Push Your Creative Boundaries: 31 Mixed Media Explorations
All levels | 4 hours 27 min
Push Your Creative Boundaries: 31 Mixed Media Explorations
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Even experienced artists need help getting into the creative flow sometimes. Drawing from her own practice as an artist and printmaker, Risa Iwasaki Culbertson designed this daily series to encourage artistic exploration by employing a playful, multimedia approach. With exuberance and irreverent style, Risa leads you through sets of three artistic mediums - illustration, paper, and paint - applied to ten perspective-shifting topics and prompts.  No matter your skill level, you’ll build a toolbox for combatting creative block, trusting your creative instincts, and developing your unique artistic voice.
Here’s what you’ll need:
  • Flat-laying Multimedia sketchbook - Risa uses a Midori medium
  • Assorted pens - Risa uses a Pilot GTec .4, Sakura Pigma Sensei pen, and Zebra ClickArt Marker pens
  • Sharpie Magnum
  • Pencil
  • Paint brushes, including a 1/2” flat stroke brush, 1/4” chiseled flat brush, and a short liner brush for details
  • Holbein Acryla Gouache set 
  • Acrylic paints in red, blue, yellow, black, and white
  • Assorted colors of construction paper or card stock
  • UHU clear glue stick
  • Tape
  • Scissors
  • Cutting mat and X-acto knife
  • Palette
  • Cup of water
  • Ruler (optional)
  • Small notepad (optional)
  • String, yarn or thread
  • Piece of foam or sponge cut 1-2”
Downloads:
Learn how to:
  • Reuse recycled materials to make art
  • Shift your perspective
  • Play with materials to understand the medium 
  • Find inspiration in artistic limitations
  • Build a toolbox of ideas to break through creative blocks
  • Gain confidence by going outside your comfort zone
What you'll get:
  • Easy-to-follow video lessons on how to use mixed-media prompts to work through creative blocks
  • 31 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
  • Detailed supply list and PDF with reference photos
  • Step-by-step instructions by multimedia artists Risa Iwasaki Culbertson
  • The ability to leave comments, ask questions and interact with other students
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Push Your Creative Boundaries: 31 Mixed Media Explorations Reviews
139 users recommended this class to a friend
Colleen LaBrosse
Great ideas to get you started on a project. Love the contrast colored spoon, fork, knife....that WOULD be great on a shirt. Love her egg pin! Also how more and more of the background wall was filled in every day!
10 hours ago
 
Erica
Excellent ideas.
May 4, 2024
 
Jennifer Krasovic
alot to learn, very interesting
March 4, 2024