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My Art Process – Mixed Media Abstract Flowers on Canvas with Collage, Ink, and Acrylic
Hi friends! I did some collage and mixed media on canvas today, and it was a lot of fun doing some intuitive art! I love canvas for the different surface it provides which holds up a much better to scrubbing and scraping than paper, but I love painting on both. I hope you enjoy this…
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How to Use Doodle Shapes to Create Interesting Gouache Folk Art Flowers
Hi friends! I broke out the ShinHan gouache again to do these easy doodle flowers in my art journal! This idea came to me after I painted one of my watercolor cards and did the same thing with a Christmas tree. I first drew my basic flower shapes, and then I made some swirly doodle…
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How to Paint Easy Gouache Folk Art Flowers – Practicing with My New ShinHan Gouache
Hi friends! I got out the new ShinHan Gouache set to paint some easy folk art flowers! I started with a pencil sketch and then filled in the background with a nice dark blue that will be enough contrast with the rest of my flower and greenery colors. Then I finished it all off with…
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Mixed Media Moments #2, What Art I’m Working on This Week
Hi friends! Here’s the second installment! I am working on mark making today in both ink and watercolor, so I hope you join me for a couple of fun exercises and chat! Have a wonderful holiday, and happy creating!
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Acrylic Over Watercolor Hummingbird – Make Easy Paintings Using Flowy Media and Opaque Color
Hi friends! I have a full length process video of a watercolor ink background with acrylic paint and ink layered on top. I love this combo because you can get some nice sharp edges and shapes over the top of a very fuzzy and blended background. I used a photo reference of a hummingbird with…
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How to Paint a Fun and Easy Stylized Flamingo with Acrylic Paint and Collage
Hi friends! I painted a flamingo, and it was so fun! Grab your acrylic paints, paper, and brushes and join me for this full length paint along. I started by layering some basic collage paper, then broke out a few inks, and then acrylic paints. This is a nice and easy painting that anyone can…
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Abstract Experimenting with Fluid Acrylic Inks and Watercolor Ink on Gesso Canvas Board
Hi friends! I broke out an old gesso’d over painting on a canvas board to play with my inks and liquid watercolor! This is another experiment with fluid art and I did a couple of layers and finished it off with gold. I love how it turned out! Depending on the surface, you can get…
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Mixed Media Moments #1, What Art I’m Working on This Week
Hi friends! I might be starting a new small series affectionately titled Mixed Media Moments. I wanted to give you a look at what I’m working on and show you multiple projects in a single video. I hope you enjoy! For this video, I’m chatting and working on an acrylic bird painting, a gouache cupcake,…
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Break the Blank Page Collage and Mixed Media Abstract Acrylic Painting
Hi friends! Sometimes when we’re not feeling like making art, it’s the best time to get started. Staring at a blank page can be rough and for me, getting started is always the hardest when I’m not feeling very creative. But it’s always helped me when I just forge ahead anyway, and make a bunch…
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It’s Gelli Printing Time! Let’s Have Fun Creating Beautiful Collage Papers
Hi friends! I broke out my paints, stencils, brayer, household markmaking tools, and a bunch of papers to make some gelli prints! I hope this hour-long video gives you some ideas and we can monoprint and spend some time together! As always, thanks for watching! Supplies used in this video: Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paint 4…
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Experimental Abstract Fluid Acrylic Ink and Watercolor Painting
Hi friends! I am trying another fluid ink and watercolor abstract and playing with my bamboo dip pen and stylus. This is so fun and I think the results are really beautiful! I hope you give this a try. It’s so nice to see what happens when you give up control over the outcome and…
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Experimental Abstract Painting With VERY Flowy Acrylic Inks and Artist’s Loft Fluid Watercolor
Hi friends! I picked up some new Artist’s Loft fluid watercolor ink from Michaels and wanted to do some experimental abstract flowy painting with those and also some of my acrylic inks, including Pearlescents from Daler Rowney. I LOVED how this turned out, and finished it off with a little bit of stencils and marks.…
