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Gallery
Featured Artist: Lenna Andrews
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Lenna |
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Introduction
My name is Lenna
Andrews and I live in Northern Connecticut with my husband Steven Deming
and our two dogs. When we aren’t busy working on collaborative art
projects, Steven and I love taking our dogs for a run up the hill through
the beautiful woods behind our home, so inspiring! We also really love
visiting his family’s property on rural Wolfe Island, located in Ontario,
Canada, right on the St. Lawrence River.
I am a published
mixed-media artist and instructor who loves ARTchix Studio products. In
fact, I created so much ARTchix art, that Helga and James offered me the
job of representing their company! I teach classes based on ARTchix
products, and offer these products wholesale to the stores I teach at.
What fun!
Growing up, I was
encouraged to take art and dance classes and I have been considered
‘creative’ all of my life. I have done many different things, but doing
mixed media art is where I am most happiest creating. ARTchix Studio
products are so varied, interesting, and easy to work with, no wonder I
reach for them so often! I enjoy that Helga and James are always coming up
with wonderful new products and are so good about their customer service.
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Lenna's Top 5
ARTchix Products
1.
Velvet leaves
2.
Her Wish
transparency sheet
3. Fabric Goodie Bag
no longer available
4.
Victorian Birds
no longer available
5.
Metal Filigree
Frames
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Lenna's Websites
http://www.creativelenna.com
http://www.picturetrail.com
/lennastamp
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Artwork #1: Collage on canvas board |
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Title I Am My
Art
ARTchix Products
Gold Medieval Borders
Velvet Leaves - Pink/ Moss
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Instructions
1.
Start
by painting your canvas with a couple of complimentary colors of
acrylic paint. Let dry.
2. Choose
a large ARTchix Studio image like the woman from a
collage sheet
and leave an edge of the black frame
showing when you cut it out. Apply it to the canvas with gel medium.
3. Pick out a favorite quote and print it out onto paper using your
ink jet printer. Add that to the canvas with gel medium.
4. Add
Gold Borders to the top, and a
cancelled postage stamp.
5. Use
permanent ink and word stamps to stamp on top of the canvas and the
image.
6. Coat some black string with gel medium and apply randomly to the
canvas.
7. Take the stem of
Velvet Leaves and wrap it
around a skewer until it curls. Then use Goop Glue or some other
strong glue to attach the velvet leaves to the canvas, on top of the
central image.
8. Add birch bark to the bottom of the
canvas with Goop Glue. Stand back and admire!
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Artwork #2: Collage on canvas board |
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Title What If?
ARTchix Products
Classic Nudes collage sheet
Seaside Cuties collage sheet
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Instructions
1.
Paint
a canvas board with two or more colors of acrylic paint. Make this a
watery wash of paint.
2. While it is wet, sprinkle baking soda on top of the paint wash.
Let it dry naturally or speed up the drying process after the
reaction has taken place, with a heat gun.
3. Cut
out ARTchix Studio images like the ones from the
Classic Nudes and
Seaside Cuties collage sheet
so only the figure remains. Use glue or
gel medium to attach them to your canvas.
4. Add bits of gold paper to the canvas with gel medium or glue.
5. Add a bit of plastic mesh across the middle of the canvas like a
net.
6. Stamp
a word or two with permanent ink.
7. Add
ribbon around the edge of the
collage like a frame, and add a small string of beads and you are
done!
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Artwork #3: Collage on canvas paper |
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Title Men are
from Mars, Women are from Venus
ARTchix Products
collage sheet |
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Instructions
1.
Paint
a piece of canvas paper with watered down acrylic paints; use more
than one color. Let this dry naturally or use a heat gun to speed up
the drying.
2. Pull a paper napkin apart so just one thin layer remains, and
apply it to the canvas. Put gel medium on the canvas first, then lay
the paper napkin over and smooth.
3. Apply the central image from a
collage sheet
to the canvas with gel medium.
4. Cut
out appropriate words for your theme from an old book page and also
apply to your canvas with gel medium.
5. Use
Ranger’s Adirondack Color Wash in Butterscotch to spritz over the
collage.
6. Add Krylon’s 14K Gold Leaf pen to add a frame around the image
and the entire collage. Enjoy!
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Artwork #4: Book |
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Title
Untitled
ARTchix Products
Gold Borders
La Belle Epoque collage sheet
Playful Nudes transparency sheet
ARTchix Free Gift sticker |
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Instructions
I learned
how to make this Double Needle Coptic bound book in a class I took
with Kelly Kilmer; a fabulous teacher! For the cover of the book I
used a fun image my friend, Clarissa, had sent me. I surrounded it
with A gold border and
filigree stars; using
Tacky Glue to attach the paper borders and Goop Glue to attach the
metal stars.
For the
inside pages I simply used a number of ARTchix Studio images of
beautiful women like the ones from the
La Belle Epoque collage sheet
and Playful Nudes transparency sheet, complimented by some kind of wash of Twinkling
H2O’s on the same page. The page with the “I love ARTchix Studio”
sticker also sports a picture of me as a young girl on the opposite
page. Well . . . it’s true, I do love ARTchix Studio! |
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