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I will break down the steps for making a mixed media art project and teach you some simple mixed media techniques. These easy mixed media techniques can be applied to a canvas, art journal page or any other mixed media project #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #easyart #artprocess #artsandcrafts
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hi everyone inat Kesler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you simple mixed media techniques
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so we're going to start with priming
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priming your page your art journal page
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or your canvas is really important so
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all the materials that you're going to
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add are going to really hold on to the
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surface that you're working on and you
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won't get any bleeds or any smears or
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the 3D elements that you're adding will
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stay on and so on so you need to use
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gesso to prime your
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surface next we are going to add some
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background and this is the base layer so
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the base layer is basically the first
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layer that you add to your mixed media
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project it can be an arinal page or a
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canvas or any other project that you're
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making and it can be from anyy material
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I am using old book
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papers and I'm attaching them to my
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canvas with gel medium you can also you
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use Mod Podge these are glues that are
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also um sealing the top layer of the
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paper so you need to put one layer to
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attach them to the surface and then
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another layer on top of them to seal it
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these are really gluey and
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liquid materials that you can apply with
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a brush so the base layer can be paint
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sprays papers
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fabric any type of first base that you
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want to build your creation on so I'm
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covering all the sides of my canvas with
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the old book pages and make sure that it
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is completely dry before you continue
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our next technique is adding texture one
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of the most common and uh required let's
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say elements of mixed media projects is
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texture and you can add texture in a lot
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of ways I'm going to show you two ways
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so I'm using a bandage this is like an
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old bandage you can use cheesecloth I'm
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getting this for my local pharmacy and
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then I'm just fraying it a little bit
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with my fingers and attaching it to the
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canvas again with gel medium gel medium
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or Mod Podge is a really strong glue and
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it goes to all the nooks and crannies
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that you need especially if you're not
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working with a flat surface like now so
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I'm cutting pieces of my
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bandage and or my cheesecloth or any
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other fabric by the way that you
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want and then I'm fraying it with my
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fingers and attaching it to the canvas
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and you see it is completely jumbled up
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and creating layers with
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it and the texture will look really
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pretty and
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interesting so you just keep on adding
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that layer until you're
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happy next I'm going to use some
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modeling paste modeling paste is a thick
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paste that you can add and it
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stays um on the surface it does not
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flatten so you can use it with stencils
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or you can use it with a pallette knife
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like I'm doing here just to add texture
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rides and height uh areas that are uh
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higher than the surface and then of
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course make sure that it is completely
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dry before you continue with your next
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technique and that is adding color
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adding color can be done in millions and
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millions of ways first of all you can
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use any type of color that you want that
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means you can use watercolor acrylic
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paints oil paints crayons
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markers uh colored pencils Etc and of
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course you can choose whatever color
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combination that you want I'm using
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distress stains here distress stains are
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transparent
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inks and they're very liquid they come
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in a bottle with a sponge and I'm using
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a brush to spread them around
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and then I'm also going to add some
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sprays I really like using sprays it
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they go into all the nooks and crannies
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and create a really beautiful color
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effect when you add them so you see now
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when I add color when I add the stains
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onto the texture it really makes the
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texture pop pop out because some areas
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are higher than the others and the paint
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goes inside the the the little nooks and
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crannies and makes it look really pretty
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so I also sprayed the canvas and then
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made sure everything is completely
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dry and now I can go ahead and continue
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with
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adding my text and my focal point
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usually at this point you add your focal
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point before you add all the other
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details and text but I just wanted to do
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that
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first to make sure
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that so that I have my letters in the
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right place
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and what I'm doing is I'm using
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chipboard letters and I'm just
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adding some distress stains to color
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them and also I'm coloring them with PCA
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pens which which are really great to use
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almost on any surface these are type of
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acrylic paint
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markers that I really like using so I'm
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just going to color all my letters I'm
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going to spell the word
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fill because my focal point is going to
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be connected to that word so next I'm
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just going to add my text to the canvas
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and when you make a mixed media project
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you don't necessarily have to add text I
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like to add
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words to my projects but that is a
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personal choice that you don't have
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to
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make so once I have all my letters I can
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go ahead and add my focal point so my
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focal points is a bunch of
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old little bottles and and vials
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that I am going to add little words on
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them
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and like joy and love and things like
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that and words like that so basically
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I'm going to fill my life with in the
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bottles with all the words that are
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going to be on the bottles so I'm just
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using the same old book paper to spell
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the words and attach them
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to the
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bottles I even have a a small perfume
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bottle here an empty
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one you can get those in all the little
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bottles and glass bottles and vials can
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be found in craft
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stores you can actually use plastic ones
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as well doesn't matter as long as
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they're transparent and then you can
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add you can also fill them with little
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beads different colors I didn't do that
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but you can do that as well that will
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add extra interest and texture to your
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piece so I'm using a really strong glue
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E6000 is an industrial strength glue
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because the bottles made are made of
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glass they're kind of
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heavy and when I H this on my wall I
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want to make sure that they don't fall
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so I have to use a really strong
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glue don't use
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um just uh hot glue or any other type of
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glue it needs to be really really strong
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glue so this is how my final piece looks
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I really hope you liked it and that
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you'll give all those mixed media
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techniques a try thank you very much for
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