Mixed Media Art & Painting Techniques

Mixed Media

What to Do With Paintings You Hate: Turn Rejects Into Collage

Don’t throw away paintings you hate. Learn how collage interrupts a reject, changes the mood, and turns a failed painting into a mixed media experiment.

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How to Paint Loose: Why It Takes Practice (and How to Start)

Want to paint loose and expressive art? It takes practice, not luck. Learn why exploring beats chasing finished pieces, with a mixed media still life demo.

Loose experimental watercolor trees with green washes, brown trunks, lime green crayon marks, and graphite lines on cold press paper.

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Experimental Watercolor Trees: Mixed Media Ideas to Explore

Stop painting watercolor trees to get them right. Explore instead with watercolor mixed with crayon, collage, acrylic, and graphite to find your own style.

Collage of tomatoes, pea pods, mushrooms, and green vegetables cut from handmade paper on a light gray painted background.

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Easy Collage Project for Beginners: Fruits & Veggies

Try this easy collage project for beginners. Cut fruit and veggie shapes from textured paper, glue them down, and paint the background around them.

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How to Make Handmade Collage Paper From Leftover Paint

Learn how to make handmade collage paper from leftover paint, then use it in a loose mixed media still life with Bristol paper, glue, and gesture drawing.

Loose abstract figure painting of a seated person using expressive blue, brown, gray, and pink brushstrokes on white paper.

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Loose Figure Painting Demo (Stop Overthinking Your Art)

Learn loose figure painting with watercolor, acrylics, gesture drawing, and expressive brushwork. Discover how structure creates artistic freedom.

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Sometimes a Lemon Painting Is Actually Great (Mixed Media Still Life)

Explore mixed media still life painting with lemons, using acrylic ink, watercolor, charcoal, collage paper, and expressive acrylic brushwork.

Watercolor collage landscape with sailboats made from stained paper, with cool blue water reflections and a small red accent.

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How to Paint a Watercolor Collage Landscape With Sailboats (Mixed Media)

Learn how to make a watercolor collage landscape with sailboats using stained paper, watercolor, and acrylic highlights. Free mixed media tutorial.

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Mixed Media Flower Painting: Acrylics, Collage & Loose Brushwork

Learn mixed media flower painting using acrylics, collage paper, and a rejected painting. Explore bold color, loose brushwork, and expressive layers.

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Abstract Fish Painting with Collage Paper and Acrylic

A failed watercolor, some paint-covered scraps, and a little blue acrylic. Here’s how I turned studio leftovers into a loose mixed media fish painting.

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Loose Mixed Media Cityscape: Acrylic + Collage Painting Demo

Learn how to paint a loose mixed media cityscape using acrylics, collage, and simple composition. Create expressive urban scenes without overworking details.

Collage & Acrylic Still Life Painting with flowers in white vase

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Turn Old Sketches Into Art: Collage & Acrylic Still Life Painting

Turn old sketches into expressive art with this mixed media still life tutorial. Learn simple collage techniques, loose acrylic painting, and layering.