Tag: Mixed Media Supplies

Trend Alert: Add Marbling to Your Art Repertoire

Marbling is a fast-growing trend in mixed media, and a new generation of paints makes it easy to decorate almost any surface with beautiful swirled color. Marbling involves floating paint on the surface of a water bath to create multicolored designs, and then placing items into the paint to embellish them. Marabu’s Easy Marble paints…

Jeanne Oliver’s 10 Favorite Mixed-Media Tools

I am currently writing from my art desk, where I am surrounded by sketches, toolboxes, vintage clay bowls, glass yogurt containers, and mason jars filled with the tools of my trade. Colors and texture everywhere my eyes stop to look. Each of my mixed-media tools carefully organized and well worn. These tools that surround me…

On-the-Road Art Experiments: The Good and the Bad

Creating art while traveling is adventurous and exciting. But it’s also something you should carefully plan and prepare for, so you don’t get stuck with a supply disaster miles away from home. Here, artists Susan Andrews and Carolyn Fellman share their good and bad experiences with taking art on the road. Their expert tips will…

Road Test: Experimenting with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Nuvo Embellishment Mousse is quite versatile. This acrylic, paste-like shimmery product with pigmented mica powder is water soluble and permanent when dry. It mixes with ink, acrylic paint, and even watercolor paint, as well as acrylic mediums. The consistency is thick and ultra creamy. This mousse has little to no odor, and mixes quickly and…

A cool tip for metal embossing

One reason I have so much respect for our artist contributors is that they continually come up with cool techniques, hacks, tips, and shortcuts that make mixed-media art projects even more fun than they already are. Case in point: The collaged wooden box with metal embellishments featured on the cover of the July/August issue of…