Painting on a mixed media canvas provides a forgivable surface you can wipe clean to start again. You can create a mixed media background with scrapbooking paper or photos printed on hp Brochure Paper 180 g. Step 1: First, tear pieces of paper and arrange a design on a canvas. Step 2: Next, apply Golden …
Beautiful Forever
Beautiful Forever is a mixed media portrait that expresses the beauty of a woman who longs for and lives in faith, hope, and love. READ THE ENTIRE POST... SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave
The Great Affair
The Great Affair honors this wonderful journey we call life. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.The great affair is to move.” Travel writer Robert Luis Stevenson’s quote graces my daughter Elya’s world map painting I used for part of the mixed media background. My children and their spouses …
How to Create a Heart-Themed Mixed Media
This post will show you how to create a mixed media with a heart theme. This is a fun project you can do with a few simple materials. Supply List: 4″ by 6″ canvas Acrylic paints Wood heart Plaster cloth Stamps Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pressed leaves Tag made from scrapbook paper Ribbon Rose Embroidered …
Promethean: Dare to Create
Promethean, a mixed media, envisions creativity’s fruitfulness masked in human form. Like the mixed media’s namesake, Prometheus, we receive fire or inspiration from heaven and make something beneficial for humanity when we dare to create. The name for the mask popped into my mind quite unexpectedly, and I couldn’t recall the meaning. When I looked …
Tears in a Bottle Mixed Media
Tears in a Bottle is a mixed media project. It is inspired by Psalm 56:8, "You have collected all my tears in your bottle…recorded each one in your book." This scripture comforts with the reminder that God never forgets our sorrows. I used Golden Regular Gel (Matte) for the paper collaging. The eye is painted …
Chosen
I created this mixed media to visualize what it means to be Chosen. In My Father’s Vineyard by Wayne Jacobsen inspired Chosen. I’m reading this wonderful book and savoring every word, like a glass of fine wine. Having grown up on a vineyard, Jacobsen’s knowledge about vineyard husbandry brings scriptures to life. Jacobsen explains how God has grafted us into the …
Live Towards the Light
Live Towards the Light is a mixed media piece that addresses the artistic soul’s dark side. Those times when cloaks of confusion, anxiety, and despair fall over your heart, mind, and soul. Depression runs in my artistic family, and I know we’re not alone. Over the years, I’ve talked to countless other creative people who struggle …
Moon Dancing
We creative sorts are destined to be moon dancers, people who envision the impossible and dance upon the unreachable, dreams as distant as the moon. We spent an inordinate amount of time fantasizing about what could happen in our artistic lives: Perhaps I’ll become a famous novelist. Maybe my art will be recognized on Etsy …
