Category: Mixed Media Experiments

Mixed media is when you mix materials that usually don’t mix. I love to paint on fabric, sew on painted surfaces, and use crayons on the same page as I use watercolour, ink and acrylics.

Exploring Watercolors

I have been exploring watercolors intensely for the past few months. Or: exploring water colours if you will, my whole life….

Creativity & Life/Mixed Media Experiments

Warm Ups | the tabbed index dividers series

Last in the row of posts about index cards this year, I’m sharing the few index dividers I made first, before…

Art journaling/Mixed Media Experiments

61 Abstractions on Index Cards

The daily challenge of painting an abstract piece of art on an index card during June and July is over –…

Creativity & Life/Mixed Media Experiments

Experimenting with Index Card Art

In the beginning of June I shared that I was joining the summer challenge index-card-a-day, an Index Card Art Project open…

Mixed Media Experiments

Going back to basics with your Artwork

Going back to basics today! When you take a longer break from your main art practice, it is sometimes hard to…

iHanna's Thoughts/Mixed Media Experiments

Experiments with acrylic paint | smooch, rub, lift

Creativity is an elixir of life. It keeps us from being dried up and brittle by keeping the essence of our…

Mixed Media Experiments

A Little Art as a Daily Practice

I have been creating a Little Art as a Daily Practice for the past two months, and it has totally rejuvenated…

Mixed Media Experiments

Creating a Series of Postcards

When I am creating postcards I usually start by cutting ten or more pieces of paper to size. Cereal boxes are…

Mixed Media Experiments

Letting Creativity Loose

Always pass on what you have learned. Yoda Sometimes I forget how to do a collage, how to paint or how…

Mixed Media Experiments

Awesome Supplies | Go Create Gouache

I got a kit of gouache paint tubes from a friend. It’s my first try with gouaches since school, and it’s…

Mixed Media Experiments

A Love Message

I found this as I was going through the folders on my computer. I didn’t post it with the other pink…

Mixed Media Experiments

Blue Altered Vintage Postcards

Observant readers might have noticed that in my pink postcard post I only featured five out of the ten postcards I…

Mail bliss/Mixed Media Experiments