Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Explore Mixed Media and Collage Landscape Painting Ideas
See how to turn a watercolor into a fresh mixed media landscape with painted borders, collage strips, and layered patterns for extra visual interest.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Free tutorials and courses on loose and expressive painting in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media. Beginners and experienced artists alike can learn to simplify, loosen up, and paint with freedom.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
How to Paint an Urban Landscape Using Mixed Media
Learn how to revive a watercolor cityscape using mixed media collage borders, bold acrylic details, and creative layering techniques.
Drawing Tutorials
Semi-Blind Contour Drawing
Think of your art time like a pie chart: some slices for finished art, some for exploration, and some for fundamentals. This semi-blind contour drawing exercise builds confidence and sharpens observation so you can elevate your drawing skills.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Painterly Flower Painting with Acrylics
Explore the world of abstract art and mixed media, creating an abstract flower painting with acrylics. Video included, Let’s go!
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Painterly Mixed Media Flowers with Collage Borders
Learn how to turn a watercolor into a lively mixed media floral still life with collage borders, bold strokes, and vibrant on-surface color mixing.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Mixed Media Flower Painting with Collage Borders
Paint your flowers in the center. Build the magic around the edges. How I discovered that putting collage around a painting instead of inside it creates instant depth and draws the eye exactly where you want it to go.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Painterly Collage Techniques for Loose, Mixed-Media Flowers
This floral still life started on a recycled “palette paper,” layered with a colorful collage border and painted loosely with acrylics for a fresh, textured finish.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Watercolor and Acrylic Mixed Media Demonstration
This tutorial demonstrates how to enhance existing watercolor paintings through mixed media applications. Using pattern elements and selective acrylic additions, you'll learn approaches to rescuing bad art.
Landscape Painting Tutorials
What Makes an Expressive Landscape Painting?
What makes landscape painting expressive isn't technique - it's genuine connection to place and some emotional confidence.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
What Actually Makes Painting Expressive
Expression isn't something you set out to create. You don't wake up and say 'Today I'm going to paint expressively.' Real expression happens naturally when the right conditions are in place - and those conditions have more to do with confidence than technique.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
Watercolor Coastal Landscape
This tutorial demonstrates a wash-dominated approach to coastal landscape painting, emphasizing how to let watercolor's natural properties drive the construction while maintaining compositional control.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Four Studio-Tested Ways to Start Loose, Expressive Paintings
I used to freeze in front of blank canvases until I discovered something that changed everything: use your canvas as your mixing palette first. By the end of a painting session, you have spontaneous strokes and random colors - the perfect expressive beginning.