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1. Introduction: Hi, Froyle here. Welcome to my studio. I've been painting and exhibiting for over 25 years. Through all the styles and applications that I have explored, I've found that mixed media and collage is my absolute favorite. After making art myself, my passion is to empower you to create art, because art can be the vehicle to help you explore your creative expression and liberate not only your imagination, but your heart as well. In this art class, I'm going to teach you five of my favorite techniques for creating texture with mixed media painting. I will show you how to create great collage paper with white tissue, as well as how to use this simple material for beautiful textural layers. Then we will collage different elements of text and explore the abundance of pace and gels. We will experiment using cling wrap for fur and I will show you the power of powdered pigments. You will love this. This class is suitable for anyone wanting to learn new techniques for creating texture with mixed media paintings. Perfect for beginners. I will take you step-by-step through each technique, showing you which materials to use and how to get the desired results. If you are more advanced in your painting style, then this art class will inspire you, showing you some new techniques and helping you to explore a different and fresh approach. At the end of the class, you'll have more tools in your art-making tool-belt and new ideas for your painting application. What I like about mixed media painting is the endless possibilities for creative exploration. You can follow along exactly like my example, or you can choose your own colors and develop these techniques in your own unique style. I would love to see what you create. So post a photo in the project section. You can choose one of these techniques or you can embrace them all. I can't wait to show you my favorite ways for creating texture with mixed media painting. So let's gather our materials and let's make art.
2. Material List: Here are the fabulous materials I'm going to be using. Now, don't get intimidated by this huge whole of our supplies because it's really not intimidating at all and you don't have to use all of these things and all of these colors. I'm just going to show you exactly what I'm going to use. Also in your resources section, you'll have a whole written list of everything that's here. I just want to show you as well so you know what to look for if you wanted to buy some of these materials. Now, the first lesson we're going to be using white tissue. This is fabulous. You don't have to buy this. You can use recycled white tissue every time you order something online. It comes wrapped in tissue or it comes wrapped in brown paper keep that as well. It's fabulous. I love using recycled white tissue. With the white tissue, I personally love to use these inks. You don't have to use these brands at all. I don't get paid money to sell these brands. You can use whatever brands you like. But I will be using these inks to color the tissue. I will also be using these inks later on in the painting to splash around with the acrylic paints. These are the colors that I'll be using. They work really well together. These pearlescent ones are absolutely beautiful, that leave a beautiful shine. They also are quite metallic, love them. The next section after the tissue, we will be using text. Old book texts from the thrift shop or secondhand bookshop. It comes very cheap when you buy old books. Also, any other texts that you have found. I think I got this from a craft store. Also, card stock has text on it. We'll be using all of these. These are relatively inexpensive to buy or to find. You can find secondhand books quite relatively inexpensive, same with the card stock. It comes in big pads from department stores in craft and scrapbooking sections, so have a look there. In this lesson, we'll also be using a stencil to create texts. This is one that I have. I like the script on it and the text. Also, you can pick those up from different places but I get stencils from StencilGirl or Crafter's workshop or a hundred different places, even the Chinese websites have very cheap stencils. After the text, we're going to be using paste and gels. The paste and gels that I personally love. I like to glue things on with the matte gel medium. Again, you don't have to use these brands that I use. The Liquitex basics brands is a lot more affordable than the professional grade. So have a lookout for that. There's also a lot of other brands that use matte medium. I love to use this for adhering the collage papers. I also like to use the heavy gel gloss for when I'm using stencils, it makes them thick and chunky and I like the full body texture of the stencils when you put it in a heavy gel. The Atelier brand, I like. Like I said, you don't have to use these brands, just look for what the actual paste or gel is that they're selling. Now, also in the paste and gel section, I will be using the Golden light molding paste. This one will set you back some dollars. The Golden brand, love this. It's fantastic. The texture is amazing. I would definitely be using that. I'm also going to be using the Golden crackle paste. You probably can't find crackle paste in a different brand, but personally, for these two types of paste, I really like the Golden ones. Also, I'm going to be use some coarse textured medium. This is a Liquitex basic. Again, it's going to be more affordable than the professional artist brand. Have a try. Try the paste and gels in the more affordable brands and then work your way up to the Golden and see if they find a difference and which ones you like. This is the only Golden paint that I'll be using. It's the iridescent bronze fine. You have to have this. You really have to. You need this paint in your art toolkit because it's amazing. I will be showing you very clearly why I love it. It's gorgeous. You need to have that. That's all there is to it. These Reeves fine artist paints are very affordable. I get them from the stationary warehouse. I'm going to be using a combination of these beautiful warm tones. They are absolutely glorious. They all sit well together. Also, I'll be using the Atelier range of paints in the turquoise. The tinting white is like a pearlescent white. It's very nice. I'm going to use it in a stencil with the text. It's fabulous. Now, acrylic paint is your best friend when it comes to mixed media painting. You can make it thicker by adding the gels and paste, or you can make it thinner by just using it as a glaze. It's fantastic. I'll show you quite a few ways that I use the acrylic paints. I only use acrylic paints. Also, we're going to be using some powdered pigment. In the last section of the five ways of creating texture, I'm using this beautiful copper one which I think it's called super copper. This gold one which I'm not sure what the brand is, but that's Jacquard. We'll put that detail in your class notes in the material list. I've had this one so long, I don't even know what the brand is. It won't cost you very much to buy with these little Jacquard ones, and it's well worth the investment to have a little play with the powdered pigments. They're absolutely stunning. They create an incredible result when sprayed with water. You're also going to need some baby wipes to clean up your mess or maybe some tissues. You're going to need a spray bottle. I have both a little one and I have a bigger one as well, and some brushes. I like to have a few different sizes of brushes for when I'm fiddling with the paint on the canvas. I love using a palette knife. As you can see, this one is my favorite. It's well-worn and a little beat up. Now, the other thing that we're going to be using in our material list is some cling wrap or Glad wrap or Saran wrap depending on where you come from. It's just the plastic film that you put over food to keep it fresh. We're going to be using this to create texture with our beautiful acrylic paints and our inks. It's a fabulous tool for creating texture. I grab that from the kitchen. It's going to be amazing. Like I said, don't get intimidated by all of these things I have on the table. I will be taking you step-by-step through each lesson on five different ways of creating texture. I will show you exactly how I do it, the materials I use so you can follow along or you can choose your own colors and create with your own style. I hope that what I create really inspires you. It's going to be a lot of fun. I absolutely love making texture with mixed media paintings. I think the possibilities are absolutely endless. I'm going to be working on a canvas to show you how to use these fabulous materials and the texts you can create with them. Let's get everything ready. I can't wait to show you what's next.
3. Painting White Tissue: I absolutely love using white tissue for creating texture. There's a few different ways that we can use the white tissue. This is recycled tissue. It's all crumpled. It wrapped around something when I purchased it online. I absolutely love using paper packaging. The resource is free. I love free resources. The crumpledness and the lines on it really don't matter. It's not a problem. It just adds to the texture even if it's ripped or it's got holes in it. No drama at all. Fantastic using recycled white tissue. I'm going to put it on this canvas just right write this and you'll see how beautiful the texture comes out. I'm going to use a matte medium to adhere the tissue. This one I'm using is a Liquitex Basics, easy-peasy. You don't have to use matte medium. I just like using it because it's soft. It's not as sticky as glue and I prefer to brush it on. You don't have to worry when putting white tissue on your canvas, whether or not it tears or if it's crumpled because you're using it to create texture. Just a good amount of adhesive glue or matte medium and you then put your tissue on. I don't like to have sharp edges with my tissue. I like more organic lines so I tear the sharp edges off. I actually like to have the crinkled look of the tissue. I enjoy the texture. There's absolutely no way that you can do this wrong. It's up to you how much you want to use. You can overlap the white tissue. There's really no wrong way of using this to create texture. It's a great way to start. You also can rap the tissue around the sides of the canvas so you can continue, the colors around the sides, and it's just absolutely fabulous for texture. You can put another layer on the top if you've already got some down, it just makes the texture thicker, and creates more layers, which makes it more interesting. You can also use pre-painted white tissue. I love making my own collage paper, and white tissue is one of my absolutely favorite ways of creating beautiful papers to use in mixed media paintings. This is white tissue exactly like this, recycled from packaging, and then I have added these beautiful inks onto the white tissue. Now, when you do this procedure, make sure you put it on a plastic tablecloth. You drop the inks in and you spray it with water. It looks absolutely fabulous. It's one of my favorite ways of creating collage paper. Because then once you have some, it's so easy to put into your painting. Of course, you can make the white tissue with any color combinations. Personally, I love using the acrylic inks because they're strongly pigmented, they're fabulous colors, and they're really easy to use. This is how I make this beautiful tissue like this. It is a very simple application of inks. Or you can use acrylic paints. It's also fabulous for emptying the inks of bottles. If you've got the small fluid bottles, it's really great to empty out the ends of those bottles. It makes absolutely fabulous collage paper. We're going to start this beautiful mixed media painting with the white tissue. You can either put it on and then paint it or you can pre-paint it and use it like this. You want to create a few beautiful shapes. It's a very easy way to start a painting and it's very effective for creating texture. You can paint the white tissue that you've glued onto your canvas, easy-peasy. I'm just using an acrylic paint. It's easy to paint. When you paint it, you can see how beautiful those crevasses are that the tissue has created. The texture looks absolutely beautiful. You can also use the beautiful inks that I like to put on the tissue that works straight onto the canvas. You can do that as well. If you don't want to create separate tissue, you can just create the same effect straight on the canvas. Blue your tissue down and then add your inks and spray it with water. It has the same effect and creates the same beautiful organic lines like when you create the tissue separately. It depends on how you want to approach your painting. Because I'm using acrylic paints and inks, all of them will work together really well. I love the organic flow that's created with the tissue when you spray it with the water and the inks. I loved the way it goes into all of the crevasses and textures of the tissues. I think that's my absolute favorite look. I like it because it looks very stained glass like. I'm going to spray this with water and then I'm just going to leave this now to dry and then we'll move on to the next texture. Now, once your paper is perfectly dry, you want to make sure you at least give it overnight and have a look at it the next day. Now, sometimes it comes off really, really easy, in one big sweep, and that's absolutely fabulous. Sometimes it doesn't. Don't stress out if your tissue gets [inaudible] or rips or tears of your plastic, I hope you put a plastic tablecloth there. Otherwise, you're never going to get it off. Because you're going to use it for collage anyway, so if it rips and tears and it doesn't want to come off easily, sometimes that's caused because you put too much paint on the tissue, too much water on the tissue or the plastic that you've used is causing it to stick. There's a few different reasons. Don't stress out about it. It's collage paper. You're going to be tearing it up anyway. You just have to be patient and work it off that plastic. I'm going to use some of my newly made beautiful painted tissue onto this mixed media painting. Now, this is perfectly dried. You might be able to see the texture that had the first layer of white tissue. I also already put some painted tissue in it and then I added some paint onto the plain white tissue. Now, if you're a little like me, you might add a little bit too much paint. I tend to be a little heavy-handed with my paint application. Now, I'm just going to put some of my newly painted, and beautiful textured tissue paper onto the top of that. With this particular style of painting, you can just keep adding layers until you're happy. There's not one way to rule them all. If you do something in one of the layers and you decide when it's dried that no, that wasn't as great as you'd hoped it was going to be, then you can just create another layer on top. You can change your mind, you can rearrange things. You can just keep adding layers until you're happy with the desired result. I'm just adding a little bit more of the tissue in because I managed to pretty much paint over most of it. But that's okay. All of it create beautiful texture and that's what we're playing with. Don't worry. If you don't like something that you've done in a previous layer, just keep working on it, and keep going over it until you're happy because all of the beautiful layers contribute to the composition. I'm happier with that. That just adds a bit more texture, change of color, and when it dries, this matte medium will be completely transparent.
4. Using Text Collage: The next element that we're going to use for texture without mixed media painting is text itself. I like to use old books with text. They make fabulous texture that look glorious. You can actually paint over them. You can add more layers on top of them. There's also card stock that you can use that has text or writing on it, and also other numerous types of paper that uses text for texture. I'm going to put a few of these elements next onto the canvas. I think I'll just use a bit of all of them. You'll see how beautiful that looks for adding texture to this painting. I'm just going to use the matte gel medium to glue or add here the papers to my canvas. I get book texts from clearly old books from the thrift shop. It's quite inexpensive to use text. You can get them quite easily from secondhand shops. You can also, of course, use your own writing on the painting. That looks quite fabulous. The beauty of this type of painting is in the layers, so don't be afraid to put layer upon layer. You can always change it later as you move along. If you don't like something, you can change it. If something's not working, we can paint over it or you can collage over it or you can add to it. Don't be afraid to put the papers on and to try these ideas because if you don't like it, you can always change it down the track. You've got to at least get the materials and the textures on the canvas to start with because then you can change what's not working later. I like to use a variety of text and multiple layers because I think it looks fabulous. I just like to tear up the hard edges off it, but that's me. You don't have to do it like that. You can create it however you like it. I love the texture of this too. I think it's rather fabulous. I'm going to put this just right over the top. I like the different fonts and I like the different sizes of the text. You can paint over the text liner, or you can leave it, just this raw color. Don't worry about oopsies. We can fix that, sometimes these things happen. I like that. I like the multiple layers, I like the different fonts and the styles of the different texts. I think that looks good. I'm not sure if I'm going to paint over it or just leave it in its natural color. Such decisions down the track. You can paint your text areas. I added some of these golden iridescent bronze fine onto the text areas that I've put down. I'm really loving that. I think it's looking beautiful. I'm happy with how that's come up. I like the different type of texts and the different style of writing. I think that's looking beautiful. There is one other thing that we could add to the text area. We can use text with a stencil. That just creates another different look of putting text into your painting. I'm going to use a pearlescent tinting white the Atelier brand. It's just a real nice soft white and I'm going to mix it with heavy gel gloss. Now why I like to use that is because I like my stencils to be thick and raised up so that they have more textural impact. I've just mixed it here on my very disposable palette, which is basically cheap little side plates from the Dollar shop, and that's what I'm going to use. I'm going to use this text stencil. Not sure where I got it from. I'm just going to use parts of the text writing onto this section of the painting. I'm not doing it, so it's readable. It doesn't matter to me if you can read it or not. I'm just going to do part of the writing. It's just to add texture to the painting it's not to create a book. If you're going to try this with a stencil, don't stress out about which parts of it did work and didn't work because we're just adding texture. We're not writing a book here. I use a palette knife when I'm putting my stencils on because I like the thick gel that I add with them. It is better if you keep your stencils flat. You can take them down but always just being a bit lazy. I didn't type it down but like I said, I'm not worried at all because I'm just creating text. I'm not trying to write something that everyone needs to read. Take the pressure off yourself if you bump it, or smudge it, or mess it up, don't worry about it. We can fix it later. We can paint over it if you don't like it. See, I just like that little bit of text there. I think it looks great. It's interesting. You can wipe some off if you don't particularly like where it's gone, you can use just a baby wipe and wipe some off if it hasn't gone exactly where you want it or it's not looking how you'd like. Just taking these little splotches off here. Now when this half has dried, I'm going to add some more onto this half, but that has to be dried to be able to put the stencil back on the side, or you smudge it. I know it's waiting for things to dry. I like the tango parts of the words and that you actually can't read it. Personally, I like that, like I said, it's just for the textural element. There are other different ways that you can use text. You can use it from all books, you can use it from card stock, you can use it from other textural elements like this printed text onto, I think was like a tissue background that I've found somewhere, probably in a craft store, and you can use it with stencils. You can also write, of course, with a pen, add your own text. You can do that as well. You just have to make sure each layer is dry before you're adding the next layer. Well, that's looking good. That's going to dry. I'm then going to put it on that side. Then we're going to move on to the next lesson.
5. An Abundance of Pastes & Gels: There is an abundance of pastes and gels on the marker. I absolutely love using pastes and gels for texture because there is just so much possibility of what you can do. Now, I use the matte gel medium as you saw to glue on the collage papers of the text. I always use that. I use the Liquitex Basics because it's more affordable and it works beautiful. You also saw in the previous lesson, I used the heavy gel gloss mixed it in with the white paint to create the text stencil. I absolutely love that when I'm doing stencils and I want them to be nice and thick and raised. It's a nice, thick gel that stands up and adds a lot of bulk to the paint. I love using that. Use it all the time for stencils. You can also get, of course, beautiful, even more, textured paste. This is a course texture medium from the Liquitex Basic brand. If you squeeze some out and feel it in your hands, you can feel how thick it is and see how it's gritty. It's almost like it's got sand in it. It's absolutely fabulous. I love it. I love lots of thick texture. On the other extreme, you'll actually find with the golden brand they have a beautiful light molding paste. This particular product, if you feel it in your fingers, is beautiful and soft and creamy. Actually, it's like cream, just don't eat it. It's very light. You can even feel the difference in the physical weight of the product. I love using this for stencils. I've put it on a plane and then paint over it later. I loved doing that. That's what we're going to do. But I want you to have a look at all the pastes and gels that are so possible because truly it's endless what you can create and you're only limited by your imagination. You can make your paint thicker, chunky, full of textual elements. You can get fiber pastes, you can get glass beads. You can get sand. You can get all textures in the pastes and gels. Now the pastes are white or opaque. With the golden brand, it's the polymer mixed with marble dust that gives them a slightly off-white look to them as well. When you mix them with paint, they will make the paint a little lighter. Just know that the paste will make your paint a little lighter. The gels won't change the color of your paint too much because they actually dry transparent. I know it looks opaque and white at the moment, but it's not. It will dry completely transparent being a gel. That's the biggest difference I think between the paste and gel. The paste and the gel are both polymer-based just like your acrylic paint. It's just that the paste have added other bits to them like marble dust. We're going to do a couple of things with these. Now, I love using stencils with both pastes and gels, and I will get my stencils from all over the place. I'm going to, first of all, use this stencil. It's like rocks and lines, and let's just put some light molding paste on. I like to personally use a palette knife with my stencils. I'm not too delicate about the whole process because I feel that I can always fix it later if something happens and I don't like it. I like to use a palette knife. I just put it straight on the stencil pull it off. Voila, there you go. When you use the paste just by itself with stencil make sure you wash it straight away or the paste will stick to the stencil and you'll never get it off. If you don't like an aspect of something that you've put on, you can just wipe it easily straight off while it's still wet. You can control and move things around until it dries. Once it's dry, you're not going to be able to move it, but you can sculpt it while it's still wet. Now, when the paste is entirely dry, then you can paint over it. You can also add the acrylic paint directly to the pastes and gels and use them that way as well. You don't have to use the whole stencil. You can use just part of the stencil to put on some shapes and create that texture. I love the light molding paste because it's soft, it's beautiful to use, it feels lovely to work with, and it has a beautiful textural element to it. Like I said, you can mix the paste and gel with the acrylic paint. I'm going to put some of the course texture paste with this paint. See how gritty it is. It's pretty cool, or we can even hear it. Sounds like you're chewing on sand. See how it has made the color light up. The paste will do that. It's really a fun way to create texture using the pastes and gels. This one is awesome. You can make your own by putting in different elements, but I just loved to use the ones that are so readily available. You can hear the fabulous gritty texture in this particular paste. It's like grinding on sand. That's fabulous. You can create more texture on your painting, by adding other elements to it. This is the course texture paste as you can hear. If I put this on and then if I want to create more shapes or added texture, it's got this beautiful, thick covering of medium to use as the base. You can use fancy texture plates like things like this. You're basically pushing the pattern into the paint to create that textural element. How good does that look? But if you don't have any real fancy texture plates like this, you can use your own texture plates like a piece of bubble wrap. It works absolutely fabulous to create textural marks. Push it into the paint, pull it off, and there we go, beautiful textural marks. There are endless amounts of ways to create textural marks on your painting using pastes and gels and something to create a mark with. This is a piece of textured paper, just plain paper, but it's got this fabulous weave on it, which I love. When you put that into the paint, look how fabulous that looks. I just love it. There are endless opportunities for creating texture with your painting using pastes and gels and something that makes a mark. This is actually a draw liner. I really like it. I like the pattern that it makes. Push it into your paint while it's still wet, and you've got all of these beautiful marks and elements. Have a look around your place and pull out things that you think are going to create beautiful textural marks. Have a play, find some textures that you like, find some things you wouldn't have even thought of, textured papers, draw liner. It's so endless what you can use to create texture on your painting, you just have to be willing to try. When the light molding place is completely dry, you can paint it. It comes up really well painted. It's a beautiful medium. Very easy to use and it has fabulous effects. Of course, you can use the light molding paste already mixed with your acrylic paints and put it through a stencil or add it to your painting that way. It's completely up to you.
6. The Magic of Cling Wrap: Right now you might think it's strange that I have cling wrap on the list of ways to create texture for your mixed media painting, but it is an absolutely fabulous work. I'm just putting paint on, acrylic paint, I haven't put in any paste or gels into this one, although you can do that, but I haven't. I'm just putting it on in a color code deep matter. This is reeves, find that paint. It's very affordable. I get it from the Warehouse Stationery, which is a five-minute walk from my place. It is a very economical paint brand, so it's great for experimenting with and creating paintings that are going to use a lot of paint so you're not going to stress out about how much it costs because that really stifles your creativity, distressing or other things like that, would I want to. Now that's a bit of bronze. A favorite bronze, reeves, the same brand, but in a bronze. Yes, and perhaps a little bit too much, but that's how it goes. Be quite liberal with putting your paint on for this particular technique. What we going to do is create an incredible texture using the acrylic paint and the inks with the cling wrap. You put your paint on, then you want to put some inks on. I'm using the Liquitex brand of inks. I love this particular bronze colors rather gorgeous really anything with a blend makes me happy and this is a magenta. Put these beautiful rich colors on. Then what you need to do is give it a little spray of water to get it moving around. Dissimilar from using the white tissue, except it's on the painting. These you paint the lemon squeezy. Then we're going to put the cling wrap on. You want to make sure you get a good piece of it. You want to cover the area of your painting. Now, there's a couple of ways you can do this. You can let it just sit there and crinkle itself or you can move it around and help crinkle it because the crinkles is what's going to create the texture. Now, unfortunately, this actually has to dry entirely. Then what you do is you pull your cling wrap off and all of the crevasses and beautiful lines and textures of the paints and the inks drying creates all the marks. I know it's very simple, but it's very effective. I absolutely love the texture it creates. You can put something heavy on it, whatever you do to it creates a different texture. If you put a heavy book on this wallet's drawing, it will create a different texture to if you didn't. The more you fiddle with it the more the colors and the inks will blend. It just creates these beautiful lines and textural marks in a very organic peasant. I love it, the only part I don't like about this technique is waiting for it to dry. Now, I have in the past ripped off the cling wrap before that section had dried and that creates a different textural look, quite amazing really. If you do become impatient and you want to rip it off, you will create a different textural mark. Just remember that if you're flicking it off like that, it's quite possible you're going to flip in every way. You want to do it outside or some way that flicking up in the walls of your home because somebody won't be happy with that. There it is. Join me to see how the inks blending down. That's okay, I'm not worried about that. It does have a beautiful look to it in itself. Look at that, that's pretty nice. The beautiful part about creating this is that you don't quite know what you're going to get. It can be disappointing if it doesn't turn out how you want it but sometimes these things that are happening here, it can look absolutely amazing. I left these for a couple of days. Now I'm going to peel the cling wrap off and hopefully, you'll be able to see the amazing texture. Now it's not entirely dry, no it's not but I think it's dry enough for you to see what it is that I'm [inaudible] about with the beautiful texture. It's dried in a few places, not all places but I think that's okay. You have beautiful, these lines are here. That's from the cling wrap and the lines in here. It creates a really interesting texture. When that is completely dried, then we'll see what we can do next with this area. This top section here is not dry yet, so I can't actually touch it but I'm just going to add some of the bronze down the bottom here so that it ties the color in. Not sure yet what I'm going to put at the bottom here, but it will be beautiful. I'm just going to add some of the bronze while I'm waiting for this section to dry. This is the golden, iridescent bronze, fine. I love this color, you have to have this color in your kit. It's essential to your life to have this color. If you notice, I actually spray it with water because the pigment in the bronze releases patina, which is like a turquoise grain lightweight, copper and bronze age as it gets a petite or about it. This particular paint color does that when you spray it with water so it's quite fascinating. Can you see there how it's releasing the patina and turquoise color like it's being aged, I like that. It's not dry, but that never stops me from fiddling with things. I'm wanting to blend this section here into this section here. I'm just mixing in the same color into the bronze areas. You can see how fabulous this looks as it releases the patina color. It's quite fascinating and you can see there the beautiful cling wrap texture that it's made. It's not actually completely dry, but that never stops me from poking at things. I wanted to add some of the same color into this area with the bronze so that it would blend more. As you have a closer look, you can see how fabulous that cling wrap texture is becoming.
7. Powered Pigment Power: While there's so much water on the canvas, it's a perfect opportunity to put on some powdered pigment. Now, you have to be careful with powdered pigment. You have to make sure you're not going to breathe it in for a start. What I personally like to do is just touch it into these areas where there's a lot of fluid or water and then allow it to just move freely as it wants to flow. I love using padded pigment because it creates incredible textures, highly experimental. You can't control exactly how it's going to look and you just have to experiment to get it exactly how you'd like it to be. Now, I like to just tap it on like this. I've got it on a pallet knife and I just like to tap it so that it carefully drops into the places that I want it to be. Of course, you can imagine sometimes this is successful and sometimes it's not. You don't want to put on too much, that's the trick is putting on a little bit, not too much, so you just have to be quite careful when you're putting it on your painting. It's like adding spice to the cooking, a little bit is amazing, too much and you can't swallow it. Don't stress out if it doesn't do exactly what you want it to do. Now, then I will give it a little bit of a spray with water because it moves it around so it doesn't just sit in blobby marks. As it dries, same with the paint, it will create a different look and until it dries, you're not going to be really 100 percent sure if you're happy with it or not. Give it a spray, hope for the best, and see how it comes up when it dries. It does create a beautiful texture. This one I'm using is just a gold powdered pigment, it's called rich gold. I'm really not sure what the brand is because I've had it for such a long time. As you can see my little baffle is a little beat up, so you only need a little bit at a time and it just adds an incredibly different texture to the painting. Of course this has to be done on the top of the areas where you've been painting and then let it dry and see how beautiful it might look. The powdered pigment with the water will run into all the crevices of the texture that you've already created with the cling wrap. See how now it's running into all these beautiful lines and crevices that the cling wrap has made. Then with the thick acrylic and the bronze paint that I put on, the padded pigment is going to look just beautiful. I'm really liking this area here where the patina was released from the bronze paint. Can you see all the green in this area around here? I think it looks absolutely fabulous. I'm going to enhance that by putting a little bit of acrylic paint on there just to emphasize that some more. Also, I didn't remember the brand name of the gold pigment but I have got this one to show you. This is a Jekyll brand, absolutely beautiful, super copper, look at that, glorious colors. I will put the name of the brands and the paints that I'm using in this project into a materialist in your resources section, so make sure you have a look at that. If you're wondering what the powdered pigment is, it'll be there in your notes and you can buy these relatively easy. Just remember, don't inhale it when you're using it because that won't be good for you. I'm going to pour a little bit of this beautiful copper on it, as I'm dropping in this turquoise paint. Like I said, it works best if you've got wet paint or water, or even a medium, you can use a gel medium with the powdered pigment and that works really well too. I'm just going to add a little bit more turquoise into this area and then I'll probably drop in some of the copper, the beautiful copper. This turquoise is quite a transparent color, so I'm doing a really light layer of paint on it. You can still appreciate all of the beautiful layers underneath. That's the beauty of a mixed media painting is a lot of layers that create interest and texture and you just keep working on it until you're happy. I'm just going to now drop in some of these beautiful copper, look at that color, oh my gosh, that is just glorious. Put a little bit on my palette knife and then just drop it in. Sometimes it goes exactly where I want and sometimes it doesn't. This copper powdered pigment is just truly glorious. Give it a little spray, give it some movement. As I showed you, some of the pigment moves and blends in with the paint and some of it stays in its powdered look which is just beautiful. I like the difference, I like what it does with the texture and we'll see how that dries.
8. Just One More: I'm just going to add one more of these beautiful paste. This is the golden crackle paste. It's just a glorious consistency. Look at that. It looks like whipped cream, it's beautiful. It does what it says it's going to do, it creates cracks. You might think that's really strange that I would want to create cracks, but it does make a really beautiful texture. I've got a little mound of meringue-looking substance on the plate there. A tiny bit of turquoise that I've been using throughout the painting. I'm going to put it on top of this other turquoise area because I think it just needs a bit of a lightened color. It mixes well with paint. You can also use it completely plain and white. You don't have to mix it with pipe. Now the thicker you put on the crackle paste, the bigger the texture marks and the cracks will be. It does take a few days to dry. You are going to have to be patient. The thing is with this particular application and style of creating art, if something doesn't work the way you'd hoped it to work, you can just paint right over the top. You can add collage, you can add another layer. The beauty of working with a mixed media approach like this is you really don't have to be stuck with what you've done. If something hasn't worked out, if I don't like the color, if doesn't go the way I want, I can just change it. I can put another layer of paint over it. I can add some colors, papers to it. There's so many ways you can fix your mixed media painting if it hasn't gone exactly the way you want. Don't stress. Allow yourself to create freely. If it doesn't work out, there are ways you can fix your painting once it's dry. Now if this doesn't work how I'm hoping, then I'll just paint over the top or I'll even collage a piece of paper on top of it. You have to be brave, have courage, and allow yourself to make mistakes. Now I have to leave this to dry, and we'll see how the cracks look. I'm hoping the dark turquoise will come through the cracks and that would make it look very interesting and very textured. We'll see if my idea works or not. Look, how fabulous this crackle paste turned out. I absolutely love it. That's the texture that it creates. The thicker amount of paste you put on, the bigger the cracks. See the smaller amount of paste creates more smaller cracks, but I think it's absolutely fascinating. It creates an interesting texture. Now you can add the paint in it, 10 percent of paint to crackle paste, or you can wait for it to dry and paint on top of it. Totally fascinating, adds another interesting texture to your painting. I think it's just wonderful.
9. A Lesson in Composition: All of the textural elements are now in place. We have the white tissue that's being painted and added that takes four different styles of text in this area here. Then we've got the beautiful paste and gels with the light molding paste, the coarse texture medium and the crackle paste looking fabulous. Then we have the beautiful clean wrap area with the acrylic paint and the powdered pigment. It's looking just glorious. Although having a look at all of the colors, I'm thinking perhaps, I need to lighten up. I'm going to put some areas of some pearlescent silver ink at the top here just to lighten the mood a bit. Then I'm going to tweak some of the colors. All of the layers that you add to your painting, contribute to the beautiful textures. Don't worry if you don't like something about your painting, you can change it. You can add to it. You can create another layout or you can fix the colors. If that's not working for you, you just have to keep working on it until you're happy. I'm really happy with the papers and the textures on this top section. I'm just going to lighten it up by putting some of the FW Pearlescent inks. This is the same ink that I put into the tissue in the beginning. Absolutely beautiful. I'm just wanting to soften this area and possibly run some of the drips down just to create a little bit more of a flow. I absolutely love these inks. They're so versatile. You can use them for so much. If you do something like this and you put on too much, you can just wipe it off again. No worries at all. I'm going to let that run and see what that looks like if it's the actual result that I'd like. That has run all over the place and I'm really liking it. The thing about composition that you want to think about with your painting, is you want to repaint some of the shapes and colors. If you notice in the painting I'm working on, I've got the turquoise, a lighter version of the turquoise, the deep meta color, and the bronze. I've repeated these colors a few times in the painting because that helps to strengthen the composition. Now I'm running the silver pearl down this section to unite more of these shapes together with that common thread of the beautiful silver pearl. It's already got the deep meta in these colors and the bronze, like it has down here. That's just going to pull those areas together. I like how these area is looking. The beautiful pearlescent is running into all of those shapes of the stencils. That's looking fabulous. This top section up here looks great. I'm loving this bottom section here. It's intense. I love it. Now I need to do something with this section here to make it more uniform with the other areas. I'm adding some of my colors onto here to really look at and think about what is going to work to draw those two sections together. This is some of the bronze. These are the colors of my pallet that I've been working with. That's the golden iridescent bronze. This one's the raves bronze. You can see how different those two bronzes are. That's more of an antique bronze and that's got more of an orange base to it. Then we've got the deep meta and the magenta. These are the colors that I've been working with, plus the turquoise. If you use similar colors all throughout your painting, it's going to pull it all together, more of a uniform composition. Sometimes you just have to have a little fiddle with how you want it to look. If it doesn't go exactly how you want, then you just have to paint over it and change it. Sometimes you don't know what you want until you start putting it on your painting. Then it's either, that looks good or, heck, no, what was I thinking? Sometimes that's just the only way forward. I'm liking that pale turquoise underneath the bronze. I'm using a bit of a combination of both. Because as we get down further towards this end, these colors are a lot warmer. What I'm doing is called scumbling and that's just when you're putting a light layer on top of the texture to enhance it with a dry brush. Although I will probably add water to it because I like to blend my colors. But it's a great way to put the paint onto the texture surfaces. I'm going to add some of this beautiful light turquoise into this area here. This is a very textured area. It's got the course textural paste on it. It's the one that sounds like you're crunching on sand. It's fabulous. Love it. As you can see, adding more paint to adjust the highlights the beautiful textures. Don't be afraid to try other colors or to change the way your texture paste has dried because you can just paint over it if your idea doesn't work. Not all my ideas work and sometimes I have to go back in and change things and that's okay. That's what creativity is all about. You just have to have the courage to try and tackle the adventure and see where it leads you. See how you can see the darker turquoise coming through and it makes the texture look fabulous like this one. You can see the light turquoise coming through, so it blends it together more. I'm going to extend this color a little into the crackle paste because it's got the same color underneath. It's all going to blend really nice just so the edges aren't so hard. I love having the other colors peeking through the textures. Absolutely fabulous. That's what you want for a mixed media painting. You want lots of textures, an interesting element to it. You can keep changing the shapes until you're happy. Just going to add a few drops of the ink and the galactic blue. This one is in the tissue paper at the top. Also add tiniest bit of this beautiful waterfall green because it's in a little piece of the tissue at the top as well. It's then going to bring this color down this section of the painting because it just needs a little bit. Loving the shapes of this texture plate that I've pushed into the coarse medium. I'm going to put a little bit of the silver in, continue it down from the top. It's all looking rather fabulous. Now it will dry lighter. As it dries, it won't be as intense in its colors because it will soak into the texture paste so I can't wait for it to dry and see how it looks. I'm loving this section with the cling wrap and the powdered pigment. They're absolutely gorgeous colors. I'm just going to drop a little bit of that beautiful galactic blue and green into the areas down here so that it all just continues in the color scheme. Of course, not too much would be good. I tend to get a little in the end. Not too much, just a little bit to continue those colors direct down to the bottom of the canvas. All these colors work really well. I'm just going to have to wait for it to dry to see how good it really looks. Have fun with all of these beautiful ways to create texture. I'd love to see what you create.
10. Until Next Time: Thank you for joining me on this creative adventure. I truly hope you've enjoyed the art class, and that you've learned something inspiring. Which of my techniques did you like the best? I'd love to see a photo in the project section. Give me a shout out if you have any questions or you're stuck on something that's not particularly working as well as you'd like. There are always way to fix everything. You can find out more of who I am on my website, froyleart.com, and of course you can find me on Facebook and Instagram. You can also join my private Facebook group, Creative Adventures Making Art, and we can continue the conversation to talk about all things creative. I'll put the links in the resource section, along with the materials list. Now maybe you don't have to use all of the materials that I have used, but I do want to show you exactly the art supplies, so if you want to achieve the same results, you know how to do that. Have a look at my other Skillshare classes. I have quite a few different techniques and pending applications for you to try. I absolutely love creating these art classes for you. Join me in the studio again, and happy painting.