Mixy's Art Blog

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.

Muted Neutrals

Quietly natural, muted, neutral tones.
Chromatic greys with
contrasting textures and patterns.
Mostly mid-tones with light and dark accents.

Beside the Seaside

Beachy blues, turquoise & sea foam.
Golden yellows with sun-bleached neutrals.
Soft sandy earth.
Rock pool greys and blues.

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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38 Tiny Paintings

Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.

Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.

Inspired by ICAD {Index Card A Day} instagram challenge organised by the lovely Daisy Yellow, these are on 3 x 5 inch index cards.

While being weeny small in size, they are all bursting full of texture, juicy colours, and collaged pieces of book pages and found papers.

Mounted and ready to frame

(to fit a 6 x 4 inch / 10 x 15 cm frame)

£23.00 GBP + shipping

See the full collection HERE and tell all your friends!

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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ETSY SOLSTICE SALE! 30% OFF everything all week!

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

New Art Postcards & Etsy Spring Sale

Everything in my Etsy store is 20% off, including my brand new Art Postcard Series.

Digital collages of drawings and sketches from my art journals to create 12 brand new curiously quirky designs.

Visit my Etsy store for these + many more designs, sticker sheets, zines and original art. Everything is 20% off in the Spring Sale 🙂

Art Postcards are A6 size – approx 10 x x 15 cm / 4 x 6 inches, printed on premium quality 330gsm matte finish card.

The reverse is blank with just the artist’s contact details, perfect to be sent as a postcard or framed to hang on your wall.

Mixy’s New Shop!

Lovingly curated collections of colourful, multi-layered, painted papers. Perfect for art journals, collage, mixed media art.

The first FOUR collections of Painted Papers are now available in my new online shop 🙂

Mermaids & Peacocks

Color family:

Teal, turquoise, aquamarine.
Blues and greens,
Splashes of lime, yellow and gold.

Magenta & Berries

Color family:

Pinky-purples, pomegranate, plum.
Ripe Raspberry to rich ruby red.
Magenta, Maroon, mauve & fuchsia.

Spring Dreamscape

Color family:

Bright sky blue and grass green,
Golden buttery yellows, floral peachy pinks and violets.

Emerald Forest

Color family:

Woodlands, meadows & moss,
Cool misty pine, verdant viridian,
Avocado, olive and luscious lime.

Collections include a mix of painted, printed & dyed papers ranging from vintage book pages and sheet music, art experiments, printed papers, maps, wrapping paper, wallpaper, magazine pages, envelopes and cards.

Coloured with watercolour & acrylic, inks, dyes, pens, pencils & pastel.

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

Multi-layered, irregular shapes, cut outs & torn edges, textured by crumpling crunchy paint layers and piercing. Some pieces have little bits of stitching and fabric.

Each piece already has a rich history in its layers and is ready move on to its next life in your art journals, mixed media art and collages.

Introductory Prices all month!

Bundles of ~30 pieces are just £5.00 all through August.

5 Large Pieces
approx A6 / 3″x 4″ / 8cm x 10cm
10 Small Pieces
approx A7 / 2″ x 3″ / 5cm x 7cm
15 Mini Pieces
ranging 1-3″ / 2-8cm

My next collection launches in the autumn – sign up for my newsletter to get first dibs and special discounts as a thank you for supporting my art ❤

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!