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Gallery
Featured Artist: Caryl Hoobler
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Caryl |
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Introduction
I am I am a mixed media/ portrait artist living in
Bloomington, Illinois. I am the mother of two, with one sweet grandbaby
and another due this summer. I reside in a lovely Victorian home with my
husband and our big crazy tabby cat Kramer. I work full-time for HUD
(Housing and Urban Development) but wish I could devote my time solely
to art.
I have always loved to draw, and my first memories of collage are as a
child, cutting heads out of Tiger Beat magazine and "hiding" them in my
sister's posters just to see if she would notice! I have loved to cut
things apart and "rebuild" them ever since.
For the most part, art was pushed aside while I raised my girls, but now
that they are out of the house, I find I am free to explore art anywhere
it takes me. I have been commissioned for many portraits, however, I
find mixed media allows me more freedom to express my soul.
When not in my art room, I love to read (I am always trying to squeeze
one more book in my library!), play with my grandbaby, and travel with
my husband.
I have been published in Somerset Studio, Stampington's Gallery, The
Stamper's Sampler, Stampington's Transparent Art, Simply Sentiments,
ARTitude Zine, and have one blue ribbon awarded on a portrait of 14
children entitled "Bless the Children".
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Caryl's Top 5
ARTchix Studio
Products
1. Mystery
Transparency Sheet
2. In the
Garden Transparency Sheet
3. Brass
Heishi
4.
Loveliness Collage Sheet
5. Black
Lace Borders |
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Artwork #1: 8x10 Wrapped Canvas |
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Title Shadows of who we Are
ARTchix Products
Radiant Queens Collage Sheet
no longer available
Mystery Transparency Sheet
In my Closet Transparency Sheet
no longer available
Black Wood Gears
no longer available
Brass Gears
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Instructions
Gesso a stretched Canvas and paint
with acrylics.
Using a homemade template, sponge on olive green acrylics to shape
figures. Then splatter on miscellaneous acrylic colors. Use sequin waste
to add more acrylic colors and stamp miscellaneous words and figures
onto canvas. Use a stencil #3 and paint with brown acrylics. Using
crystal lacquer, attach two mystery transparency sheets and In my closet
gear transparency. Using golden gel medium, attach torn ephemera,
Radiant Queen, and black gears. I used E6000 to attach the Brass gears.
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Artwork #2:
9x12 Wrapped
Canvas |
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Title
Specimens
ARTchix Products
Winged Cuties Collage Sheet
Mystery Transparency Sheet
Beautiful Bottles Transparency Sheet
Brass Heishi
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Instructions
Gesso a stretched canvas and paint with acrylics.
Splatter acrylics onto old sheet music.
Watercolor old ephemera with numbers.
Using Golden gel medium, glue down splattered sheet music.
Cut a triangle from architecture ephemera, and glue down.
Using crystal lacquer, attach transparencies.
Glue down miscellaneous scrap and ephemera, bird, mica,
beads and sequins and finally winged cutie. Attach fibers to wood
stakes.
Use Crystal Lacquer to attach heishi and sequins.
I used Caran D'Ache crayons and prisma colored pencils
to add symbols, dots and swirls.
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Artwork #3: 8x10 Wrapped Canvas |
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Title The Invitation
ARTchix Products
This Place Transparency
Winged Beauties Collage Sheet
Lil Sweeties Collage Sheet
Metal Filigree Frames no longer
available
Copper Baroque Borders
Turquoise Metal Roses
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Instructions
Gesso a stretched canvas and paint with miscellaneous
acrylics. Glue down old ephemera. Attach This Place transparency with
Crystal Lacquer. Take the invitation and scratch up with sandpaper and color with Caran D'Ache crayons. Glue Winged Beauty in crayoned circle.
Using Golden gel medium, glue down invitation, more ephemera,
paper scraps, tickets, Victorian flower, and trading stamps. Glue Lil
Sweetie to Filigree frame and glue down with E600. Glue down
miscellaneous fabric scraps and copper border. Finish by adding more
Caran D'Ache colors and metal roses.
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Artwork #4: 9x12 Canvas Board |
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Title
Fairest Lady
ARTchix Products
Women in Art Collage Sheet |
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Instructions
Gesso canvas board and paint with acrylics. Stamp various
images onto the board when dry. Using the gel medium/transparency
method, transfer image of medieval man onto the canvas. Using gel
medium, glue down scraps of paper and medieval manuscript lettering. Cut
out found image of shrine and glue down with Women in Art image in
opening. Color shrine with Caran d'Ache crayons. Finish with two copper
embellishments.
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Artwork #5: 8x10 Canvas Board |
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Title
Butterflies are free
ARTchix Products
Biggie Collage Sheet Collection
no longer available
Black Gears
no longer available
In the Garden
Transparency
A Stamp in Time Transparency
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Instructions
Watercolor
old music sheets. Gesso and paint canvas board with acrylics. Glue down
music sheets and stamp with miscellaneous images. Use gel pens to create
circles. Attach transparencies and glue down image. Finish with black
gears and glass on butterfly.
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