A REAL BIG MIX

MIXED MEDIA ON HANDMADE PAPER

ADVANCED 3-D ART

handmade paper, vintage  dyed fabrics, machine & hand stitch, pencil, watercolor & handspun yarn

A lot of ingredients went in to this piece inspired by the works of British Artist

Deeann Rieves.

I found her on Face Book a few years ago and very much liked what she was doing at the time,

so I purchased one of her pieces.

Note: if you go to her website now she has moved in a different direction.

Anyways,

I brought the piece into my classroom last year for my students to see

 and both seniors Shreya and Jacq loved her work.

So I asked if they would like to try something similar on one of the larger handmade papers

 they were pulling at the time.

YES!!

Here are the results.

This first one was done by Jacqueline Yu.

I especially like the machine stitching she did,

and how her non-objective subject looks a bit like a cross.

or maybe a witch's profile.

And next is Shreya Sheth.

I don't know if you can see that the texture of each of their handmade papers is a bit different,

but Jacq's is smooth and Shreya's textural.

Both girls had cool deckled edges on their paper 

and of course I loved that Shreya incorporated a bit of her hand spun yarn.