Art journaling is a powerful way to help you achieve success as an artist. It can help you capture information, ideas and inspiration. Personally, I keep 5 different kinds of art journals…
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5 Mixed Media Background Ideas
Having a theme or color palette in mind for your mixed media piece can help you decide what to use for your background. The reverse is also true- when you have a…
How to Make Your Own Keepsake Greeting Card Book
What do I, a mixed media artist and scrapbooker do with all those beautiful greeting cards I’ve collected over the years? Storing them in a shoebox or worse, in a plastic shopping…
Brown and Blue Silk Flower Card
I enjoy using silk flowers in my craft projects and always save the leftovers. I like to take them apart and layer them with other flowers. If they are not the right…
Ideas for Mixed Media Art
If you are having trouble getting started with your mixed media art or need some ideas of what to do next or simply want to try a new technique or material, here…
Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt.5
What are your options when you’ve created a piece of mixed media art that you don’t like? You went through the process of brainstorming and collecting the the right items. You thought…
Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt.4
This is the 4th post in the Loon Assemblage Art series. I adhered all the “food” in the lower right corner- some plastic aquatic plants, a fish and a frog along with…
Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt.3
This is part 3 of the Loon Art Assemblage series. To make the loon eggs, I found some homemade clay recipes online. The first recipe I tried didn’t work; the eggs got “bumpy” as they…
Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt 2
In Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt. 1 I discussed how I wanted some loon feathers in my art but I’d need to find a way to color them. My first thought was…
Assemblage Art of the Common Loon, pt.1
I’m a homeschooling mom and last week as we were reading in my son’s science book, we ran across a photo of a loon. I’ve seen loons before but for some reason…