Guest Posts

Have a few minutes to spare? Or need a little pick-me-up from your creative slump? Our guest post blogs are the perfect solution. These mixed media artists offer everything from advice on how to recover from art injuries -getting over those gallery rejection letters!- to helpful tutorials like Diana Trout’s watercolor painting techniques for your art journals! You can also find profile blogs about inspirational artists working around the world to share their art and empower others. Get ready for some amazing ideas!

Have a few minutes to spare? Or need a little pick-me-up from your creative slump? Our guest post blogs are the perfect solution. These mixed media artists offer everything from advice on how to recover from art injuries -getting over those gallery rejection letters!- to helpful tutorials like Diana Trout’s watercolor painting techniques for your art journals! You can also find profile blogs about inspirational artists working around the world to share their art and empower others. Get ready for some amazing ideas!

Art Challenge: Think Different, Make Different

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*A guest post by Victoria Rose Martin. The challenges of making art while traveling or at least away from your studio can be daunting. Last month as I was planning to travel I offered up a challenge to incorporate a …

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Creative Kickstart: Starting Over… Again

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*Guest post from Natasha Watson. I wasn’t going to submit a tutorial because I honestly had not been near my art journal or any supplies in the last 6 months. I was creatively dried up, I thought, after coming back …

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An Oops Moment is Just Another Opportunity

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*Guest post by Carolyn Dube. So it turns out when a product comes with a lid on it, you should put said lid back on when finished using it… in a timely manner. What’s a timely manner? Not weeks that …

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Mixed Media Workshop in New York City

*A guest post by Lisa Cyr. If you are in New York City or plan to be there in September, I have an exciting mixed-media workshop that may be of interest to you! Start the weekend off at The Art …

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Creative Kickstart: Get Creative With Beet Juice

*Guest post by Art Journal Kickstarter artist Jessica T. Kovan. As an avid journaler, for years I threw my journals away. But then I became inspired to start tearing them up and using them within my art. My handwriting in …

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Extending a Photo With Personal Touch

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*Guest post by Sherry Pollack. This technique involves “extending” a photo onto the surrounding journal page by painting and/or drawing around it. I learned this process in an Artful Journaling class I take in Columbia, MD. When I expand a …

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Creative Kickstart: Spark Your Creative Fire

*A guest post by Art Journal Kickstarter artist Jessica Sporn. Do you ever sit down to create, but find you’re stuck? When I don’t have a clear project or idea in mind, I need to get my hands working and …

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Save a Life of a Pen

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*A guest post by Carolyn Dube. I did a good thing today. I saved the life of a pen. How? By calling upon my many many experiences with wet paint and ruined pens. Did I wait for the paint to …

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Traveling Artist: Creating Art While Traveling

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*A guest post by Victoria Martin. It’s summer and as I write this I am seated in an airport ready to board a plane. As I look around at the people passing by I think of how most people probably …

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Take Action: Positive Words and Weird Landscapes

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*Guest post by Mandy Russell. To begin an art journal page without a clear plan can be daunting to say the least. I have a hard time with blank journal pages. To take bold, definitive action on the white space …

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