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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread it one of the weeks where we have a change and look at a specific topic , this week it Mixed Media Artwork. This is an area of art that I know very little about, there are some excellent artists on POL who produce the most beautiful mixed media  artwork.  I always enjoy seeing their work bit I honestly would not know where to start , we will feature sone of out artists throughout the week , I hope you will add some to the thread . I’ve started  with three artists I found on line , all new to me but I’m sure some of you will know of them . My first choice is most appropriate as he is credited with being one of the pioneers. Kurt Shwitters  1887 - 1948. Know for pioneering collage with found objects and ephemeral materials. Njideka Akunyiti Crosby 1983 -  Combines painting with collage to create intricate figurative scenes. Jenna Douglas  Fuses collage with masking and painting .

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I’ve recently come across this artist, Juliette Belmonte, who creates beautiful portraits in mixed media - this one incorporates sheet music and lace among other things.

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Lewis Cooper

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I suppose mixed media can mean many things, I read somewhere that using two different mediums together makes mixed media.  By that measure, pen and wash is mixed media.  For our purposes  here I'm assuming we mean more than that.  As with most forms of art, there's plenty of mixed media I admire and some that does nothing for me at all.   Here's one I find visually interesting, the art comes from many sources, mostly magazines etc.  Bits of this and that are assembled into a picture.  Sometimes done by hand, other times  digitally.  Small decorative pieces are made, plus vast murals.  Handiedan is the name... Nearly forgot to mention this Dan isn’t a bloke, she’s a Dutch artist from Amsterdam, also works in the USA.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I realise that we are a painting site but thought it would be interesting to look at artist who work in different mediums and different ways.  To me it’s art in a very different style by art nonetheless.  Cassandra Dias , embroidery artist. Jiannan Wu mini sculptures  Ale Rambar work in layers paper to firn his artwork.
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Lewis Cooper

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Glad you posted these Paul, well done for digging them out.  Really creative and skillful work.  Mixed media artists sometimes use objects glued to their board, it makes for an interesting image (I think). Don't the artist...from a site where no info given.

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As Paul has introduced artwork in different mediums rather than mixed media, here are a couple more -

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Wow some brilliant artwork in this thread, amazing.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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More mixed media , selected by Googling mixed media. I.  2 Mr Warrens Art. 3&4 Chess 5 I don’t know who the artist is , posted as I particularly like this one

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Lewis Cooper

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Another good selection.  I see we both like your 2nd post above, I’d already posted earlier but I hadn’t known the artist.  Impossible to avoid duplications like this, I only mention it because a few years back I thought about doing something similar.  I’d just cleared out my garage and put some oddments to one side to attempt such a picture.  Old bits I’d kept ‘in case they might came in handy’.  They seldom do. Metal brackets, old fancy hanging basket brackets, bits of garden hose connectors etc, a couple of never used rusty spanners, oddments that I’d forgotten what they were for, etc, etc.  I even thought of buying a broken clock from a junk shop, so that I could use the gear wheels.  Nothing came of it.  After some time I binned the lot.  It would have taken some heavy duty glue to fix that lot on a board.  I still like the idea, maybe I’ll start a new box for suitable junk.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Lew I hadn’t noticed the duplicate, my youngest daughter use a lot of old watch and clock parts in a piece that she did for her GCE . Her art teacher who was a actually a trained artist, don’t find them in schools nowadays, like it so much he bought it from her after the exams were over. 
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Good for her.  Having her teacher actually buy the work is about the most rock solid commendation you can get.
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