Category: Creative process

Art Journal Serendipity

As a gift to everyone who supported my art this year…

As a gift to everyone who supported my art this year…

This is more than just an art journal flip through: this one comes with a full back-story!

I documented the whole process of making this book, from selecting the paper for the pages to the layering of the pages, then I bundled this all together in an illustrated eBook with over 50 minutes of footage in little bite sized videos! For YOU!

It’s not the paper, the paint or the pens; it isn’t only the inks or the collage. What makes a project like this so much fun is trusting the magic of serendipity

For your free copy of my eBook Art Journal Serendipity sign up for my newsletter below by the launch date 27 December 2023

Hi – I’m Mixy!

This is Mixy 🙂

I’m a mixed media & textile artist from London, UK.

I love to share what I’m making, and I hope it brings some inspiration to your creative time.

You can see what I’m making on this blog, and in these places too

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Flip through: Book of Days Part TEN

The latest look through the pages of the enormous sketchbook!

Pages 146-161 are from May to August 2023.

Gradually these flip through vids are catching up to where I am now in time!

It’s over 3 years since I began this weekly project, and it’s come to be so much part of my creative practice I can’t imagine not doing it…

The characters from these pages are going to show up in a few new projects early in 2024. I hope you’ll join us!

Hi – I’m Mixy!

This is Mixy 🙂

I’m a mixed media & textile artist from London, UK.

I love to share what I’m making, and I hope it brings some inspiration to your creative time.

You can see what I’m making on this blog, and in these places too

Join Me!

Get monthly-ish Studio Musings Newsletter.

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Flip through: Book of Days Part NINE

For over 3 years I’ve been adding a double page spread to this ginormous sketchbook every week.

Pages 136-146 came together through February to May 2023.

It’s funny, I look back at these pages and they feel as familiar as yesterday, and at the same time, like a life time ago.

What is it they say – as you get older the days drag but the years fly. I’m not sure it’s that consistent. But I do know time is wobbly and makes no sense to me.

I’m busy-ing away on a new project based around the characters who show up in these pages. Be sure to follow along to be first to see what I’m making!

Hi – I’m Mixy!

This is Mixy 🙂

I’m a mixed media & textile artist from London, UK.

I love to share what I’m making, and I hope it brings some inspiration to your creative time.

You can see what I’m making on this blog, and in these places too

Join Me!

Get monthly-ish Studio Musings Newsletter.

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Painted Papers

In 2022 I began selling artisan painted papers for collage and mixed media art.

This week I’m launching 4 NEW collections 🙂

In 2022 I began selling artisan painted papers for collage and mixed media art.

This week I’m launching 4 NEW collections 🙂

The papers include vintage book pages, sheet music and old maps. Watercolor and drawing paper, card, magazines, packaging and more.

Colored with watercolor, gouache, acrylic, ink, pens, oil pastel, crayon.

Multi-layered, irregular shapes, cut outs & torn edges, textured by crumpling crunchy paint layers and piercing.

Ink dyed, stained and splashed; doodled, drawn and scribbled upon.

Some pieces have little bits of stitching and fabric.

The papers are individually curated and bundled together into unique collections based around color families.

(many pieces are double sided, you might find some splashes of wild card colors on the reverse side.)

What an absolute delight it was for me when I opened your package!
Stunning does not do these papers justice.

Diane S

NEW Collections:

Autumn Mist
  • Rosy rusty terracotta tones.
  • Bronze-gold and copper highlights.
  • Vivid orange, sharp yellow.
  • Rich chocolate browns and earthy greens.
Autumn Mist Painted Papers by Mixy
Muted Neutrals
  • Quietly natural, muted, neutral tones.
  • Chromatic greys with
    contrasting textures and patterns.
  • Mostly mid-tones with light and dark accents.
Muted Neutrals Painted Papers by Mixy
Beside the Seaside
  • Beachy blues, turquoise & sea foam.
  • Golden yellows with sun-bleached neutrals.
  • Soft sandy earth.
  • Rock pool greys and blues.
Beside The Seaside Painted Papers by Mixy
Silvery Dawn
  • Delicate chalky whites, cloudy dove-grey and cream.
  • Hints of pinks and pastels with a splash of iridescent shimmer.
  • Crisp cool greys and gentle cerulean sky blue.

To complement the new color families check out the other collections:

20 weeks of doodles

For over 3 years I’ve been adding a double page spread to this ginormous sketchbook every week.

So my routine is this: When Monday comes around, and it’s New Page Day for me.

I love it!

Amid all the uncertainty and chaos, this is a constant.

Every so often I film a flip through, and some while after this I remember to do the editing/posting/sharing part …. there’s often a few-month-long time lag between the drawing and the sharing 😉

This is a look back at the pages from June-October 2022.

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A Holiday Sketchbook Flip Through

There have been many trips I’ve taken where I didn’t even open my sketchbook. This holiday I made a deal with myself to find time, and I’m so glad I did!

If you caught my last newsletter you’ll have read about my holiday sketchbook, and the thoughts behind these images.

(And if not you can sign up below and I’ll send it right to you!)

Over the years I’ve been honing the optimum ‘studio away from home’.

It’s a perpetual work in progress, but every time I take a trip away I feel more able to capture my ideas on paper. This is what resulted from a visit to one of my favourite parts of the world last month, Cyprus.

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New Sketchbook Flip Through

Sharing a sneaky peak into the first 100 pages of the GINORMOUS sketchbook!

Every week since the summer of 2020 I’ve been adding a new double page spread to my ‘Book of Days’, this 600 page sketchbook.

 Periodically I update the progress with flip through videos.  Picking up at page 94 where I left the last flip through, here’s a look at the next few pages.

To see the full series there’s a playlist here. 

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Thank you to everyone who supports my art, it means more than you know!
I’m taking a break through May so my online stores are closed until 1st June

The tides of creativity return

Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five

I often talk about the tidal quality of creativity.

There are times when the ideas and energy to dive into their exploration is abundant.

Other times we feel beached and deserted with all that wants to be made, written and invented all the way over there on the horizon.

Following this analogy, I’m welcoming the inspiration back after a long spell of nothing but metaphorical driftwood and dry seashells to play with.

Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five:

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Studio Musings Relaunch!

Brand new flip thru + 2 exciting secret projects to be revealed this weekend! Are you signed up?

It seems like forever since I last dropped by with a studio musings newsletter, so this weekend I’m relaunching with some exciting news!!

To celebrate the re-launch of my studio musings

You’ll be first to see the next installment in the Book of Days flip thru series 🙂

Plus read about TWO secret projects I’m dizzy with excitement to launch later this summer!

Yikes!

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some of what fell down the back of the sofa in my mind

In July 2020 I began this enormous sketchbook, with a new double page spread every week. I posted a few flip throughs in the first year, and although the project is still merrily trotting along at a spread a week, I fell out of the habit of posting updates.

Today I set myself the task to root about behind the metaphorical sofa in my mind and show you some of what’s been going on in my world of art making. Beginning with a flip through of the enormous sketchbook.

This brings us to page 73, although in real time I’ve already clocked up >100 pages, so I’ve more to show you yet. *Watch this space!*

On top of this, it’s been a reeeallly long time since I posted a studio musings newsletter, apologies for radio silence, this is on the list to be revived in the next few days!

You’ll get an email to confirm you signed up and are human. Sorry, only humans (and their cats) can join. Check your spam folder cos sometimes the good stuff gets swept in there by mistake. Also check with your cat.

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