Join Artist Dina Wakley (and student Amy Jones) as Dina dives into the possibilities of mixed media. In this art instruction workshop, Dina builds four art journal pages with animals using tracing, overpainting and stamping. Dina works quickly and she guides you through each project with advice, humor and encouragement. Her motto is “oops oh well” and she wants her students to approach these pieces with a sense of adventure and play. She warns that she is not a fine artist but these techniques would be at home in mixed media pieces outside of your art journal.

Dina teaches four complete projects. Her first project works with stamps, and she shows you how to use watered down acrylics for a watercolor effect. She creates a quick background and adds a piece of hand painted paper with a scalloped edge from another workshop (not shown on this DVD). She talks about auditioning pieces and keeping things simple.