Enhancing your Skills in Art

Mixed Media Art wants you to grow through into your creativity and art. In their 50 pages of a technical sheet, they have outlined techniques, skills and projects that you can apply. Read below some of the painting techniques:

1. Credit Card Painting -You use this when you want to get onto lots of paper fairly quickly. It is more preferable for large swaps or large journal pages. Use of different colour combinations an exciting experience of endless, unique background papers which will be ready for journaling. 
2. Mixed Media Stencils - This helps to add shapes and patterns to your art work. It gives you control over your creating process and originality. It’s a better way of doing your pictures using stencils of drawing your own scares you.
3. Purple Painted Background - You will create simple backgrounds by the use of many layers which will eventually add visual interest to your piece of art. You can make use of different colors to create all sorts of backgrounds. 

Mixed media Skills include:

• Edging and Sponging which will alter the way a finished piece
• Antiquing where you can use different mediums and papers to achieve different shades and colours
• Tissue Paper images.

Mixed Media Projects are:

• Sticky Note Book 
• Art in shapes
• Ephemera Paper Mache Shrine
• Simple bound book. 

All the above if well followed will help you achieve a great piece of art.