Mixed-Media Map Art

Friday Favorite: Masako Kubo

07/18/2014

If you are looking for the Traci Bautista StencilGirl Blog Hop, please keep scrolling down!

This Friday’s featured artist is Masako Kubo and her lovely map illustrations!
I love the combination of both whimsy and details in her maps!

Italy

Her maps are well thought out, meticulously executed and wonderfully imaginative all at once!

Cruise Map

Kamakura, Japan

Paris Gourmet Map

Read more about Yanko Tihov, her artwork and her process on her website at www.masakokubo.co.uk.

TGIF!

Mary

1 Comment

StencilGirl Artist Traci Bautista Blog Hop!

07/13/2014

121 Comments

Welcome to the StencilGirl Blog Hop featuring NEW StencilGirl Artist Traci Bautista!

For this blog hop, StencilGirl Creative Team members are showcasing Traci’s FIVE new stencils!
And Traci Bautista and Mary Beth Shaw are hopping along with us!! Yay!

You're on the right track if you just arrived from Leslie Tucker Jenison's blog.
If not, no worries! You can just follow the list below and start back at the beginning.

I had tons of fun using Traci's new Floral 1 stencil to create this art journal spread:

I began with my wide flat Colour Shaper, Matisse background colors and a cosmetic sponge to apply layers of colors and flowers and leaves:

I also had lots of fun creating my own elements to collage into my pages by stenciling with acrylics on kraft paper (left) and onto a geologic map (right):

And I painted deli paper with acrylics and added Wendy Vecchi embossing paste in white through this stencil for elements to collage, too:

I cut and tore around the edges of these flowers and pasted them onto my pages with a glue stick.

I added more acrylic paint, Pitt Pens, Sakura Glaze Pens, washi tape, more maps, some circle stickers I'd painted, a bit of stenciling with Leaf Diamond and Bold Flowers, a Georgia O'Keeffe postage stamp and a lovely quote by Henri Matisse:

Below are a few details:

Before you leave, be sure to enter the StencilGirl GIVEAWAY!
TWO lucky winners will win a complete set of Traci's FIVE new stencil designs!

What do you have to do to enter? Just leave a comment below by Sunday, July 27th at 11:59PM Central Time.
The more blogs you comment on in the blog hop, the more chances you have of winning!

Giveaway will be open a full two weeks because Mary Beth has a webinar on July 24th and her guest will be Traci!

Blog Hop Order
StencilGirl Talk
Traci Bautisa
Mary Beth Shaw
Carolyn Dube
Jennifer Priest
Gwen Lafleur
Kirsten Reed
Leslie Tucker Jenison
Mary C. Nasser – you are here!
Julia Kellogg – go here next!
Maria McGuire

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
I'd love for you to follow my blog on Feedblitz, bloglovin' or NetworkedBlogs!

Good luck winning!

Mary

121 Comments

Friday Favorite: Jo Reimer

07/11/2014

11 Comments

This Friday’s featured artist is Jo Reimer and her wonderful map paintings!

I love the way she experiments with her personal map collection to express ideas of travel, journeys, exploration and her own personal history. This was the first map work in her series:

Crossroads, acrylic and collage on paper, 22" x 17"

"Here I laid down strips of map to indicate a matrix of roads leading away from a city somewhere west, near the water," writes Jo.

She explains that one day she decided to shred an old map to see how she could use the strips creatively. "To me the strips of map are the roadway, the directions for how to get somewhere, the path I traveled, and because I make an effort to make art that refelcts my own life history and emotions it seemed appropriate to investigate where my map collection would take me on canvas and paper."

From Franklin to Oneida, acrylic and collage on paper, 22" x 17"

The painting From Franklin to Oneida "grew out of imagining the chaos of traveling through unfamiliar landscape, following a straight highway and suddenly coming upon a small town out in the middle of nowhere and wondering why people settled there in the first place."

Sea City, acrylic and collage on paper, 10" x 10"

"The design for Sea City came about from looking at an actual map of a coastal city and adding the main streets to the painting as strips of maps, though not cut from a map of this actual city."

Wetlands, acrylic and collage on board, 20" x 20"

"As I was painting Wetlands I imagined looking down on the landscape from above, seeing a small town nestled between the rivers and creeks that flow through a rather wet landscape. Homes and businesses were built above the flood plain but were controlled by the flow of water, while nearby the freeway soared above the landscape, bypassing the town altogether."

See even more Jo Reimers' series of map paintings on her art blog here!

TGIF!

Mary

11 Comments

Drawing and Painting Studio

07/07/2014

3 Comments

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on." ~Albert Einstein

It's no secret that I'm passionate about art. Another passion of mine is sharing this love of art with others!
Earlier this summer, I had very talented and enthusiastic young artists in Drawing and Painting Studio at COCA (Center of Creative Arts)! Before we even met, I knew they shared this same passion because they'd signed up to draw and paint with me for one week from 9am to 3pm everyday!

We explored color theory and color schemes, set up a still-life together, created landscapes and portraits, worked with abstraction, from imagination, kept sketchbooks and learned about inspiring artists from art history! So grateful I got to work with Lauren again; she's an amazing teaching assistant! Students ranged in age from 12-16. And we celebrated our one week of drawing and painting with an Art Show culmination!

This was such a great way to start my summer!
I've been painting everyday all day since, too!

Have a terrific week!

Mary

3 Comments

July StencilClub Inspiration

07/03/2014

0 Comments

I'm back on the StencilGirl Talk Blog today to show you what I did with the amazing July 2014 StencilClub stencils designed by Mary Beth Shaw!

Here's a sneak peek:

Be sure to go to StencilGirl Talk to see all the details!

Hope you're having a wonderful week!

Mary

Add Comment

Leftover Paint Art Journal Page!

06/30/2014

5 Comments

Just a quick tutorial to show what I created with leftover paint from making my Scribble Scratch Handwriting Notes project posted on StencilGirl Talk last week!

For that project, I made lots of monoprints with my Gelli Plate. After inking the plate each time, I cleaned the brayer off in my art journal by rolling the excess paint directly onto the pages...

When I removed Carolyn Dube's Scribble Scratch Handwriting stencil from the plate between prints, I placed the wet paint-covered stencil onto a page and closed my art journal all the way! I really liked these accidental results...all from cleaning my brayer and stencil between prints!

I grabbed my Typewriter stencil designed by Nathalie Kalbach and taped it with blue painter's tape onto one of the pages...

I pounced heavy-body white acrylic paint with a cosmetic sponge through the stencil...

Lastly, I pounced more white acrylic through parts of Daniella Woolf's Word Play stencil, rotating and moving the stencil about the page so it looked like the letters were flying off the typewriter!

I had fun combining texts without any of it being legible...leaving the focus on the lines, colors, texture and rhythm!
Have fun with your leftover paint, too, and have a great week!

Mary

5 Comments

Friday Favorite: Yanko Tihov

06/27/2014

1 Comment

This Friday’s featured artist is Yahko Tihov and his Passport Maps.
I love that in Tihov's passport series, the colors and motifs correspond with each country’s passport!

In addition, Tihov has hand-painted the texts, seals and coats of arms which adorn the passport covers with real
24 carat gold!

Read more about Yanko Tihov and his artwork on his website at yankotihov.co.uk.

TGIF!

Mary

1 Comment

Scribble Scratch Stencil Fun!

06/24/2014

1 Comment

If you are looking for the Orly Avineri StencilGirl Blog Hop, please keep scrolling down!

I'm happy to be on the StencilGirl Talk Blog today with a fun tutorial using Carolyn Dube's stencil!

Below is a sneak peek:

Be sure to go to StencilGirl Talk to see all the details and my step-by-step photo tutorial!

Hope you're having a wonderful week!

Mary

1 Comment

Orly Avineri StencilGirl Blog Hop!

06/22/2014

65 Comments

Welcome to the StencilGirl Blog Hop featuring NEW StencilGirl Artist Orly Avineri!

For this blog hop, StencilGirl Creative Team members are showcasing Orly’s FIVE new stencils!
And Orly Avinery, Mary Beth Shaw and Seth Apter are hopping along with us!! Yay!

You're on the right track if you just arrived from Carolyn Dube's blog.
If not, no worries! You can just follow the list below and start back at the beginning.

I was inspired by both Orly's journal pages and encouragement to use parts of her stencils to create our own imagery world and also Mary Beth's recent art journaling webinar, to play and layer in my own art journal with Soft Bones and A Skeletal Plot. In addition, I was inspired by Lesley Riley's interview with Orly in which Orly beautifully defines an art journal as something between a diary that you write and lock and put under your mattress for no one and a painting in a gallery that you showcase and everyone can see.

Recently, my 4-year-old puppy Bruno and I celebrated two years together, and these journal pages celebrates that!

I began with my wide flat Colour Shaper, Matisse background colors in Gum Tree Gree, Whisper Green and Antique green, and a cosmetic sponge to apply layers.

I also incorporated the Mattise background color Carolmello. The intricacies in Orly's stencils are lovely!

Next, I added acrylic paint with a small sponge dauber; if you look carefully, you can see Bruno's photo placed beneath the stencil. I love the translucency of StencilGirl stencils! Makes creating compositions so much easier being able to see what's beneath!

I used washi tape to secure Bruno's photo and added labels I had painted and written on:

Then I added Wendy Vecchi embossing paste in gold and white through both of Orly's stencils and Seth's Past Present Future stencil along with more labels I'd painted:

Lastly, I added more stickers, acrylic paint, numbers from Seth's Inside Out and Timeless stencil, Pitt Pens, Sakura Glaze Pens and some additional washi tape:

Below are a few details:

Before you leave, be sure to enter the StencilGirl GIVEAWAY!
FIVE lucky winners will win one of Orly's new stencils!

What do you have to do to enter? Just leave a comment below by Sunday, June 29th at 11:59PM Central Time.
The more blogs you comment on in the blog hop, the more chances you have of winning!

Blog Hop Order
StencilGirl Talk
Orly Avinery
Mary Beth Shaw
Seth Apter
Carolyn Dube
Mary C. Nasser – you are here!
Kirsten Reed – go here next!
Gwen Lafleur
Linda Kittmer
Janet Joehlin
Maria McGuire

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
And good luck winning!

Mary

65 Comments

StencilGirl Products and Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Hop!

06/17/2014

74 Comments

Welcome to Day TWO of the StencilGirl Products and Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Hop!

Our challenge put forth from Craft Hoarders Anonymous this week:

Spray It! Ink It! Paint It! Smear It! Emboss It!

Show us your inner mixed media diva! Use spray mists, inks, paints, modeling paste, embossing powder, pastels, chalk, and whatever messy media you can find! Let's dig into that hoard, pull out some of that "messy stuff," and use it up! There is a mess-maker hiding in all of you! Let her/him out to play!

I was thrilled to get messy again...to get out lots of supplies and make lots of layers!
For my project, I created this art journal spread:

Inspired by Mary Beth Shaw's recent art journaling webinar, I began with a paintbrush, Matisse background colors in Whisper Green and Turquoise, a cosmetic sponge, my StencilGirl Map stencil and Around the World Latitude and Around the World Longitude stencils.

Then it was time to grab my Liquitex spray paint in Iridesent Anique Gold and Turquoise and head out into the backyard! I sprayed the page edges and masked off my Latitude and Longitude Large stencil with parchment paper and sprayed and sprayed again!

Next, I added map stickers, map scrapbook paper and a postage stamp along with Pitt Pens and Golden High Flow Acrylics. Whee!

Lastly, I added more acrylics, used my Compass stencil, Map 6 stencil and Latitude and Longitude stencil, Seth Apter's Past Present Future stencil and Wendi Vecchi Embossing Paste in white, along with one of my favorite quotes about travel. Below is the finished spread:

And below are a couple details of my pages:

Hope I've inspired you to get messy with your StencilGirl stencils, too!

Before you leave, be sure to enter the StencilGirl GIVEAWAY!
StencilGirl Products will be picking FIVE winners this week – one from each day!

What do you have to do to enter? Just leave a comment below by Sunday, June 22nd at 11:59PM Central Time.
The more blogs you comment on in the blog hop, the more chances you have of winning!
The winners will be announced on the StencilGirl Facebook on Tuesday, June 24th.

Good luck! And thanks so much for visiting my blog!

Mary

74 Comments

<< Previous

About Me
I love creating mixed-media paintings layered with maps! This blog is a place for me to share my work and what inspires me. Read more here.

Follow me?

Follow this blog

Subscribe in a reader

My Map Stencils
at StencilGirl:

Interested in buying my art?

You'll always see my most recent paintings here on my blog. If you're interested in a piece, feel free to contact me. You can also find my work at Serendipity Gallery, Edwardsville Arts Center and Etsy!

Published in:

Grab my button

RSS Feed

top sites