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Fantasy: An iPhoneography Apps Tutorial

In his newest tutorial, David Hayes uses 8 iPhoneography Apps to create a winter fantasy. Adding birds, a moon, stars and water to a tree in a field creates a magical world of wonder.

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The Art of Visual Storytelling: Creating Magical Dreamscapes

*A guest post by Lisa L. Cyr (www.cyrstudio.com). Using both two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed-media techniques, I love to create mystical landscapes, waterscapes and cityscapes. Each magical environment has its own story to tell! Currently, I am working on several dreamscape …

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Editor Profile: Brittany VanSnepson

About the Editor: Brittany VanSnepson joined Create Mixed Media and F+W Media’s Fine Art Community in April 2013 as an Associate Content Developer (Editor). She has a Bachelors with a double major in English Writing and Communications, with an emphasis …

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Inside Incite: Inspirational Quotes

*A guest post by Victoria Rose Martin. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” …

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The Art of Visual Storytelling!

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*A guest post by Lisa L. Cyr (www.cyrstudio.com). 23″ x 26 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ Mixed media Masonite with wooden framework Much of my work has a spiritual, mythological or psychological relevance where metaphors, symbolism and allegory are used to …

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Daily Mixed Media Art Practice

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*A guest post by Lisa Cyr. If you are feeling creatively blocked or stagnant, I highly encourage the daily practice of working in mixed-media sketchbooks and journals. When you allow yourself to play with paint and drawing materials or write …

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Extending a Photo With Personal Touch

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*Guest post by Sherry Pollack. This technique involves “extending” a photo onto the surrounding journal page by painting and/or drawing around it. I learned this process in an Artful Journaling class I take in Columbia, MD. When I expand a …

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Like A Kid Again: Make-Believe Maps

Guest post by Mandy Russell. Over a year ago I had the pleasure of working with 180 area second graders, as a resident artist, teaching them how to make their own pretend maps. With paint, paper and Mod Podge, they …

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Like A Kid Again: Layers Upon Lairs

Guest post by Mandy Russell Remember making forts as a child? The infamous indoor kind; involving sheets, blankets, pillows and a few couch cushions turned on their sides? This building design usually involved a piece of furniture as a key …

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New Online Workshop: Experimental Figure Painting in Mixed Media!

Find out more about Lisa L. Cyr’s newest online course with Artist’s Network University: Experimental Figure Painting in Mixed Media.

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