At left is a photo a large mixed media collage on canvas board. All of the collage elements relate to the early Harry Potter novels.
The background was painted black with Maimeri’s “Brera” acrylic paint. Then, I added the paper collage elements, using Golden gel medium as an adhesive (Liquitex will work well, too).
The [...]

At left, I’ve covered most of a traditional Ouija board with torn paper embellishments. I selected individual letters, plus useful and whimsical phrases, to use in divination.
The biggest letters generally came from the oversized fashion magazine, W. The phrases came from a variety of sources, but largely fashion and travel magazines.
(In-flight magazines often [...]

Altered Ouija Board - Egyptian (private collection)

This is a traditional Ouija board, altered to include elements from ancient Egypt. My inspiration was The Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
[left] A fake tarantula is perched on the platen.It is furry and realistic looking.The platen was painted gold, and embellished with jewels and beads, including [...]

From my 2001 Artfest workshop notes
Vague guidelines
Version #1: Words on bead necklace thingies
Select words that you like. Cut them out.
You can cut just around the word so the foam board sticks out around it, OR you can cut the word to size including borders to cover the foam board. Stick the [...]

Homage to Dr. John
mixed media collage by Aisling D’Art
This is a collage to honor the music of Dr. John, aka Mac Rebbenack. It is the art that I used for the Homage to Music card deck exchange, hosted by Red Dog Scott.
Dr. John is probably my favorite musician, since I first heard his [...]

 
How to create a Batragon - or any other mixed-images creature…
For this image–created for the Bestiary Deck exchange–I used the Dover book, “Old-Fashioned Animal Cuts” (out-of-print in 2007) and Adobe Photoshop.
I knew that I wanted a beast that would mix elements of a bat and a dragon. I was also inspired by [...]

Many of us are always looking for new, better, and innovative ways to include images in our art.
After Artfest 2002, there was a lot of buzz about using gin as the alcohol of choice, for image transfers to polymer clay. (The subject came up during one of my classes, when I objected [...]

Many of us are always looking for new, better, and innovative ways to include images in our art.
After Artfest 2002, there was a lot of buzz about using gin as the alcohol of choice, for image transfers to polymer clay. (The subject came up during one of my classes, when I objected to the [...]

This started as a plastic bug that I purchased at a rubber stamp store. Since the July/Aug 2000 issue of Somerset Studio, where embellished plastic lizards were made into brooches (on page 12)… well, these critters have been popular.However, when I tried wrapping a painted plastic bug with [...]