Author: lauramchugh

I’m helping my friends at Bad Art Night learn how to do interesting backgrounds they can use in their mixed-media pieces – whether it is an altered card, journal page, large painting, or a box.

It’s great having a public blog (which feels similar to being a featured columnist). Patch Half Moon Bay has been great to invite me to participate in their community forums so I am blogging about art and creativity, and life!

Next week, my blog post will be about creating an interesting focal point.

Enjoy.

We got a good little plug on HMB Patch this morning with a brief review of last night’s Bad Art Night activities. We have a good, consistent group showing up and it is truly the light of my life* to have everyone in my space, creating.

*after my kids, of course.

I am continuing with the digital image transfers. These I did during the week or maybe on Friday with Nancy before Bad Art Night really started.

In Bad Art Night, I worked them over with watercolor (flower) and collage (Starter Buddha). I really hated the Buddha one before I started and a new BAN person, Linda, suggested turning it upside down. So I did! And added the printed word and the chandelier and voila! The bad art became a good and inspirational background.

I visited the Recology Transfer Station (San Francisco’s “dump”) last Saturday. The rest of the weekend turned into kind of a personal train wreck, but Saturday afternoon was a blast.

Recology has an Artist in Residence program that I am going to apply to for 2012.

While on the tour, I took a bunch of photos, which you can see on my travel blog here.

This one is a composite of a photo and some Photoshop CS5 fun.

Thanks to my friend Charie from Bad Art Night, I’m now up and running doing digital image prints. She is such a doll – full of good energy and so helpful with all the tips and tricks.

She turned me on to Bonny Pierce Lhotka’s new book – Digital Atelier Studio Series, or something like that. I did these image transfers using the special transparencies and hand sanitizer.

Then, I did these using hand sanitizer and regular old photo paper with the ink jet printer.

I’m loving it!