Category: mixed media
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Cool Colors, Art Journal | 2010-2012
I created this visual journal using a 6in x 6in wire-bound hard cover Canson mixed media sketchbook. I prefer wire-bound sketchbooks because you can gently loosen the binding to remove the paper (then I just reassemble the sketchbook when the journal is finished). It’s also easier to work on several pages in one sitting when…
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Warm Colors, Art Journal | 2010-2012
This is a visual journal I created using a wire-bound hard cover Canson water media sketchbook. I recommend wire-bound sketchbooks because you can gently loosen the binding to remove the paper (then I just reassemble the sketchbook when the journal is finished). Look for a sketchbook “for” a wet medium (like painting, watercolor, mixed-media, etc.)…
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Altered Days of Fun, Art Journal | 2021-2022
This is an altered book journal created from a children’s book I found in a free little library while out walking my dogs. I love created altered book art journals because I’m already given something fun to work with on each page. If you choose to create an altered book art journal, I recommend removing…
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Altered New York, Art Journal | 2020-2021
In the year of 2021 I had the lowest and darkest bout of depression I’d ever experienced. I felt overwhelmed, discouraged, heartbroken by humanity and exhausted. In turn, the healing from that difficult place brought me into myself in a beautiful expanded loving way I didn’t think possible. We grow from struggle and suffering, but–it’s…
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‘Leaving Winter’ Art Process
Leaving Winter, 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson
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‘Finding Light’ Art Process
Finding Light, 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson Finding Light (Detail image), 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson
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‘Mysterious Midnight’ Art Process
Mysterious Midnight, 24in x 24in • 2020 • Carly Swenson
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‘Montana Autumn’ Art Process, commission
Montana Autumn, 12in x 12in • 2020 • Carly Swenson Montana Autumn (Detail images), 12in x 12in • 2020 • Carly Swenson
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‘Montana Summer’ Art Process, commission
Montana Summer, 2020, 12in x 12in • Carly Swenson Montana Summer (Detail images), 2020, 12in x 12in • Carly Swenson
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‘Montana Winter’ Art Process, commission
Montana Winter, 2020, 12in x 12in • Carly Swenson Montana Winter (Detail images), 2020, 12in x 12in • Carly Swenson
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‘Montana Spring’ Art Process, commission
Montana Spring • 12in x 12in • Mixed media collage • Carly Swenson 2020 Montana Spring (detail image)• 12in x 12in • Mixed media collage • Carly Swenson 2020
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Bloodwork: “Thousands missing and murdered…” Artist Interpretation
This is a portrait of 22-year old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind an Indigenous woman living in Fargo, North Dakota. In August of 2017, she was eight months pregnant when she was abducted and killed as her baby was taken from her womb. Fortunately, the perpetrators were apprehended and her baby survived. Her daughter is living with her…