Mastering Mixed Media
Creative Session with Melanie Rivers
Deer Heart
In Deer Heart, we explore gentleness as a form of strength. Using mixed media techniques with collage, texture, and acrylic paint, we’ll create a portrait inspired by the deer — a symbol of sensitivity, awareness, and quiet presence. This lesson invites a tender approach to mark-making and encourages listening to what feels supportive in the moment.
Creative Session with Melanie Rivers
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While the event is free to watch for a limited time, you can keep every session forever with the VIP Package! Valued at $760, this exclusive offer grants you lifetime, downloadable access to all lessons, so you can learn at your own pace, revisit your favourite techniques, and never miss a moment of inspiration.
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Melanie Rivers’s free gift:
A gentle, short art lesson, “Butterfly Love”. Please sign up with your email here: Melanie Rivers’s free gift
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Medicine Circle
Medicine Circle is a gentle, ongoing art membership where you’re invited to slow down and create at your own pace. Inside the circle, we explore mixed-media and portrait art as a nourishing practice — one that values presence, curiosity, and connection over perfection or finished results.
Monthly lessons offer simple, supportive ways to engage with art inspired by nature, emotion, and everyday life. This is a self-paced space with no pressure to keep up, designed to help you reconnect with creativity as a form of medicine.
You’re welcome to join for a month to explore, and stay for as long as it feels supportive.
About Melanie Rivers
Melanie Rivers (Tiyaltelwet) is an Indigenous mixed media artist from the Squamish First Nation. Her art and teaching are deeply informed by her ancestry and traditional teachings, with a focus on art as medicine — a gentle place to rest, reflect, and reconnect.
Grounded in nature and the strength of women, Melanie’s work invites presence, curiosity, and emotional expression. She is a trained Expressive Arts Practitioner and an experienced educator of 27 years.
Melanie hosts a creative membership called Medicine Circle, where women are welcomed into a slow, supportive monthly art practice. Inside the circle, art is approached as medicine — spacious, nourishing, and rooted in connection to self and the natural world.
Find out more about this teacher by visiting their site:
https://www.melanierivers.ca/
Unlock Lifetime Creative Inspiration!
Join Mastering Mixed Media, where 37 incredible artists share their expertise in 40 inspiring art sessions – all designed to help you explore, experiment, and elevate your creative practice.
While the event is free to watch for a limited time, you can keep every session forever with the VIP Package! Valued at $760, this exclusive offer grants you lifetime, downloadable access to all lessons- so you can learn at your own pace, revisit your favourite techniques, and never miss a moment of inspiration.
Don’t miss out – secure your VIP access today and take your mixed media journey to the next level!
Buy now for only £99 £63!
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