tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53262172410701560842024-02-20T03:02:05.339+11:00Karens Mosaics Im back into Mosaics after a 10 year gap and discovered a true love of this art form. I've also found this has helped me through a very dark patch in my life and now I've finally found what I was always meant to be doing. Its Therapy with a Capital T and i'm loving every part of it. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11905074653841182908noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326217241070156084.post-40296234197393930892014-01-22T09:49:00.001+11:002014-01-22T09:49:05.926+11:00Changing my mind lol <div style="text-align: center;">
They do say its a woman's prerogative to change her mind, and as you know I do that quite a lot lol </div>
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So now im amping this blog back up again and deleting the other new one as I wasn't really happy with it. I know I should go over to wordpress I have so much trouble logging in its very frustrating so I've decided to get this old one back up and running for now. sorry to keep chopping and changing but I like to stay with the familiar lol </div>
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So this will have another and final name change and my other new one will be deleted, I wont be changing again after this is back up and running, so no more running a muck from me haha </div>
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Thanks everyone for your patients and i'll be uploading pics of my mosaic adventures shortly </div>
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Happy Days !!!!!! </div>
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Unfortunately i'll be closing this blog shortly, we've had a bad year health wise, my Hubby was diagnosed with a lung disease early in the year but i'm happy to say he's doing really well now, I on the other hand kind of fell in a heap, crashed and burned big time. Im finally coming out of it and realised that what I was always searching for was a different kind of art form that felt and fibre related. Thankyou so much Ruth , Ann and Zed for all your patient and understanding, I wont go into to much more here as I've sent you all a letter xoxo </div>
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So now I've gone back to an old Love, and that's mosaics, in my dark times my very close friend suggested we play around a bit, and as I hadn't done any of this for about 10 years I thought id give it a go mainly to make my friend happy lol . Sure enough I felt the passion kicking back in and I now realise that this is what im meant to be doing</div>
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Thankyou so much to my followers on here, I really appreciate you all and please feel free to join me on my new blog lol I'll re-follow you all over there, i'll be here at <a href="http://karensmosaicing.blogspot.com.au/">http://karensmosaicing.blogspot.com.au/</a> if you'd like to see what I've been doing and keep in touch. </div>
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I'll leave you a pic of one of my latest and I really hope to see you at my new blog </div>
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She's all glass with beading on her eyes and lips and I love her xoxo <br />
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but a run down of it is a mixed media piece and I've kicked it off with my latest project which is on canvas and includes, felt, wire, fabric, silk, paints, paverpol, gesso and modelling paste. Im really happy with the way it turned out, If you'd like to be involved in our challenges then please feel free to come along and join in by clicking the above link.</div>
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This is the background i started with, using acrylic paints in Burnt Umber, Orange Yellow, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White, i used a credit card to apply the paint and after playing around with it for a while i was quite liking it, i've never used the card before and i did enjoy that. <br />
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I was really going for texture mainly and i'm dissapointed that i think i might have to toss it. Being a learner in mixed media is quite frustrating as everything i try to learn is on-line due to , work, family,location. I would really appreciate any help i can get and if i do have to let it go then i'll miss her face lol <br />
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this is the first one of these I've attempted and I do love it, I used lots of bits and bobs of what I had, found, scrounged and I even made the paper flower, I wanted a couple little flourishes so cut them from card, ( cant you tell) lol and i'm still waiting for the postman with my orders !! <br />
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So this is a gift for our friends daughter who is turning 21 this weekend and I know she loves handmade anything so I wanted to really give this a go. I cut up the invitation which is a picture of her when she was about 8 , she is such a gorgeous girl and I really wanted to make her something with meaning that she could keep. I've had so much fun in making this although I did get a bit scared to actually start glueing things down, then thought, oh just get on with it and see how it turns out, so I did and cant wait to get into the next one !!! <br />
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So now i decided that i really wanted to make a piece for our friends daughter who is turning 21, i started out with some crinkled up tissue paper , netting from a garlic bag, modelling paste, im only working with what i have lol , acrylic paints and i cut her picture from the invitation , i'm just playing with placement. </div>
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Well I finally finished Rainy's Art Journal for her and I hope she likes it, I also hope that it will inspire her to pick up those pencils and paints and get moving on her Art Work. I probably fiddled around with this way to long but i'm pretty happy with the finished book. I know you cant see in the pic but there's lots of the foil poking through that in person, does look pretty cool. I'm hoping to pass this on to her this weekend. </div>
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Next I worked on another mixed media piece and remember that i'm only just practising right now but I am getting quite eager to do one that has some meaning next. I like the colors in this one and I guess it doesn't matter which way is up lol </div>
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This is another Journal cover for my friend Mary who needs something to record her dreams in. this one has to be nice and bright cause Mary Definitely is lol Im looking forward to seeing how this one comes together </div>
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This is a journal that im making for a friend in the hope of inspiring her to pick up her paint brushes and pencils and get stuck into some art. <br />
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Its about the size of A4 and has nice strong art paper inside, I've attached lots of bits and pieces to it, rolled up foil to spell her name Rainy, some dried flowers and beads and i cut a strip off a twine place matt to run accross the centre. Covered the whole front and back with foil attaching with paverpol and some pva glue, Now i'll paint, rub and sand and coat it in an aging medium then rub back until i get the effect i'm after. Really liking it so far. <br />
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I just hope it turns out nicely and that she likes it enough to get stuck in to do some art work !!! </div>
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These are the pieces just covered in paint, i actually forgot to take a pic before that when they were completely covered in kitchen foil, so anyway i was just using random colors so i could see what it would do and where i was going and in no particular pattern or anything <br />
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Once the paint was dry then i brushed on quiet a heavy coat of shoe polish and let dry a bit, then wiped off with a dry cloth. They've both got 2 coats. When he used the tar you wipe off with white spirits and also you can spritz the spirits on to leave a very cool effect, as i didnt use that its ended up like this. I've used rolled up pieces of foil, netting from a garlic bag, hand spun yarn, bottles tops and a key.</div>
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This one is mainly rolled up foil with flat pieces of foil, yarn and very small shells.</div>
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Not sure i really like them much and at the moment there not sealed with a varnish. I might give it another go and maybe even just use burnt umber paint to age it. Shoe polish is very messy but it was fun to make anyway </div>
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The weather here has been so hot for so long its taking its toll, i never say this but now that its supposed to be Autumn can we please have some Autumn weather and get away from all this heat lol <br />
Its been hard to get into much with it being so hot but i have been working on some mixed media with foil and i'll put some pics up shortly<br />
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Zed from <a href="http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com.au/">http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com.au/</a> has created a brilliant new e-book called Beyond Nuno, this book is beautiful and packed full of infomation, she is having a give away and i apologise for not giving you more notice but i couldnt access my blog till now ! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then i was looking around the web for more uses for Gesso and well, one thing let to another and i was hooked on abstract painting, i really want to have a play around with that but in the mean time i found an excellent tutorial on painting so of course i had to have a go. One of the artist's that i was watching is Skye Taylor, he does some awesome work but also has lots of video's, with tips and ideas', one of the main things he said ( that i heard) was Dont be afraid ! so i wasnt and i jumped in lol </span><br />
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OOOO its been so long since i've posted, life, family, Christmas, Holidays did get in the way !!!</div>
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Ruth wanted us to join in on this challenge for the first quarter and at first i laughed and thought , No Way can i do that lol but it did get me thinking a lot and i knew i needed a change of pace. So i decided to play with some books, i've NEVER been much into Altered Books but playing with these has changed my mind :) I"m still playing with lots of fibre, as there made with, silk, silk paper, beads, threads, sari silks and ribbons, paint , paverpol, shima sticks, felt and other light weight materials. Basically anything i can get my hands on :) </div>
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So here are a few that i've made, i will only improve as i go along but i'm thoroughly enjoying the fact that i can have a few on the go at once, there all done in different stages so there's lots of drying time in between to work on another one so they do take a couple of days all up. </div>
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This one is using paint and Tyvek, i wanted to see how it melted down around the pages, i might have overdone it here but i think the tyvek will make great lace work or even cobwebs ! </div>
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Hi Everyone, I just put this post on the forum so thought i'd put it here to, I tried to get in some felting this week, I didn’t get as much accomplished as I would have liked but at least I managed a few things, We had such a beautiful sunny day the other day that I felt like felting some flowers <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /> </div>
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I had a fair bit of trouble with the first smaller one getting the stem attached, it took me an episode of NCIS of rubbing and squishing with lots of soap to actually get the flower head and stem firmly attached. Then with the larger one I decided to do the stem and large flower as a whole which seemed to work so much better, I also made another smaller flower head and inserted it in the centre by needle felting it together, there both pretty strong now and I’m fairly happy though I know I can do better.</div>
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I really wanted to make a vessel of some sort to so off I started again, I cut a resist and was thinking I’d do an enclosed one and then cut and see whats underneath, mmmmm first of all the shape was all wrong again, it was more bag shape than vessel shaped, well to me anyway</div>
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I wasn’t really sure how many layers to do so I started with 3 layers of white Romney, ( sorry I forgot to take a pic of that part) then added a layer of purple BFL –merino</div>
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So now I didn’t much like it as a vessel, as I said the shape is wrong and I’ve already cut the top off and tried to get it in the shape I want but of course it just wanted to look more like a sack than anything else :) and once again I didn’t take a pic of trying to get that shape, so after much bravery I cut more and more and now I’ve ended up with what will be a small bag but Ill have to make a new handle and mess around with it way more than I wanted. Having said that I’m really enjoying playing around with it and we’ll just have to wait and see how it turns out. Don’t be shocked but this is what I have to play with now and I do have more of an idea of what the finished piece will look like but it’ll take me a couple more days to finished it off<br />
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Hi everyone, i just put a new post up on the forum with my latest pieces inspired by Heather @ Woollove-functional fiber</div>
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I love the way Heather made her new journal covers, all in one piece and not stitched together so had to have a go. Yes i made a few mistakes but im still very happy with how they turned out, especially this first one, not so much the second one :) </div>
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I added in a slim resist to make a pen pocket , you can just see the plastic sticking out of the center top ( i thought that was clever) and a way to always have a pen with the note book, also some tribute orange ( her favorite color) :)</div>
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