Sometimes a piece just isn’t coming together. You’ve been working on something for hours and it still doesn’t look right. What do you do? Delete the file in shame? Turn to oil painting instead of digital collage? Quit being an artist all together? Hell no!…
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Going digital – why I’m dumping my paper ephemera collection
Being stuck indoors for the last three months has changed my thinking on hoarding art supplies. Pre-pandemic, it was totally fine to have stacks and stacks of books, papers, and ephemera– because I (basically) had everything in boxes and semi-organized, and eventually I’d use them….
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How to handle art jealousy and become a better artist
How do you handle art jealousy? I mean, spend any amount of time online in the artistic community, and you’ll inevitably run into the Big Green Monster. No, not Shrek. JEALOUSY. I struggle with art jealousy all the time. I see an amazing art journal…
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Don’t be a mixed media art hoarder
If I let myself, I’d buy ALL the mixed media supplies. Every paint, every type of gesso, every stamp and stamp pad and brush that I could find. But I’m not made of money, so I have to restrain myself. And actually, NOT buying every…
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How to make more art when you’re short on time
The eternal question of every artist: how to make more art?? Modern adult life means a) always working, b) always tired, and c) always wondering what happened to that creative spark we had as a kid. I’m majorly bummed that I don’t seem to have…
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Stop being a mixed media art copycat & find your own art style
One thing I struggle with is finding and STICKING with my own art style. I watch a ton of Youtube videos and read a lot of mixed media art books, and I check out artists’ blogs when I can. I want to try those new…
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Make ugly art and free your artistic soul
So I think there’s this huge fear among mixed media artists to make ugly art. I’ve been making some form of mixed media art since I was in undergraduate school (so, like, 10+ years ago). I started with collage/gluebook, then added in paint, then markers,…
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