Art Journal Tutorial - Abstract Mixed Media Painting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.พ. 2022
- In this video I demonstrate and explain the creative process I use to make an abstract, mixed media painting from start to finish. Materials used: acrylic paint, graphite, charcoal, and collage.
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I’m struggling to get started. I need more collage pieces so I’ve been painting patterns on paper. I’m the lady with the broken foot getting around on my non motorized scooter. I need at least one hand to steer. I want so badly to create and I’m not going to be able to wait until I’m up and running. Saw my doc and he said 4 more weeks but probably much longer. Oh well, life’s challenges. We all have them. Thank you Jackie for being here.❤
Paper patterns - genius, Lorraine! Healing and creating - you're a superhero! Sending healing vibes your way! ❤️
I absolutely love this! Who ever thought that watching someone paint could be so exciting. I have recently started to go back to collages and paintings that I thought were finished, adding more paint, paper and marks. It's so much fun! Watching you is inspiring. I love what you create!
Hi Patricia! What a nice thing to hear - thank you so much! So glad to have you watching! ❤️❤️❤️
I really love what you do, thanks!
Thanks, Deb! I’m so glad to hear it! ❤️❤️❤️
I loved your voiceover! I watch TH-cam videos at night when getting ready for bed, so it’s nice to hear a calm, soothing voice and relaxing music. I agree with you on so many points! It’s just paint and there are no mistakes, just interesting twists in the road. I look forward to seeing more videos from you!
Oh that’s so nice to hear - thank you! I also watch you tube videos when I’m getting ready for bed - I’m a sucker for time lapse art videos (and late night talk shows 😆). It’s so interesting to watch the twists and turns that artists take along the way, isn’t it? ❤️
Absolutely Breathtaking. I am so happy I found you on here!!! I love your pieces! So very inspiring to me where I am at in my artistic journey!!!
Thanks so much! ❤️
I absolutely love these. Those colours are awesome together.
I love watching and seeing how the art grows and grows. It's a bit like a flower. It starts with a shoot and bit of green but then after some growth the bud starts to form and then the flower gradually emerges.
I loved the reveal of the edge tape being removed. It's amazing what a difference it makes.
As I was watching this video I thinking about my approach and thoughts about that first layer being covered. I suppose if there are any collage pieces you really like, just don't use them as base layers, add them later.
I have learnt to listen to the art and not my head. When my head thinks it knows better my art piece usually veers off course. It's hard to explain but the art tells me what it wants to be.
Your videos really excite me to create. 💜💜💜
Aww, that's so nice to hear - thank you! I'm so glad. you're feeling inspired! ❤️
I appreciate you being so honest! Sometimes, when I get stuck, I just want to give up and tell everyone I can't paint anymore. I lost my "mojo", I'm a fraud, a rank amateur, etc. Ha ha! It's not true, but it certainly feels that way, sometimes. 😅
Oh yes, every artist feels this way at times. You’re not alone ❤️ The key is to keep showing up no matter what. Sooner or later you move past it. And then it will show up later on…. So you keep showing up and so on ☺️❤️
I enjoyed watching this process, thank you for sharing. 😍🎨
Thanks Natasha - I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing - it is really helpful to hear your inner dialog regarding the decisions you make
You’re more than welcome, Jacqueline! I’m so glad you’re finding it helpful! ❤️
This was so encouraging to see: all the stages, the struggle, the changes. Not to mention the fantastic end result. It gives me the confidence to keep going with a sketchbook painting that I'm currently struggling with. Thank you! ✨️
I’m so glad you found jt helpful! ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing your process. Great work.
Thanks so much, Ellen! ❤️
I’m delighted that I found you!!!!
Me too! ❤️
Hi Jackie, thank you for sharing your gift with all of us. I am new to your TH-cam Chanel and I really enjoy listening to your thoughts and watching your process. I would love to watch them in real time too. I truly appreciate you taking your time to share with us. I look forward to spending more time with my art while watching and listening to yours!
Sam, thank you so much for your kind words! Happy to share art making time with you!
Whoops - I initially replied from my personal account! 😆 Thank you so much, Sam! ❤️
So glad you’ve decided to do this!! It was great seeing you and learning how you make that beautiful work!! Keep it up!!
Oh thank you so much for your kind words! I’m trying! 😘😘😘
Jackie great going! I love your approach & attitude. Honest pushing through! Your finished artwork turned out really great!
Fantastic design. You got it!😊
Thank you so much, Diane! I appreciate your support and encouragement! ❤️❤️❤️
Jackie, I am still bingeing through your videos. This is one of my favorites. I loved how you persevered, especially on the left. Both sides ended as beautiful paintings. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for your kind words, Bridgett! So glad to have you in this community! ❤️
I love your process. Thank you !
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I'm really not doing it yet, but I plan to start. I enjoyed it.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful work how talented are
Thank you! ❤️
Ce n’est que de la peinture mais quelle peinture !!!!! Un réel plaisir de regarder vos vidéos et d’ecouter vos commentaires. Il faut savoir se perdre pour trouver la bonne sortie mais l’action de recouvrir est tellement difficile quelquefois. Vous travaillez vite et je pense que c’est effectivement une bonne solution contre la frustration. Merci pour tout
Oh thank you so much! These are two of my favorite paintings that I’ve made in the last year or so ❤️❤️❤️
I loved every minute of it! Fantastic!!
Thank you, Grete! ❤️❤️❤️
Very late to this video but it is helpful. Yes I always struggle, mainly with this embedded or even conditioned thing that there has to be a preconceived ‘picture’ as a start point. So I really value what I am leaning from you about spontaneity and the destruction of the preconceptions is also part of the process. I also have a sort of rush to completion thing, I swear this comes from art education! It is a big conundrum for me because I am now in later years and realise that I need to escape from a lot of the things I never really thought much about before because I found and still find I am not that interested in the thought out stuff.
I really like your pages especially, once you detaped them. Watching your process was good too. I think I will tape something saying ‘It’s just paint’ somewhere to remind me!
Yes - keep the “it’s just paint” sign in front of your eyes! ❤️❤️❤️ I can relate to a lot of what you’re describing - it’s hard to break out of our old patterns and beliefs - even if they’re no longer helpful ❤️ I used to feel that everyone else around me had to agree that a painting was complete before I would let it be done. I wanted others to approve my finish line 😆 I’ve spent more than a few years trying to be perfect and never make mistakes or (GASP!) ugly art! I found that making process art (focusing on the process of art making instead of the final result) has freed me up to PLAY with my art and reconnect with my inner voice. Win-win! I’m offering a free online workshop April 1st explaining the process I use. If you’re interested, you can sign up here: www.jackieschomburg.com/workshops
Here are a few videos I’ve done about this process too: th-cam.com/play/PLtHg87r0ga-8a7haPI5RMNCIKPne4H1ob.html
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@@jackieschomburgart Approval! Oh my goodness yes, when fear of the inner and the outer disapproval becomes so overwhelming that it kills creativity! Thanks for your response it means a lot.
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Love it! Thank you 💜
You are so welcome! ❤️
Wow!!!!
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these pages are just great, love them!
Love your work. I also use a limited color palette- and I think many of the same colors. But I also have very limited space. So I tend to do one or the other: paint or collage. Or draw - with pencil, pen & ink. Currently my daily practice is collage. Which sometimes means days of making collage papers. On those days I often do monotypes. I too remind myself “it’s only paint” or “it’s only paper”. I find that many a painting or drawing that doesn’t quite make it becomes excellent collage material. Thank you for sharing your work!
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Michele! You’re so right about paintings that didn’t quite work making WONDERFUL collage papers! So glad to have you here - thanks for watching! ❤️❤️❤️
very cool.
Thanks, Cynthia! 😎 Your enthusiasm is contagious! 🎉
Your placement and selection of the first layer of collage was lovely. I am wondering why you put that layer of collage on when it all disappears as you add other layers of paint and additional collage. I really enjoy your videos. You explain things so clearly and never worry about mistakes, I love that!
Thanks so much, Jan! I’m so glad to have you watching! ❤️❤️❤️
Dear Jacky, your you Tube videos are so inspiring. There is a lot to discover. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts with us.
Thank you Conny! ❤️❤️❤️
gorgeous!
Thanks Jayne! ❤️
Enjoying your videos very much Jackie. This was so helpful, especially the comments about pushing forward. I often fall in love to early, and am reluctant to cover things up. This video really shows how pushing forward brings reward. So helpful to see the full process.
I’m so glad it was helpful to you! ❤️❤️❤️
I love your videos!!!!
Thanks Judy! ❤️
This was mesmerizing to watch! ❤️
Thank you! It's so fun to watch paintings come together to quickly in a time-lapse! Just *slightly* faster than in real life ;) haha!
Beautiful work!
Thank you, Claudine! ❤️
Stunning absolutely love these pieces ❤
Thank you, Catherine! These two are actually two of my favorites too! ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful artwork thank you❤
Thank you so much for the kind words, Mark! ❤️
These are so pretty Jackie!!! Got some color inspiration too 😊
Thank you!! Always happy to inspire ☺️❤️❤️❤️
THank you for sharing your process. It is very inspirational!
Thanks so much! ❤️
Fabulous results!!!! This really interests me
That’s so nice to hear - thank you!
You are amazing,
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This is beautiful, and I definitely need this information.
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Thank you! This was so interesting and enlightening. I am struggling with abstract, which is the type of art I want to be able to do. My media of choice are watercolor, pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, crayon….just about anything that isn’t oil, acrylic or gouache. My biggest stumbling block is composition. I can see it in others work but not in my own. I get lost. Very frustrating. So it was helpful to see you continuing to play around until you reached a point where you were pleased with the composition. I was shocked that it took weeks! I guess I need to develop patience!
Composition can be tricky. I feel you there. ❤️ It sounds like you already solved your own problem in your comment - it just takes time, patience, and a whole bunch of repetition. Keep showing up - You’ll get there!
Really liking your work. Thanks for sharing your process
Thank you for watching, Sanka! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the videos! ❤️
Just amazing! You’ve really inspired me to try this technique, I love it!
Thanks Daniela - that’s so nice to hear! ❤️
Ohh....I looooooove watching this! It gets me so relaxed...and it's so exiting to watch what you do🥰
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Nice job. And yes I struggle all the time. Just like you I get to a place that looks good and I’m afraid to continue as I might ruin it. I don’t think anyone escapes this. ❤️
Thank you! I think you’re right - it just takes confidence to push through and enough repetition and experience to know that it will all come together in the end…. Or not! 😆
Thanks. Thus helped me a lot.
I prefer the left page btw. It's beautiful.
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Love your vids. Just discovered them! I find gloss medium enhances colours. Matt just gives a dullness. However i have just discovered that gloss makes it difficult to mark make over the top which is a blow sincce this is a tool i often use. So now i plan to stick with matt and mark and then top coat with gloss. Of course these comments might just relate to the brand of mediums i use! Thanks again for your work in making these vids. It is much appreciated. Best R
Interesting observation about the difference between the two finishes. What do you like to use for mark making? I often use caran d’ache crayons and I don’t remember a difference between gloss and matte but I also haven’t used matte lately so it’s entirely possible that I’ve just gotten used to it 😂 Thanks so much for the comment and I’m glad you’ve found your way here! ❤️
Beautiful ! Make me feel like im looking at à Miró painting with the blue...red and yellow with contraste with the sharpe Black marks ! Love your vidéos tanck you for sharring.... it relaxe me alot ! 🙂
A Miró! What a compliment! ❤️ I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the comment - you made my day 🥰
Just found your channel and subscribed, really enjoyed this video, looking forward to watching the others.
Thanks so much, Judy! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the videos! Glad to have you here ❤️
This was a really really nice tutorial, you broke down everything really well, congratulations on making your first TH-cam channel, I have subscribed and I hope you will do really well. I think you should focus a lot in different mediums, but your first tutorial was very good 👍🏽 great job 👏🏽
Thanks so much for the thoughtful response - I appreciate it! ❤️
Just found you, great videos! Your approach to art and your process really resonate. Subscribed. Blessings from Canada.
Oh I’m so glad you found me here and that my work/videos resonate with you! Welcome! ❤️
Am new to the idea of layers so struggle with painting something only to bury it again and not knowing whether I will see anything evolve. Enjoyed your gentle explanations and will look for you again. Thank you 🤔
It take a lot of practice in letting go to paint over existing layers - I'm still practicing! It's definitely challenging to cover over something. I find that if I know a painting isn't finished and I'm not willing to paint over it, it just sits unfinished for years. So I'm finally painting over older unfinished work to resolve it and it's been successful. Plus, if I paint over it and it looks terrible, it's MUCH easier to paint over something I don't like, so it still works out well in the end :) You'll get there when you're ready - no need to rush it. Just keep painting and it will work itself out!
Hi Jackie, such great videos! Thank you. I have so many questions but I guess basically I get stuck as soon as I find something I like. I typically use a rich color pallet because I live in Mexico and color use is more vibrant here. Always when I go,for the “white or neutral part” I get stuck on how to mix it. I guess I should use all the colors in the painting then tint it with white until I’m happy? It happens every time. Here is an example of one I’m working on. I’m thinking of going right to collage now but would love your thoughts. Guess I can’t include an attachment sorry.
Hi Shellie! First of all, you don’t have to have a white/neutral part of your paintings if you don’t want them - honor your style ❤️ If, however, you WANT to add areas of white/neutral colors, I’d be happy to help. If you’re willing to email me a photo of what you’re explaining below I’d be happy to offer any suggestions I have ❤️ You can email me at Jackie dot schomburg at gmail dot com
Yes mat medium imparts a cloudy or dull thud to the overall surface of collage.
“A dull thud” ha! It’s funny - I never really noticed the dull thud when I used to use matte medium. I’ll have to use matte medium again to see if I notice it now that I’m used to gloss ☺️
I used it on a shiny bling paper as a collage piece on canvas. It dulled the sparkle completely, to my dismay.
Oh how sad that it dulled the sparkle 😩 That must have been so disappointing. Do you typically use gloss medium instead of matte now?
Gloss medium sometimes doesn’t provide enuf grip for grungy rendering on top. A regular binder or gesso is better. Depending on the collage substrate, a glue stick sometimes works well becos it is less wet and doesn’t buckle. And that I often finish with a sealant varnish, there is no lifting of collage pieces.
I definitely stop when it starts to look pretty; as you say, because I don't want to mess it up. I find it very difficult to keep going.
My only advice is to make more art. If you focus on quantity over quality, everything becomes less precious and you will have more practice trusting yourself and your instincts. You’re on the right track - just keep going! ❤️
I think the gloss medium sticks better to the surface. I don’t know about the cloudiness.
Totally agree! The gloss is a game-changer! ✨👍
I loved this, loved the finish paintings. I would love to know what mediums you used, I assumed acrylic and/or ink? I particularly appreciated the advice to keep going because something good will happen! Thank you.
Thank you, Jan! Yes - I used acrylic paints and gloss medium as glue for the collage paper ☺️
Love this! And I'm a newby so stupid questions ahead. This was a lot of effort. What do you do with these pages when done? Also, do you use the same methods on canvas?
Hi Andrea! It was many steps but I don’t remember it feeling effortful. it took time, but I was experimenting and playing around as I made each new layer and shape so it felt fun 🤗 I do use the same methods on canvas - some of the marks end up looking differently on canvas due to the different texture but the same actions can be used on both canvas and paper. I have the painting on the TH-cam thumbnail framed on my wall at the moment - both paintings were at my local art league in an abstract-art show early this summer. I’m happy with how these two turned out so I kept them. Other times I’ll use less successful paintings for collage paper or cut them into smaller paintings and add on to them. I’ve also put many pages together and bound them into an art journal.
No worries about stupid questions - The best way to learn is to ask questions to the people who know the answers you are looking for. You’re doing exactly the right thing - welcome ❤️
Thank you for sharing your process. Have you added a medium to your white paint?
Hi Shirley, no medium has been added. Different paint companies offer different types of paint - some thinner/thinner than others. ❤️❤️❤️
do you use any rules of composition as you decide where to paint or arrach collage?
Did you gesso that paper first or is it a special type of paper? Can you use it for oils as well?
Nope. I suppose you could gesso it, but for whatever reason I always skip that part 😆 Unfortunately I can’t speak to oils - i just use acrylics.
What brand of low tack Artist tape did you find works best? And what size in width?
I’ve had consistent luck with 3M’s Delicate Surface tape (Scotch 2080EL-24E ScotchBlue Delicate Surfaces Painters Tape, 0.94" Width x 60 yd, Purple a.co/d/3XioBSR) but I do find the light purple color a bit distracting as it’s very hard to ignore. I’ve been forgoing tape for the past few months and just paint to the edges 🤗
Hi there! Tha k you for your video. At the end you mentioned that sometimes you get to a point where you think the painting is beautiful so you don't want to keep going... what are you trying to achieve? I thought it was to get to a point where you like it. So, how would you know if you are finished? Thank you for your time on this.
Often times there is something that I really like about a painting, but it doesn’t feel resolved overall. Those are the times that feel tricky to me because it’s a risk to continue, knowing that you might have to cover over the part you love to ensure that the entire painting feels resolved/complete. However, if you DON’T take the risk, the painting remains unresolved indefinitely, so in order to ever finish it, the risk has to be taken…. It’s a practice of making brave choices. For me it took a lot of practice to keep going ❤️
I'm just starting out with acrylic painting, well with art in general. I'm a bit lost as to where to start. I've done a few tutorials but is there areas I should be focusing my attention on or??
This is a great question. Are you interested in abstract art? I'f so, I'd play around with a large piece of paper. Tape it so that it is separated into 6 or 8 parts of approx. the same size and paint and draw over it with big, loose strokes. Try to pretend it's not taped off. Once you have several colors and/or types of materials (crayon, paint, graphite, pastels, etc.), pull off the tape and cut along the tape lines so that you now have 6-8 semi-randomly marked paintings to react to. This helps keep me loose and it takes some pressure off of trying to create interesting marks - they just happen. You can see me do this in a few videos, including these:
th-cam.com/video/Eo7K98ykJGg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8LvVn0MEC_v6dEsj
th-cam.com/video/Dx__vnzwHjM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=B106rJiFazASsbRw
th-cam.com/video/hzo3TgLYG7E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3VV27IaM9MJ2WB3s
th-cam.com/video/xRnZEr3K2WE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WyQ0ZfwS0RXcGeaH
Hope that helps!
What is the gray scrapey thingy you're using? Loved the video!
Thanks! It’s called a color shaper ☺️
@@jackieschomburgart Thanks!
You’re welcome!
You’re welcome!
ut oh is Washi tape good or bad? I ordered a lot of it to use in my mixed media and to hold my pages down
I don’t know that any tape is “bad” but washi tape shouldn’t be too sticky, which I think would be easy to peel off paper with out harming it. You really can’t tell with tape until you try it. Use a hair dryer to heat up the glue before gently pulling the tape off and you should be okay either way!
@@jackieschomburgart ok thanks it's in the goodie box
@@jackieschomburgart p.s. do you have a video telling what supplies you use
Could you do this on a stretched canvas?
Sure, I don’t see why not.
Can you use oil pastels?
I use oil pastels, yes. Is there a particular circumstance that you're thinking about with the pastels?
Nothing in particular. Just wondering if it could be done.
Struggling …just to begin process
Do you mean you’re struggling to start a new piece of art? If so, you might try (1) several paintings at once and (2) using the same supplies in the same order on each painting. If you were looking for feedback on something else, please let me know. ❤️
I lack in confidence
It’s a tricky thing, isn’t it? I’m learning that the more art I make, the more I trust myself. And the more I trust myself, the less I listen to other people’s opinions about my art. I feel like the more I pay attention to what I’m doing (and less attention on others), the more confidence I find. What helps you when you’re feeling low on confidence?
@@jackieschomburgart you are very inspirational…..thank you
After watching your video, I dove in, and felt confident
That’s GREAT! Way to go!