Mixed Media Art - What is it?

Artplace Is About Very Specific Combinations
That Work Together To Creat Amazing Art

The key to our art is based on textile hardeners.

This versatile medium will adhere to almost anything except plastic. It dries to very hard surface. It will maintain it pre-cured shape.

Imagine combining wood, metal, glass, fabric, grass, horse hair, leather, paper, foam, Now that is mixed media!

Textile hardeners will soak into natural fibers creating a solid unit between the fibers. Think about how concrete fills the spaces between gravel forming the loose stones into a super hard single unit. This is similar to what textile hardeners do to natural fibers.

Except it goes one step further. It actually soaks into the fiber itself to lock it together even more than concrete mixed with gravel.

Learn more about Paverpol and Powertex textile hardeners.

Mixed media is fast and easy to learn.

Mediums such as clay require a very good understanding of the properties of the specific clay that is being used. Drying, shaping, firing, glazing, and many other factors determine the success or failure of a clay creation.

Learn about a nor-fire, non-shrinking clay - Magic Sculpt and Apoxie Sculpt

Oil and acrylic painting requires that you conquer the medium, the tools, and the characteristics of the surface that you are painting on. This may take years to develop.

Mixed media is often created using only your hands. These are tools that you have already learned to use extremely well.

Assemblage or collage is usually a part of 3-d creations. This allows you to use the qualities of the materials themselves rather than having to create those qualities from scratch.

Texture is a major part of mixed media. Texture can be created with tools, additives, and choice of materials. It can also be created by using color to accent the hidden or subtle textures of the materials.

This combination not only shortens the learning curve, but tremendously speeds up the creation time.

Is this really fine art?

Fine art is not types of mediums or styles of painting. Fine art is determined by the content, the quality of execution, and the visual and emotional success of the finished work.

Fine art has been created out of most any material and method that you can imagine.