Tag: artist tools
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The Reluctant Stitcher Falls in Love with her Sewing Machine
When I wrote my last blog post, at the end of July, I’d admitted temporary defeat with my sewing machine and was waiting more or less patiently for a one-to-one workshop booked with Hobbycraft. The workshop was basically make or break: if I remained frustrated and clueless at the end of that, I’d put the…
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A Room of One’s Own
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” (Virginia Woolf) Right? Well, not necessarily. My writing days are over, but when I did consider myself primarily a writer I did my best work when I didn’t have a room of my own. When, in fact, I…
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Image Transfer Techniques
Helen Kitson, 2022 : a piece featuring an acetone image transfer on a page from a vintage music book In my work I like to use original papers rather than copies, but there will be times when you want to incorporate an original image that feels too special to use. Generally, I would say don’t…
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My Mixed Media Toolkit
When I started working with mixed media collage, I bought everything I could lay my hands on, spending a small fortune on every shiny and fun thing, every product mentioned in books (and blog posts!), and inevitably found that I used only a handful of these supplies on a regular basis. To an extent I…
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