Mixed Media Collage

Collage art can really be anything. You can use paper, pastels or even encaustics. You can use rubber stamps that you make yourself or those you find in a store. You can use almost anything you can find, from feathers to paperclips. Essential collage ideas and collage art techniques are right here from the mixed media collage artists and CreateMixedMedia.com. This is the best place to get collage techniques and ideas no matter what your background.

Collage art can really be anything. You can use paper, pastels or even encaustics. You can use rubber stamps that you make yourself or those you find in a store. You can use almost anything you can find, from feathers to paperclips. Essential collage ideas and collage art techniques are right here from the mixed media collage artists and CreateMixedMedia.com. This is the best place to get collage techniques and ideas no matter what your background.

Painting with Re-Inkers from Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop

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In this painting technique from Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop, Serena Barton shows you how to make a landscape format painting using re-inkers.

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Art and Paint, Layers and Life: Symbols in Art

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In her first guest blog post, Sue Pelletier discusses symbols in art and why some of them show up so frequently in her art. It’s to do with painting what you know!

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Craft Month 2013: Be an “Active Listener” from Art Saves by Jenny Doh

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In this chapter from Art Saves by Jenny Doh, you’ll read about being an active listener and get to try the “Collage on the Rocks” project. It’s Craft Month 2013 fun!

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Craft Month 2013 Kickoff: Cool Collage eBook

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In honor of Craft Month, we’re giving away a free eBook dedicated entirely to the delights of collage. This book includes ten collage techniques and projects from some of our favorite books!

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Layering Techniques from Acrylic Techniques in Mixed Media

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Finding the right progression of layers in your painting and collage work can sometimes be difficult, but these tutorials from Roxanne Padgett’s Acrylic Techniques in Mixed Media will set you in the right direction from the get-go. Use these fabulously colorful pages as substrates for your collages or as part of your art journal!

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Make a Collaged Box from Crafty Birds

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In this mixed-media tutorial from the book Crafty Birds, you’ll learn how to make a collaged box in which you can store anything from jewelry to ephemera!

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Transparently Collaged: Ghost It

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Want to add a ghostly or transparent effect to your collage? Try this new image transfer technique from Mixed Media Revolution, the new book by Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson.

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Make a Collage: Repetition of Stamps from Art of Layers

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The beginning of a new year is a great time to take stock in where you are creatively, and in life. Try Ronda Palazzari’s Repetition of Stamps technique to create a collage for where you currently are, and what you’d like to do in the next year!

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Mixed Media Tarot Cards: An Introduction

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In this first post in a series from guest artist, Andrea Matus deMeng, Andrea shares how she first fell in love with tarot cards and how they are the perfect outlet for telling your personal stories.

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Art Saves: Creating an Affirmation Collage

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This tutorial takes you step-by-step through a collage project incorporating layers of paper and paints, charcoal pencil work and affirming messages of hope.

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