Welcome to the Studio!
Hello, it’s Froyle here! I’m so happy to invite you back into my studio for the next chapter of our creative journey. As a mixed media artist with over three decades of experience, I love creating richly layered, expressive artworks — and even more, I love helping you build confidence in your own creative voice through play, process, and intuition.

In this twelfth chapter of our adventure — Abstract Expressionism in Collage — we step into a freer, more spontaneous way of working. This class is about movement, gesture, colour, and mark-making. It’s about letting go of perfection, loosening control, and allowing your art journal pages to become a space where you can explore without needing to “get it right.”

About the Class
Art journaling and collage offer a beautiful place to experiment — a space where you can respond, layer, and discover what you love, without pressure or expectation.

In this section of the course, we’ll journey through Days 78 to 84, creating a series of seven abstract, mixed media journal pages inspired by the spirit of abstract expressionism. Using the Gelli plate, painted papers, stencils, bold marks, and intuitive collage, you’ll explore how line, colour, and texture can create energy and structure — even when the work is loose and spontaneous.

We begin with Day 78: Line First, Everything Else Later, using line as the foundation of your page. You’ll start with drawn, scratched, painted, or stamped lines — even printing linear marks on the Gelli plate — then respond intuitively with colour, collage, and texture, letting the lines guide the composition.

On Day 79: Designing with Dynamic Energy, we explore movement and gesture. You’ll create a collage that feels alive with rhythm and momentum, using bold marks, angled layers, and directional flow that carries the eye across the page.

Day 80: Colour Field Study slows everything down and invites you into immersion. Inspired by colour field painting, you’ll work with larger areas of colour, subtle overlaps, and restraint, noticing how colour relationships create mood and atmosphere.

With Day 81: Experimental Mark Making, we shift into pure exploration. You’ll test tools, textures, and unexpected mark-making ideas — letting curiosity lead — and then transform those marks through collage and layering.

On Day 82: Colourful Chaos, we build complexity through layered printing, overlapping shapes, and intuitive decisions. This prompt is about trusting that harmony can emerge through repetition, contrast, and the slow accumulation of colour and texture.

Day 83: Creating From the Other Side invites you to loosen control even further by working with your non-dominant hand. You’ll scribble, draw, and make a mess — and then turn those awkward, imperfect marks into a unique collage that surprises you.

Finally, in Day 84: Crafting Collage in Combination, you’ll bring the week together by combining any of the approaches that resonated most. You’ll create a final journal page guided by instinct, reflecting on what challenged you, what felt natural, and how abstraction has expanded your collage practice.

By the end of this class, you’ll have a collection of expressive abstract pages that reflect not only the techniques you explored, but the beginnings of your own artistic language — the marks, colours, and rhythms that feel like you.

Who Is This Class For?

This class is all about how you respond to each prompt — there’s no right or wrong way to create. Whether you’re new to collage or you’ve been making mixed media art for years, you’ll find plenty here to inspire you, stretch you, and support you.

I’ll guide you step by step through each lesson, sharing the exact techniques and materials I use, while always encouraging you to adapt the prompts to suit your own style. For more experienced artists, this week offers a powerful opportunity to loosen up, take risks, and deepen your relationship with process-driven art-making.

So gather your materials, open your art journal, and let’s create together — one mark at a time, one layer at a time.
I look forward to seeing what you create, Cheers Froyle

Deborah

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