MORE ideas for Mona Lisa Metal Leaf! This time I am using the gel plate and a stencil to create decorative paper without metal leaf adhesive. All the fun and NO MESS!

For Today’s Tidbit I’m playing with Marabu Art Crayons SHIMMER! I’m adding some big, bold, buttery accent marks to a finished floral collage that’s headed to one of my Patrons this month!

Barb and I are proud to introduce our Fabulous Florals Set #2 of Rice Papers. The first set was such a hit we decided to release more images. They adhere smoothly, making them ideal for adding various mixed media accents. I love mounting them on small wood panels for easy display, while Barb prefers incorporating them into her journal pages.

MORE ideas for Mona Lisa Metal Leaf! This time I am adding a stencil pattern on top of it with Ultramarine Blue Golden Fluid Acrylics for a unique looking pattern.

Sgraffito is a decorative technique that involves scratching through a surface coating to reveal a contrasting color underneath. The word comes from the Italian word graffito, which means "to scratch". In this video I will show you how to scratch through the surface of paint on your gel plate, add a repeating pattern into the negative spaces, and how to pull the print with a contrasting color which will ultimately be underneath!

Layer, layer, layer....It's the secret to creating intricate prints on the gel plate. But it’s not just about adding layers—it's about carefully combining different shapes and sizes of stencil patterns with both translucent and opaque paint colors.

Layer, layer, layer....It's the secret to creating intricate prints on the gel plate. But it’s not just about adding layers—it's about carefully combining different shapes and sizes of stencil patterns with both translucent and opaque paint colors.

I just LOVE decorative art store papers But if you purchase these in bright, bold colors, they are going to fade. Trust me. I started out using purchased papers exclusively in my collage artwork and I found this out the hard way. YIKES! So I set out to figure out how to still incorporate these beautiful papers with metallic accents into my fine art.

This week I am sharing techniques for creating soft, organic edges with my Art Nouveau foam stamps. What’s the secret ingredient? WATER!! Let’s go check it out…

Barb and I are proud to introduce our Fabulous Florals Rice Papers. I love mounting them on small wood panels for easy display, while Barb prefers incorporating them into her journal pages. These papers, featuring images from my original artwork, offer endless possibilities for your mixed media projects.

In this week's Tutorial Tidbit Barb and I are collaborating once again on something AWESOME! We have printed my Black Eyed Susan watercolor artwork on rice paper so that you can put together your own version of my peacock collage artwork. And we are giving away 25 pieces of art we created together!

This week I am having way too much fun gel printing with my all-NEW Patterns for Layering Set #3. Barb and I will go through the designs with you and demonstrate how to use them in gel printing to create a complex, layered effect.

This week I am sharing techniques for creating brown collage papers . I am using the Shuji Gami rice paper roll (18” x 30’) because it tears with beautiful fuzzy edges AND it allows me to create a large amount of paper at one time.

This week Barb and I are enjoying the process of stamping iCraft Deco Foil adhesive with my new Art Nouveau foam stamp designs.

This week Barb and I are playing with Golden High Flow Acrylics, water, and Carnival Wet Strength Tissue Paper. We got some amazing and unexpected results with these pigment rich, intense colors.

Announcing fun projects with my second set of ALL NEW Funky Florals Rice Paper 2 designs with Joggles. These are reproductions from my original artwork on wonderful quality rice paper, printed in Italy!

This week I am sharing a video from my online Landscape Collage Techniques workshop that exemplifies the concept of creating transitional collage paper. You can apply this very same technique to create light to dark colors for shading with soft blends, colorful transitional blends for flowers, light to medium to dark blends in greens for trees and grass.

Let’s have some FUN with combining stencils and molding paste to create a totally NEW design that can be used to make fabulously textured gel prints–collagraph printing plates.

Announcing fun projects with my ALL NEW Funky Florals Rice Paper designs with Joggles. These are reproductions from my original artwork on wonderful quality rice paper, printed in Italy!

This week Barb and I are experimenting with alternate ways to apply color to foam stamps for mixed media. Barb is using the new Art Nouveau foam stamp designs with acrylic ink for some organic variegated color and I am applying color in very specific areas of the design with Stabilo Woodys.