Mastering Mixed Media Expo 2026

Schedule

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DAY 1

Class: Soul Play (click here)
Artist: Tamara Laporte 

In Soul Play, we’ll create a beautiful mixed media portrait filled with expressive colour, soulful features and playful doodled details.

This lesson explores the theme of PLAY through intuitive mark-making, childlike doodles, splatters, symbols and decorative elements. Alongside the portrait, you’ll be invited to add stars, hearts, houses, flowers, patterns, butterflies, swirls, dots or any other small details that feel meaningful to you.

The playful doodles are not just decoration; they are a way of loosening up, stepping away from rigid rules and allowing more intuitive parts of yourself to come forward. Through these marks, we’ll explore how play can become a gentle doorway into self-expression, imagination and the quieter language of the soul.

Using mixed media supplies, we’ll build a portrait that feels both tender and magical, then bring it to life with personal symbols, whimsical details and expressive layers. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to combine soulful portraiture with freedom, playfulness and intuitive creative expression.

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Class: King Night (click here)
Artist: Eulalia Mejia

In this lesson, we’ll bring to life a cute owl nestled in the heart of night. We’ll be playing with collage, but instead of paper, we’ll use cardboard to add depth and texture to our creations. We’ll add details using acrylic paints, colored pencils and markers. Finally, we’ll mount our piece on canvas board to get a 3D effect.

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Class: Abstract Windows of Possibility (click here)
Artist: Laura Horn

Working small is one of my favourite ways to quiet overthinking and open the door to new ideas.

In this lesson, we’ll create a series of small abstract paintings, combining transparent watercolour with mixed media mark making in pastel, pen, and pencil.

You’ll learn how to build stronger focal areas and pleasing compositions while letting marks respond to each other intuitively and allowing unexpected possibilities to emerge.

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Class: An Introduction to Mixed Media Art Supplies (click here)
Artist: Tamara Laporte 

In this gentle introduction, we’ll explore some of the most commonly used mixed media supplies and how they can work together beautifully on the page. We’ll look at paints, pencils, collage papers, markers, mediums and a few other lovely creative bits, with simple explanations of what they do and how to use them. Perfect for beginners, or anyone wanting to feel more confident and playful with their art materials.

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DAY 2

Class:  Create an Impressionistic Garden (click here)
Artist: Michelle Nyberg

Create a Joyful, Impressionistic Garden with Acrylic and mixed media

If you would like to paint a joyful, impressionistic garden, then I’ve created a class for you!

There is a freedom in not having to adhere to an exact representation of the world around us that I find very appealing. The thing that I love about painting in an impressionistic way, is that there can be play and experimentation involved along the way, and endless room for expression. In this class I will share my favourite tips, materials and techniques, as I guide you through the process of creating these pieces. The steps and techniques will be simple and clear but there will be loads of room within the framework to create an artwork that is unique to you

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Class: Wing It (click here)
Artist: Toni Burt

Create an intuitive mixed media journal spread using graphite face sketching, expressive collage, and layered mark-making. In this lesson, we’ll begin with a loose, soulful portrait sketch, then build around it with torn papers, patterned collage pieces, found words, botanical shapes, and playful painted details. You’ll be encouraged to follow your instincts, allowing the page to unfold organically as you combine drawing, texture, colour, and personal symbolism. This is a gentle, exploratory lesson that celebrates imperfection, imagination, and the quiet magic of letting the creative process lead the way.

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Class: Playful Supplies (click here)
Artist: Laly Mille

When I was just a beginner intimidated by academic techniques, the playfulness of mixed media opened a whole new world of art for me. Suddenly it was OK to just play and experiment with my tools and supplies, mix it all up, embrace happy accidents and create something of my own. Years later, this playfulness is still what draws me in, and motivates me to create. I’ve also discovered that an art journal is the best playground you can dream of, because there’s no pressure when you make art just for you.

So, in this fun lesson, I invite you to mindfully gather all your favorite, most playful supplies: the ones that make you smile, the colors that make your heart sing, your favorite materials, tools and even words and imagery that speak to your soul. Then, without any preconceived ideas, let’s unleash all this yummy goodness and see what happens!

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DAY 3

Class: Sanctuary Play: A Gentle Mixed Media Botanical (click here)
Artist: Denise Daffara

Sanctuary Play: A Gentle Mixed Media Botanical is a calm, nourishing mixed media session inviting artists into playful exploration through colour, line, and intuitive botanical forms. In this class, Denise guides participants to slow down, notice, and engage with simple gathered elements as a way of returning to presence and creative ease.

Beginning with a gentle still-life arrangement inspired by natural botanicals, participants are led through a relaxed process of layering colour, mark-making, and loose botanical shapes. The focus is not on perfection or realism, but on play as sanctuary – allowing curiosity, softness, and intuition to guide the creative process.

This session embraces playfulness through experimentation, lightness of touch, and permission to respond emotionally rather than technically. Artists will be supported step by step as they create a finished mixed media botanical artwork that reflects their own pace, sensitivity, and inner landscape.

This class is suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike, and is especially welcoming for those who long for a slower, more meaningful way to play with materials and reconnect with their creative selves.

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Class: Portrait PLAY (click here)
Artist: Christa Forrest

In this joyful mixed media class, we’ll explore portrait-making through a spirit of play, curiosity and experimentation. Rather than aiming for perfection, we’ll begin by loosely sketching a face and allowing the portrait to gradually come to life through layers of colour, texture, marks and expression.

Using acrylic paint, coloured pencils and other mixed media supplies, we’ll build an expressive portrait step by step, letting intuition and play guide the process. This class is an invitation to loosen up, enjoy your materials, and discover the personality that emerges on the page.

Perfect for anyone who wants to bring more freedom, expression and creative play into their portrait work.

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Class: Play, Then Refine: Creating an Intuitive Art Journal (click here
Artist: Brooke Henry

We’ll begin with a large substrate and give ourselves permission to play — adding paint, marks, and materials as intuition leads the way. The first part of this lesson is all about free-form exploration, followed by gently refining and shaping what we’ve made into a simple journal structure that brings it all together.

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DAY 4

Class: Playful Spirit Animal (click here)
Artist: Andrea Gomoll

In this Art Session, we will invite your inner child to a fun play date. We will paint a whimsical fantasy spirit animal using watercolors and colored pencils. We build soft watercolor layers for depth and atmosphere, then refine details and texture with pencils. I show you how to add highlights and sparkle effects that will make your artwork glow and that add a special magical touch.

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Class: Permission to Play: A Grid Journal Exercise (click here)
Artist: Jackie Schomburg

In this session, we’ll create a playful grid journal page using watercolor, matte medium, and collage. Working in small squares lowers the pressure of the blank page and makes it easier to experiment, explore, and follow your curiosity. Instead of trying to make one “perfect” piece, you’ll have multiple small spaces to play with color, texture, and layering. This simple structure helps quiet perfectionism, reduce resistance, and bring the focus back to what art making is meant to be: joyful exploration.

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Class:  The Playful Bird Box: Pattern, Paint & Collage (click here)
Artist: Carrie Smith

In this art session, you’ll create a whimsical Playful Bird Box using patterned paper and your own hand-painted collage elements. I’ll guide you through painting vibrant motifs and assembling them into a layered, story-filled scene. This project is all about play, experimenting with color, pattern, collage, and imagination to bring your tiny world to life.

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Mastering Mixed Media Schedule

(Pls note; some small changes may still be made to this schedule as we move through the event)