Shiny Designs https://shinydesigns.com/ Make Your Mark. Art from the edge, made by hand, offered as a spark. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/shinydesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Icon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Shiny Designs https://shinydesigns.com/ 32 32 26339015 Making a Mini Art Journal from Scrap Painted Paper https://shinydesigns.com/mini-art-journal-scrap-painted-paper/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:02 +0000 https://shinydesigns.com/?p=5962 I don’t keep an art journal. What I do keep is paper: big painted sheets that catch brayer roll-offs and leftover paint. Here’s how a couple of them became a mini art journal with fold-out pages, a cover cut from an experiment, and a long stapler. It isn’t finished. It’s started.

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]]> 5962 Unquiet Ground: A Mixed Media Series on Reclaimed Panels https://shinydesigns.com/unquiet-ground-mixed-media-reclaimed-panels/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:29:39 +0000 https://shinydesigns.com/?p=5787 The full process behind Unquiet Ground — scraping back another artist’s work, painting live, and why none of these need a frame.

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]]> 5787 Painting Over Reclaimed Panels: What Happens When Nothing Is Precious https://shinydesigns.com/painting-over-reclaimed-panels/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:31:36 +0000 https://shinydesigns.com/?p=5728 A fellow artist handed me a stack of discarded panels and I had no idea what she'd done to them. That was the whole point of picking up the brush. Watch what happens when nothing is left precious enough to protect.

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