Description

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Collage, paint and draw to explore a new side of mixed-media art and go off the beaten path

Celebrate the day-to-day journey of life as you create imaginative mixed-media projects. In Collage, Paint Draw, you will learn how to use heart-felt images as a starting point to jump into the world of mixed-media art, materials and techniques. Using symbols such as the heart, the home, a child's toy, and a vintage dress, you'll learn to try something (everything ) new. You'll learn how to use tools and materials in both traditional and creative ways and to make art that comes from the heart.

Paint what you love & love what you paint

- More than 30 techniques including drawing, painting, adding texture and more
- More than 40 diverse materials featured, from the everyday (pencils, paint, gel and texture mediums) to the unique (hardware store tapes and texture additive for paint, twine, wire and more)
- More than 30 mixed-media projects with simple, meaningful motifs.

About the Author

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Sue Pelletier is an artist, mother and teacher, not always in that order. She has taught elementary school art in Dover, MA for 25 years. She has been published several times in Cloth Paper Scissors, as well as Somerset Studio and various other Stampington magazines. Sue's artwork has been on four magazine covers. She also has two DVD's out with Interweave, featuring textural surfaces and innovative ways to use mediums in your art. Sue teaches a few online classes and teaches internationally with large mixed media venues such as Create and Art Is You, as well as smaller more intimate venues in studios and shops around the country. She has also been a guest columnist for Create Mixed Media.