Mixed Media Painting Tutorials and Collage Courses

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Expressive Painting Progressions

Explore expressive painting progressions with collage and acrylic. Learn to loosen up your art and paint with confident, painterly energy.

Seafood gumbo cookbook at the center of a messy mixed media artist’s desk, surrounded by collage papers.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Mixed Media Art Supplies: Your Recipe for Creative Gumbo

Mixed media art supplies are like cooking seafood gumbo—you don’t need every spice in the cabinet, just the right mix of ingredients. Let's eat!

Top view of a mixed media artist’s paint-splattered workspace with brushes, palette, and a bowl of golden garlic knots, symbolizing the creative recipe theme.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

The Garlic Knot Lesson Every Mixed Media Beginner Needs

Mixed media art is like cooking — my first garlic knots were brick-hard, but practice turned them golden. The same goes for art: combine watercolor, acrylics, collage, and more, and you’ll turn early flops into creative breakthroughs.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Urban Cityscapes in Acrylic & Collage

Discover how I create vibrant urban cityscapes using acrylic and collage, from the first loose sketch to the final textured painting.

Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques

Painterly Style Tutorial or Beginners

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to start abstract painting for beginners. Video tutorial shares ideas for how to break away from rigid art.

Messy art studio—acrylic and collage techniques on Bristol.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Unconventional Acrylic Collage Techniques on Bristol

Turn old drawings into handmade collage papers using acrylics, inks, crayons, graphite and more. Resourceful and authentic!

Hands painting on Bristol with handmade collage papers; messy palette and tools—acrylic mixed-media in progress.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Collage Still Life Painting Tutorial

Yet another abstract collage still life painting tutorial. Learn the elements of shape, color, and composition to create stunning artworks.

Mixed media floral painting in progress with collage vase and acrylic background on 11x14 canvas

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Step-by-Step Mixed Media Floral Painting Tutorial

Create a beautiful mixed media floral still life using collage and acrylics. Follow this easy, step-by-step process to bring your design to life.

Mixed media floral painting in progress with teal collage borders and bold red flowers over a rescued watercolor base.

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Mixed Media Collage Border Floral Painting Tutorial

Transform an old watercolor into a fresh floral painting with collage borders, bold red blooms, and loose mixed media techniques.

Mixed media landscape painting with collage borders and bold acrylic patterns

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Experimenting with Patterns and Collage in Landscape Painting

Transform a cityscape with collage borders, bold acrylic patterns, and fresh design elements. Learn why experimentation leads to breakthroughs in art.

Mixed media landscape painting with collage accents and acrylic layers

Mixed Media Painting Tutorials

Explore Collage and Mixed Media Landscape Techniques

Transform a landscape with handmade collage, layered acrylics, and expressive mark-making. Learn how to give ordinary scenes fresh energy and texture.

Landscape Painting Tutorials

Discover How to Turn Bad Art into Expressive Landscape Artwork

That painting sitting in the corner that's been annoying you for weeks? The one you started as watercolor, added acrylics to, then shoved aside in frustration? Don't throw it away, here's why...

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