Mixed Media

Andrew Raftery Takes His Prints to Plates to Wallpaper

One thing leads to another for artist/printmaker Andrew Raftery. Here is the story of his [...]

How to Paint Abstract Art: Develop a Composition

In this step-by-step demonstration, artist Molly Herman mixes mediums to develop an abstract composition with [...]

Art Sketchbook Ideas: Your Guide to an Artist’s Best Tool

We’ve rounded up the best tips, ideas, and techniques from artists for keeping an art [...]

These Monochrome Drawings Explore the Concept of Identity

Learn how Samantha Wall’s monochrome drawings offer highly personal explorations of identity, race, and interior [...]

This Innovative Artist Combines Charcoal Drawings with Assemblage

Whitfield Lovell combines charcoal drawings with playing cards, found objects, and entire structures in order [...]

These Acrylic Paintings Create a Sense of Home

Ali Esmaeilipour focuses on the unexpected and everyday to remind us of home in an [...]

From Serious Life Challenge to Thriving Online Art Business

Mixed-media artist Wyanne Thompson is living proof that cancer is a word, not a sentence. [...]

Leave No Media Behind: An Exploration of Mixed Drawing Media

One artist experiments with drafting film and mixed drawing media for a contemporary twist on [...]

Self-Portraits in the Digital Age

Find creative approaches for self-portraits with digital devices and applications. By Myrna Wacknov Self-portraits are [...]

Taking Viewers on Personal Journeys of Discovery

Darlene Olivia McElroy weaves found images with paintings to create realities subjective to each viewer’s [...]

Mixed-Media Artists Share the Stories Behind Their Paintings

The best stories carry us along with just the right levels of detail, suspense, and [...]

The Love of Art and Food Combine

Mixed-media art recipe cards are lovely memento and delicious kitchen decor in one. The cards [...]

11 Artists on the Sketchbooks and Materials That Keep Them Creative

11 artists open the pages of their sketchbooks and journals, with recommendations for us sketching [...]

Take a Step Back and Let Your Subconscious Do the Drawing

Instead of starting an art project by developing the concept, just start drawing and leave [...]

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Woodcut Prints With a Sociopolitical Purpose

In his woodcut prints, Saad Ghosn decries injustice and exposes the pain of both psychic [...]

Donna Watson Overcame Creative Block by Switching Media

This artist broke through an artistic block by switching media — from acrylic to oil [...]