Mariah Likes Art.: Mixed Media lovin.

Throughout my blog I will discuss a certain medium in which I am interested in, research, discuss, and then try something new myself within that medium.

I have always had a love with mixed media and creating art with different elements of mediums. You can create so many different and interesting things by combining all of these things. I feel as though it's the ultimate creativity. I am currently working on a body of work where I am applying three different mediums into my work. The hardest part of Mixed Media is how are these things going to react within one another and how are they going to as a concept as well.

This amazing body of work has just stolen my heart.

Carne Griffiths is a UK artist that works with ink, tea, and alcohol.

I love all of the color within his pieces of work, the low saturation of the colors too is also very appealing to me. Not only does he have a large array of colors, he also has a lot of details within his work with lines and form. He uses different objects within his work such as flowers and what appears to me as feathers.

Griffiths studies different elements within his work such as form of human and geometric shape (Griffiths) He discribes his work as "dreamlike" (Griffiths) He uses alcohol in his work because it gives the color a different affect rather than water would. (Lauren) This is a great example as to how working with mixed media can affect your work in many different ways. I feel as though it's a lot of trial and error.

His etsy page has some pretty affordable work as well. Espeically his postcards where you can get a variety of his pieces of work.