Need some new art journaling ideas? We have a fun one to share with you today from mixed-media artist Jenn Olson. Jenn likes to combine doodling and collage to make unique art journal pages filled with layers, depth, and color. Follow Jenn’s tutorial below to try it for yourself! This article first appeared in the Summer 2015…
So you want to create a mixed-media painting that includes both acrylic and oil paint. If you want to use both of these paints, you need to know that it matters which you put on the canvas first. Annie O’Brien Gonzales addresses this approach and much more in her new book, Bold Expressive Painting: Painting Techniques…
This is a new, mixed-media collage in my "Shapeshifting" series. In each of the collages, women toss out their corsets and, sometimes, other "beauty" aids. The subtitle on this is "Edith threw caution – and, perhaps, her inheritance – to the wind." It's made with all original papers – no photocopies or digital images –…
My grandmother was a beautician who owned a beauty shop and when she passed away I found her old appt. books. That formed the background for the image, along with our Christmas Cactus…a very hardworking plant in the winter when all else dies back. The glasses and broken watch belonged to my great grandfather, who…
I started out painting a scenic flower garden, but didn't get very far when I decided to start glueing dryer sheets, music sheets, old dictionary paper, gauze, tissue paper and paper towels spray inked from previous art work. After everything was glued, i put a little bit of glitter on it & loved the outcome,…
By Deborah Pierro – First layer is gesso. Second layer consists of papers that I stamped, dyed with alcohol inks, alcohol inked and blown with a straw, and painted with acrylic paint. Third layer consists of leaf embellishments, some I made and some commercial, word stickers, and a photo cut out from junk mail advertising…
By Deborah A. Pierro – I found a board and used it for this piece. I covered it with gesso and later added a bunch of papers that I had stamped on; one paper that I created with a stencil and a black oil pastel crayon; another paper that I designed on the computer; a…
Sometimes I am inspired by certain music when I work. I wasn't sure where to place this piece. This is a 3/4 cello that my daughter played until it literally fell apart and the sound peg was no longer operable. I had it in the basement for about 5 year because I never throw anything…
Mixed media collage – paper, ink, paint
This is a small – 7 " x 5" – collage created for Cincinnati's ArtWorks annual Secret Artworks auction. It combines vintage images from a circus poster and children's book with antique text, recycled greeting cards and a recycled illustration from a publisher's book proof. Watercolor and marker were used to pump up the colors…
