Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists

Making Patterns with Acrylic Mediums The thicker texture mediums can be very successfully imprinted using a variety of objects: ...

~ce modeling paste dries opaque, use it in earlier layers of your painting, where it won't cover up important areas. Use heavy g ...

Two-Dimensional Optical Texture Texture can be both tactile and optical. The tactile kind is associated with descriptions such a ...

Ways To Produce Two-Dimensional Texture Many different media lend themselves to creating faux texture. Crayons and pastels provi ...

~d a three-dimensional effect by spat- tering twice, first w it h a dark color, then with a light o ne. Let the first spatter dr ...

Creating a Textured Abstract Painting In this demonstration, texture is the dominant feature, so you don't need a complex color ...

5 To finish the painting, embellish with crayon (Caran d'Ache wax-oil) rubbed over a section of the rice paper and drawn over th ...

Layering Paint and Found Images Collage "A technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials ...

In the early twentieth century, when Pablo Picasso was collaborat- ing with Georges Braque, they invented the word collage, whic ...

Selecting Images for Collages Some dictionary synonyms for collage are: patchwork, ran- dom collection, hodgepodge, or clutter. ...

Being faced with so many choices can be overwhelming and even counterproductive. Over the years I have devel- oped ways of organ ...

Which Goes Down First: the Collage or the Paint? A successful mixed-media collage is often a process of moving back and forth be ...

Initial Layout to Final Image Composing as you go can be difficult. Sometimes it helps to glue down all the major collage pieces ...

Layering with Glazes The term glaze refers to a t hin, transparent layer of paint Glazes were popular with the old masters, who ...

Help I I Covered My Image! One of the most frequent cries of woe from any collage artist is, "I just covered up something import ...

Disguising Edges In order to integrate collage into your painting, you will often need to make the edges of the torn or cut pape ...

Brainstorming Ideas in Writing Remember those wonderful illustrated books you read as a child? The pictures brought the characte ...

War king in Series One advantage of organizing your collage into themes is that you can be inspired to create several paintings ...

LEFT: Petite Blonde, Ann Baldwin. 10" x 8" (25.4 x 20 .3 cm). acrylic, collage on canvas. Private collection. The text was enlar ...

A Step-by-Step Painting with Found Imagery This painting was commissioned by some good friends. The subject matter was suggested ...