Mitari chan

Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work. When creating a painted or photographed work using mixed media it is important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough drying time between the layers to ensure the final work will have integrity. If many different media are used it is equally important to choose a sturdy foundation upon which the different layers are imposed. Many interesting effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Often, found objects are used in conjunction with traditional artist media, such as paints and graphite, to express a meaning in the everyday life. In this manner, many different elements of art become more flexible than with traditional artist media. Imagine a club house (or hut) made of beards, fluorescent paint, driftwood, plastic toys, beat up skateboards, swimming suits, colorful string and bottle caps. That’s Grass Hut! It all started with Bwana Spoons. He made art that inspired us all. He invited us to show art with him, he’s the reason we came together. Scrappers, Le Merde, Martin Ontiveros, and Apak have come to be know as Grass Hut. These artists have helped Grass Hut grow by curating group shows, teaching each other how to make toys, making websites for each other, painting murals, working the shop counter, shipping, answering email, making each other laugh with fart jokes, and by having the kind of fun that informs the work we do. Grass Hut is a gallery/shop/studio located in Portland, but all the artists involved have turned it more into a colorful wildfire of creativity that has spread throughout the tubes of the internet connecting artists from around the world. Beyond the brick and mortar of the Portland location, Grass Hut grows in the work done by it’s extended family: Arbito, Snaggs, Shawn Wolfe, Gargamel, David Horvath, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, John Black and You make this whole thing more important then the people involved. Now it’s about the