MixedMedia Collage: An Exploration of Contemporary Artists, Methods, and Materials

More than 60 new mixedmedia collages by leading mixedmedia artists. Mixedmedia collage artists are embracing, unearthing, and reconstructing the flotsam and jetsam of modern life with abandon, integrating discards along with a range of art materials and novel techniques to create compelling, new works. Original, idiosyncratic, and delightful, this catchascatchcan approach to making art is inspiring and can have eyecatching results. It can also have its own set of technical challenges. MixedMedia Collage takes you into the studios of five talented mixedmedia artists: Laurinda Bedingfield, Barbara De Pirro, Paula Grasdal, Sharon McCartney, and Teesha Moore. The artists reveal their own stepbystep processes, offer tips on working with unconventional materials, and share their insights on creativity and finding inspiration. A deluxe gallery features forty neverbefore published mixedmedia pieces, complete with detailed descriptions of the work and the materials used to create them. Indepth chapters detailing the work and techniques of Laurinda Bedingfield, Barbara De Pirro, Paula Grasdal, Sharon McCartney, and Teesha Moore Techniques for making faux encaustics out of acrylic gel medium (no hot palette or wax required), adding stitching to paper, layering surfaces, finding inspiration in texts, building shrines and bookpage panels out of sewthrough interfacing, using simple printmaking techniques to create oneofakind collage materials, building threedimensional photo collages, and more A special feature by bestselling author Jennifer Crusie, who shares her thoughts on the connections between writing and collage, as well as several previously unpublished assemblages she has used as a tool to plot and edit her books A humorous essay by bestselling author Alisa Kwitney, who shares her thoughts on the connections between writing and collage, and explains why she cant use collage as a tool for anything