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.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Explore creative mixed media painting with free tutorials and courses. Blend acrylic, watercolor, and collage to create expressive, layered artwork. Perfect for beginners and artists who want to experiment and break the rules.
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...
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Explore Mixed Media and Collage Landscape Painting Ideas
See how to turn a watercolor into a fresh mixed media landscape with painted borders, collage strips, and layered patterns for extra visual interest.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
How to Paint an Urban Landscape Using Mixed Media
Learn how to revive a watercolor cityscape using mixed media collage borders, bold acrylic details, and creative layering techniques.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Painterly Mixed Media Flowers with Collage Borders
Learn how to turn a watercolor into a lively mixed media floral still life with collage borders, bold strokes, and vibrant on-surface color mixing.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Mixed Media Flower Painting with Collage Borders
Paint your flowers in the center. Build the magic around the edges. How I discovered that putting collage around a painting instead of inside it creates instant depth and draws the eye exactly where you want it to go.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Exploring Mixed Media Landscape and Collage Techniques
A gallery of recent coastal and urban landscapes created by transforming rejected watercolors into layered, expressive mixed media artworks.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Painterly Collage Techniques for Loose, Mixed-Media Flowers
This floral still life started on a recycled “palette paper,” layered with a colorful collage border and painted loosely with acrylics for a fresh, textured finish.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Watercolor and Acrylic Mixed Media Demonstration
This tutorial demonstrates how to enhance existing watercolor paintings through mixed media applications. Using pattern elements and selective acrylic additions, you'll learn approaches to rescuing bad art.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Mixed Media Cat Painting Demonstration
Turn a discarded Bristol paper palette into a colorful, playful mixed media cat painting using acrylics and creative brushwork. Beginner-friendly and fun!
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Mixed Media Still Life Project Using Acrylic and Collage
This tutorial demonstrates mixed media still life construction using Bristol paper and strategic collage integration. Beginner friendly mixed media project you can do at home.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Guide to Collaging the Garage Artist Way
A no-rules guide to collaging: make your own papers, rescue “failed” sketches, and build expressive mixed-media layers with techniques that actually work.