Creative Challenge Projects from PJ 

Creating your own color wheel with Brusho inks will deepen your understanding of how these transparent colors blend and provide you with an accurate color reference.

Cut up a piece you are happy with, rearrange another way, create a grid, or cut and weave strips or add some stitching. This can take the form of note cards, collages or a whole new creative discovery. 

Using stencils in unexpected ways can add interest to your mixed media. Try using stucco for texture, wax as a resist and creating subtle patterns for collage or journals. 

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Grab your sketchbook or a piece of watercolor paper, a brush and a couple of colors and let’s get started! Lay down some random color and when it’s dry try doodling over areas with just a black and a white pen. It’s meditative and fun!  

Create an art journal where you can express and explore feelings through images, writing, and just playful mark making. Its a healthy, expressive outlet at the end of the day and something imperfectly beautiful.

Use various heat techniques on mail envelopes to create fabulous texture with just acrylic paints. These high textured pieces will be a great addition to your mixed media art.   

This project is perfect to excite the beginner and experienced alike. My first inspirations were the sunflower fields in Italy and the cosmos along the roadsides of Provence. Perfect for a floral scarf. No experience necessary. This technique works well on cotton tea towels  too!

Introduction to some interpretations of Asian arts that will add interest to your mixed media art. Choose from techniques of paper Kintsugi, Sashiko, Momigami, Shirbori, and Joomchi.

Create one of a kind specialty paper to add to your sketchbook or artwork. Choose from techniques, including; silk paper, fiber paper, laminate tissue and more.

Using black wrinkled tissue paper, soy wax and inks, creat a highly textured silhouette in this reverse batik technique.