Although I love to make textile and fabric art using my PhotoArt images printed onto fabric, one of my favorite ways to use my digital designs is for a more practical application – to create unique bags and purses. Which is one of the reasons I love bags with flaps. Simply structured flaps are the […]
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Keeping an art journal has many advantages. It’s a great way to express your thoughts and feelings using words and images, and also a great way to practice new art and mixed media techniques. Because the pages are small, you can often make a page in only a short amount of time. I find making
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I don’t think you can improve on the colors of nature, but if you really wanted to … well it’s quite easy.I often marvel at the beautiful colors of some of the photos I see and it’s extraordinarily easy to change those colors in Photoshop CC and Photoshop Elements – with only a couple of
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As I was beginning work on a new photo art project the other day, I was looking around for a Photoshop technique that would allow me to “hand paint” part of my photo. Photoshop is not really designed to be a painting program and although I did find several tutorials that demonstrated how to paint
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Making mixed media textures using pastes, gels, and other textural elements is one of my favorite things to do. It’s more like fun playtime than work. I use some of these textures in my mixed media artwork, but mostly I like to transform them into digital form and use them in my PhotoArt. Converting your
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Printing on fabric using an inkjet printer is one of my favorite ways to transfer images to fabric. It’s easy, fun and best of all, you can print your own artwork onto fabric and then use in your sewing projects and textile art! It’s quite easy to print images onto fabric and get quite good
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