Alyice on March 3rd, 2009

Creative Paint Workshop

“If you try to make paintings that please everyone,
you will be inhibiting your own creativity and
most likely repeating what others have done before.”

I fell in love with Anne Baldwin’s work the day I purchased and viewed her video, Telling Stories With Collage and Paint. Her collages have a wonderful balance to them: somewhat busy, somewhat serene. The colors blend well together and appear seamless—meaning you often cannot tell where one image/scene ends and another begins. And her work just speaks to the soul, as if to say, “I have a story tell and I’d love for you to hear it.”

I’ve often wished she’d come out with more instructional videos as I really enjoyed her teaching style. It’s very laid back, education, and entertaining. She’s just a joy to watch. So imagine my enthusiasm when I discovered she had written a book, and not just any book, but a book on creating mixed media collages! A book entitled, Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed Media Artists.

Immediately I engulfed myself in her book and found myself jotting down note after note (for you see it was a borrowed book) and thinking, “this is amazing, she’s expanded on her video and answered a few of my lingering questions!”

The book is filled with plenty of visual stimulation along with blurbs about why the featured piece works and sprinkled throughout each chapter are mini-projects to help you get your creative juices flowing.

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All-in-all, the book has nine chapters:

Getting Started
How to Compose
Approaches to Abstract Design
Experiments in Texture
Layering Paint and Found Images
Combining Words and Paint
Working with Encaustic Materials
Using Digital Photographs in Mixed Media Paintings
Gallery of Special Projects

Amongst those chapters you’ll learn things like:

Why you should know what “mood you want to convey before you begin selecting your content”,
When it’s the right time to use symmetry and asymmetry in your collages,
Why you should never put a subject in the middle of your collage,
Why every collage needs a focal point,
Why you cannot use wax over acrylic paints,
How to put rice paper through your printer without it getting jammed,
How to use ordinary objects like toothbrushes and plastic wrap to enhance backgrounds,
Why you should only use soft, creamy crayons and pencils that are not marked “watercolor” in your mixed media collages,
Why the darkest areas of your painting should be at the bottom of your painting,
And so much more.

If you’re ready to start creating collages that are more than just “eye-candy”, if you’re ready to start creating collages that tell stories, then you’ll want to get a copy of Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed Media Artists today.

Disclosure: I borrowed a copy to review. This is “my opinion” of the product. I was not paid to give a positive review.

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