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Art Techniques for Finding Your Voice with Mary Beth Shaw and Tracy Verdugo Online Event!

Join Mary Beth Shaw and Tracy Verdugo in an hour-long live online event, sponsored by Jerry’s Artarama, full of art techniques from Paint Mojo!

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Slow Down a Little and Find Your Artistic Voice

If you’re just starting to make art and are already thinking about opening up an Etsy shop to sell your work, you maybe need to slow down just a teeny little bit.

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Mixed-Media Artist Mary Beth Shaw on Finding Your Voice

In this podcast, Mary Beth Shaw demystifies “finding your voice,” helps you get over the Fear of The Blank Canvas, and talks about being so in-the-flow you forget to stop and pee. How’s that for a wide-ranging conversation?

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Mixed-Media Memories and Mementos

A guest post by Nancy Anderson Mementos, Memories, & Meaning in Mixed Media What I love most about mixed media is its flexibility, which allows one to work intuitively with minimal preplanning. When I’m not overly concerned about technique I …

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Self Discovery Series: Alter Ego

alter ego

How we view ourselves is different from how others perceive us, whether it’s purposeful or not. Sometimes we work hard at presenting a stronger front or come off as a little crazier than we intended – but that’s okay, it’s …

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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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Junk Journal Oopsies

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*Guest post by Carolyn Dube. I had a big problem. I was frozen and unable to decide where to start on a pristine white page in a brand new journal.  I so wanted to play but just couldn’t bring myself …

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Expressive Collage Webinar with Crystal Neubauer and Mary Beth Shaw!

Join Mary Beth Shaw and collage artist Crystal Neubauer for a webinar about The Art of Expressive Collage!

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No Excuses Watercolor – Notes from Author Gina Rossi Armfiled

No Excuses Watercolor

No Excuses Watercolor is now officially available! If you are a fan of Gina’s first book, No Excuses Art Journaling, you’re going to love this brand new book that completely takes the fear out of playing with watercolor. We asked …

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Painting a Fairy Journal Cover

*A guest post by Art Journal Kickstarter contributor Marianne Goodell. There are several techniques I like to use when painting journal covers. One of my favorites combines using prisma colored pencils as an underpainting and glazes of acrylic paints for …

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