Collage – Mike Deakin Art

Posted on 14/01/202014/01/2020 by Mike — Leave a comment

Page 5 – Volume of the Dolls “Love This Life”

Today it’s heavy rain and strong winds outside my window, so I really don’t want to venture outside for any reason at all. I’d much rather stay inside where it’s warm and cozy and create an art journal page in my Volume of the Dolls with some happy and bright colours, with some Tim Holtz paper dolls and a little grunge and distress thrown in for good measure!

The two stencils I’ve used in this double page spread are my two new designs for January. Links can be found below!

To watch the entire creation process from start to finish of my double page art journal spread, simply click on the YouTube link.

Posted on 09/01/202009/01/2020 by Mike — Leave a comment

Page 4 – Volume of the Dolls – “Family”

For today’s page I wanted to create another double page spread in my new altered book the Volume of the Dolls which, if you haven’t seen it already, is where I’m trying to use up some of the small mountain of die cut paper dolls from Tim Holtz Idea-ology range. Over the past few years I’ve amassed a fair few of these little gems and this new/old altered book seemed a good place to create a themed piece of interactive artwork!

If you missed the video where I created and altered the book, you can watch it by clicking the YouTube link below.

To watch how I created this double page spread in the book, you can click the YouTube link below.

Posted on 19/11/201919/11/2019 by Mike — 1 Comment

More Vintage Collage Christmas Card Digi Downloads Sets

I’ve received a few kind messages from happy viewers and customers who have asked me to design and put together some more vintage collage Christmas card making digi kits….I’m more than happy to oblige! Here are three more to add to the collection!

You can find both the new set (No2) and the original set (No1) on my website shop by clicking the links below.

To watch how I put these three new Christmas card kits together, click the YouTube link below!

Posted on 11/07/201911/07/2019 by Mike — Leave a comment

“Heat” – Mission: Inspiration – July 2019

I’m a little behind this month with my Mission: Inspiration art journal page project due to technical issues with my old video camera…luckily it seems to be playing nice – which is a little annoying as I’ve just ordered a new one from Amazon!

So the prompts for July can be found below – please feel free to download and use as you wish!

To watch how I created my page from start to finish using this month’s prompts, click the YouTube link below!

If you’d like to join me and the nearly 4000 other artistic people who regularly play along with our monthly art challenges, click the Facebook group link below!