Whilst browsing HMV, this album cover caught my attention ...I like the cut out feature, and I'd like to do this sort of technique with an owl shape and my own countryside imagery and print this on to a t-shirt

Claire Brewster

Her work is about retrieving the discarded,  celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. A nostalgic fascination with objects from another place or time and a desire to examine the overlooked feeds her creativity.

Yulia Brodskaya

Driven by a passion to unite typography with illustration with typography, developed a unique style that embraced paper cutting and folding to bring a type to life. Click here for her website.

Lyndi Sales

Through intricate interweaving cuts in paper and card, laces together delicate works that explore the complexities of fate and human vulnerability. Using universally recognisable symbols of chance such as playing cards etc, exploring human nature i the face of the unpredictable and the improbable. Click here for her website.

Monsoon Spring/ Summer 2012

I want to include an installation of mixed media within my final show, transforming my merchandise tent into a bespoke statement and piece of art.

Kirsten Hassenfeld

Delicate light-infused paper based mixed media jewels. Stunning evoking a romanticism like Robert Ryan. Click here for her website.

Liz Miller

Produces mixed media installations and drawings redefine simple shapes, signs and symbols from historical and contemporary sources to create  abstract fictions. Existing forms from a range of sources are adapted, altered and spliced to adopt hybrid identities.

Surfaces

Antoni Tapies

Norma Starszakowna- silk organza, printed with various media and metal leaf.

I then made my own experimental surfaces. I splatted emulsion and left to dry. After using the charcoal on its side, gave texture, depth and a rippling effect.

After I mixed green and yellow ink, making sure it was still wet, put clingfilm on and allowed to dry.

Mixed PVA and yellow and green ink, sponged on. Plasterer's scrim drenched in PVA, spontaneously smushed on. Gives a fluidity and a 3D effect.

Masked off a 'T' shape with masking tape, sponged on ink, but bled through. Sprinkled on salt. also gave underwater effect.

PVA and green ink base, latex gloves ripped and layered with string and thread.

Emulsion smeared on with plastic knife, salt and rice flakes sprinkled on.

Alberto Giacometti

'Thats the terrible thing, the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it is to finish' Giacometti

I wanted to experiment more with texture and so I explored Giacometti's techniques of layering and veiling etc. As he uses the many different angles to build up his work, this is because he is a sculptor.

• Firstly, I stretched a piece of thick A1 cartridge paper onto a board.
• I then laid a basic mixed media surface over the paper, I kept the colour scheme white and added plasterer's scrim and tissue paper with PVA.
• The subject matter I chose was some of my life drawings from different angles.
• My concept behind this piece was to focus on the word vulnerability.
• I used a range of media such as fine line, biro, graphite, charcoal and ink and stick. These mediums enabled me to work quickly and fluidly. 
• By overlapping and veiling my drawing, it gives a multi dimensional element to my piece