Get Ready To Art For Earth!

  I am so excited to be part of the project from Willowing Arts. It launches today, YAY YAY YAY!   So if you haven’t heard about Art For Earth, it is an amazing collection of over 85 art products – workshops, ebooks, downloads – from over 45 mixed media artists, including some of the most popular artists and teachers in our…

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VIDEO: Can I Use Up All My Leftover Paint? – Stretch Your Products Art Challenge!

Art Challenge Time! What do you do with the paint leftover from a project? Usually I just wipe it from my palette onto a page in my Junk Journal to use later. Or if there is only a little bit left I might dump it. But not this time! My art challenge to you (and me!) is to use up some leftover paint…

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VIDEO: Acrylic Paint, Watercolour And Ink Art

I thought that I would work on one of the backgrounds I have been making recently. So this piece starts on an acrylic paint background and I layer it with a whole host of different materials. Acrylic ink, brush pens, ball point pens and watercolour paint all go into the layers on this piece today. But even though it uses a lot…

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VIDEO: Easy Painted Doodle Inspiration

  Hey all, it is a new video day and this week I have a painted doodle, collage page in my for some inspiration for you. I am just loving layering doodles and paint marks at the moment and each time I do it they seem to get more complex. I am challenging myself to see how many layers I can get…

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VIDEO: How To Use Your Brush To Add Texture

  One of the things that I have been playing around with and experimenting with a lot recently is simple ways to add texture with a brush to my mixed media and acrylic painting projects. It is like brush mark making 101 but it is super fun and well worth trying if you are a newbie or revisiting if you are more…

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VIDEO: How to Stop Perfectionism Getting In The Way Of Your Art

  We can put a lot of obstacles in our own way can't we?! And one of the ones I struggle with is perfectionism. I am a perfectionist. But when it comes to my art I have learnt how to get past it and not let it hold me back from doing art. Part of what has helped me is learning to…

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VIDEO: Our Favorites Mixed Media Video Hop And Giveaway

  I do hope you are in the mood for a video hop because it is the 'Our Favorites' mixed media video hop with lots of inspiration and giveaways. So some of you already know the ropes for how this video hopping works don't you? For those of you new to video hopping pop on over to my 'Our Favorites' video on…

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VIDEO: Mixed Media Video Hop And Giveaway August 2018 – Sea

Video hop time! It's a mixed media hop with lots of inspiration and giveaways too. The video is below and all the details that you need to find out how to enter plus what is up for offer is below, so scroll on down. But don't forget that if you want to enter the giveaway you will need to not here on…

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VIDEO: Painting On Fabric – A Mixed Media Rose

  When was the last time that you were painting on fabric? I think for me it must have been a while ago. The closest was when I made that and then I used stamps so no painting on fabric was involved! But I did have this piece of denim left over after that session and I had already treated it with…

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VIDEO: Turning Waking Art Into Real Art – Mixed Media Abstract Art

  Have you ever woken up with a picture in your head of a project you really need to do? Well, this happened to me yesterday. I woke with a really clear image in my head, this waking art just popped into my head as I became aware of the new day and started to open my eyes. But it wasn't just…

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VIDEO: Mixed Media Collage Painting – Project 2 From My Burnout Series

  More burnout art today and a mixed media collage piece. Yep, I am owning it and calling it burnout work! If you aren't sure what I am going on about then visit last Wednesday's post and watch that video first, it will be a little clearer. It is not so drastic as it sounds, don't worry, but I have been suffering…

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