Tantalizing Textures in Mixed Media Art with Patti Euler
Learn how to create a unique and creative form of mixed-media paper art
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Wait! Don’t throw those magazines away. They are about to get a whole new life. How would you love to learn a new mixed-media art technique using different paper types and unique products that can alter the paper for an incredible effect? In this online course, you will discover the art of selecting the right magazines to extract diverse textures, colors, and patterns, enhancing the richness of your creations. Welcome to Patti Euler’s world of Tantalizing Textures in Mixed Media.
This is not your average paper art project. Under Patti's guidance, you'll create stunning artworks to display in your living space, be gifted to loved ones, or even find a place in your collection for potential sales. Patti Euler, the master of her craft, breaks down her techniques and methods, ensuring you will have confidence and achieve success every time.
In this course Patti shares:
- Her favorite supplies and materials
- How to create a grid on the substrate
- Choosing the best magazines
- How to choose the best images from the paper
- How to precisely cut the papers
- How to build a balanced composition
- How to create a glue-resist effect
- Patti's technique for altering the paper
- How to add color back into the paper
- How to make spontaneous decisions
- How to precisely glue down the paper tiles
Once you learn Patti’s techniques, you can create the project she demonstrates in this course and use these papers for art journaling, collage, assemblage, and other projects.
Patti holds nothing back, sharing her secrets, tips, and tricks for this incredibly new course.
Patti has included a PDF for downloading with her favorite supplies and resources!
Your Instructor
Patti Euler is the owner, driving force, and creative spirit behind The Queen’s Ink, a unique retail shop and studio overflowing with the finest in mixed media arts supplies, paints, papers, and much more, meant to inspire creativity in all who enter her royal domain. She also is an artist who is always passing on the skills she has developed to others, and exploring new mediums and techniques within her own work. Patti’s goal is to help people “Refine their technique and transform their art” by acting as a catalyst for artists, from the novice to the skilled artisan.
Following a 27-year corporate career as a National Account Manager for AT&T and Lucent technologies, she turned her attention to the role of creative entrepreneur and visionary. Her personal artwork has evolved over the years by exploring and finding opportunities to make unexpected, creative pieces, using unusual materials, and quirky found objects. She has won awards for her ManneqArt sculptures, and has had work featured at the Ocean City Arts Center. Methods employed in these pieces have brought a new energy and excitement to Patti’s mixed media art journey. Patti is also a Golden Artists Educator. You can see more of Patti’s art at her studio in Savage Mill.
Patti’s warmth and vibrancy has touched the lives of many throughout the 21 years she has reigned at The Queen’s Ink. Her generous spirit flows through everything she touches and her classes are full of laughter.
Course Curriculum
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StartIntro and personal interview with Patti and Tami (5:50)
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StartPDF for download. Patti's suggested tools. materials, and resources
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StartCourse overview (0:51)
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StartMaterials tour (2:35)
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StartPainting the surface (2:05)
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StartCreate a grid design (2:58)
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StartHow to choose the best images from the papers (5:47)
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StartHow to cut the paper into square tiles and audition placement of the tiles (4:17)
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StartComposition overview. Glue application technique (9:30)
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StartPatti's technique for altering the paper (10:37)
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StartAdding color to the paper tiles (9:07)
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StartMaking spontaneous changes and decisions (9:24)
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StartGluing the tiles down (8:28)
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StartWrap up and Thank you! (1:00)