It’s been five weeks of leading the Let Loose with Mixed Media workshop in collaboration with Alexandra Stapleton-Smith of Maker Forte and I am so enthused and inspired by the variety of tags people are producing as they discover (or re-discover) their inner artist.
We have two more weeks to go before our tag books are complete and I can share the final flip through of my project, but in the meantime I wanted to share this quick video demonstrating some of the techniques I’ve been sharing with workshop attendees.
The tag backgrounds you see here were made using a gel plate and are heavily textured with pastes and gels. There’s a lot of depth owing to the subtle variations in color and the play between different textural layers.
This is, of course, just a small peek into how various different elements can be corralled together to create a cohesive piece. How you arrive at those decisions, what prompts specific choices at specific steps in the journey and how you synthesize all of it into a bigger narrative — those are all addressed in this seven-week workshop.
Even though this isn’t a detailed process video, I hope it still gives you some inspiration and ideas to create a multi-dimensional mixed media piece.
If you’re interested in detailed instructional videos with voiceovers or live sessions on creating powerful, layered mixed media tags, please let me know in the comments.
Supplies used:
— Tags from Maker Forte
— Lace
— Gel Plate
— Color Hive Inks from Maker Forte
— Texture paste from Ranger Ink
— Grit paste from Ranger Ink
— Ground Espresso Distress Oxide
— Blending tool
— Acrylic Inks
— Dictionary paper
— Karin BrushMarker Pro
— Black Derwent Water-Soluble Pencil
— White Acrylic Ink
— Fabritak Permanent Adhesive
— Brads
— Wood Buttons
— Washi Tape
— White gel pen
Gorgeous tags Mansi, they sure have a lot of depth and layers.
Great inspirational video.
Thank you so much for sharing, stay safe and have a wonderful day.