Artangel

There are so many ways to add beautiful and interesting textures to your mixed media work! In this tutorial I'll show you some methods using materials you probably already have around the house.
1. Tissue Paper
This technique works with any sort of tissue paper - even loo roll! Simply crumple up the sheet of tissue and glue it to your paper or canvas. Let it crease as much as you want; the more creases, the more lovely texture!...

We've had some lovely sunny days here recently (it doesn't always rain in Manchester!) so I took the chance to make some cyanotypes...
I did a short cyanotype course a couple of years ago but this was my first attempt at home.
Cyanotype is a type of photographic process that uses special chemicals that react with sunlight. It's also known as blueprint because of the beautiful deep blue colours it produces. It's a very old technique, invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842....

It's been a while since I posted here. I've still been creating, but work and life appear to have got in the way of blogging about it!
So, I'll start by sharing some things I've been working on lately...
Little textile & paper pieces...the image in the one above is an old family photo transferred to fabric (that's my dad on the far right!)...

I'm a little late to the party, but I've bought some plain white index cards...
...and have committed to the annual Daisy Yellow Index-Card-A-Day challenge!
Anyone is welcome to join in - the idea is simply to create something - anything - on a standard index card every day until 31st July....