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Five – Mixed Media Collage

Robin Schar — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:03:13 +0000

Mixed Media Collage – 8×10 canvas with cut-out shadowbox, metal house number, napkins, paint chips, pen, ink, glass plates, magazine paper, acrylic paint, vintage photo and coin. Made a lot of mistakes but I’m sure having fun making them lol! (practice practice practice)

Warmth from Within – ATC

Robin Schar — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:57:18 +0000

Created for one of the members at the ADF artisan ATC exchange group. Distressed watercolor paper with walnut ink, navigation symbol from old map, white liquid ink, pencil, metal gears, pad ink, small rhinestone and printed text.

Fabric Art

Robin Schar — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:28:55 +0000

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Tried my hand with the sewing machine (yeah, I know… lol) and so far I’ve been able to do a few things I can share with you. I’ve also joined two fabric art groups that exchange fabric postcards through the mail.. hoping to get past the “I think I can” stage… it’s great fun! I’m also working on a set of “captured fairy” bottles for an upcoming craft fair to benefit my woman’s group. If you’d like to trade fabric art with me (4×4 or 5×5 inch, mixed media) I’d love to hear from you… just click “contact” button and send a note. Cheers and happy altered art-ing :)

(That green sleeve you see there is called a coffee cozy, it’s used as a sleeve for Starbucks coffee cups instead of the usual paper ones. Less for the landfills and much cuter, too)

“Weird” Art?

Robin Schar — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:41:37 +0000

For those of you who like recycled art, altered art, mixed media collage using found treasures, etc etc AND for those of us that get to experience all of the strange questions (“what kind of art is THAT?”… blank stares and “oh my” facial expressions from friends and relatives – my mom actually sent me email saying “it’s so original” on one of my best pieces… ouch!) here’s a one-up for us. I’ll count this article as a proverbial feather in my cap so to speak…. altered art, recycled art, found treasures and every other catch phrase that’s been thrown around to describe exactly what kind of art we’re trying to do is being celebrated everywhere. Take a look at some of these pieces of art by very famous artists, and yes they ARE very good! So excited to see so many people taking part of something so fun to do. I think I’ll pass this article on to mom, too

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/12/non-trashy-recycled-and-trash-art/