Art I made that I'm proud of number one

[musekicker]

I'm terrible at taking pictures of my art. Both in the actual act of doing so and remembering to do so. Another thing I want to work on getting better at in the coming year. That said, I do want to occasionally shares some pictures of pieces I've done that I do have pictures of and am proud of.

My stuff this year leaned more towards mixed media collages style art. Mostly little scenes though I did do some abstract. Part of my branching out with style/materials was this piece

Fun fact, the grass part are made of rolled up paper tubes I made from old medication bags from the pharmacy, painted green. And The textured sky is pieces of left over mixed media paper glued down and painted blue. I really love running my hands over this piece.

Comments

[sankseas]

Aw, that's great!! I really love the textures & layering, plus those colors are nice :D

Mixed media is so cool... I want to try it sometime too. Hope you have fun branching out & trying new stuff!!

[musekicker]

Thank you! I'm really happy you're loving my favorite elements about the piece too. And I love some bright colors. Though I have to make sure with big abstract collage pieces like this I wanted to make sure there were lighter color areas for the eye to kind of rest. Which, that's why there are the blue bars.

I say go for it! The fun thing about mixed media is that you can get very creative with what materials you use and how you use them. Like, some of the paper I use is old envelope paper that I cut up and color in, mark, or sometimes there is a fun design inside the envelope and I use that.

Let me know if you do experiment with mixed media. I'd love to see what you come up with.

[sankseas]

I think your color are good, yeah! And that kind of "recycling" materials in mixed media pieces is so neat :'D

Thanks for the encouragement - I'll post any experiments I do :)