10 Enjoyable Acrylic & Mixed Media Projects For All Levels

Kick off with a simple cool still life using a loose underpinning showing through big shapes, focusing on color harmony and imperfection over detail.

Explore how dominant geometric shapes and off-center massing guide the eye, with interlocking organic forms that avoid tangents and a cool-blue palette anchoring the focal point.

Create a dominant neutral still life with flowers in acrylics on paper, layering watercolor beneath, and using khaki tones with a pink accent for depth and texture.

Master value, design, and composition with an off-center dominant shape and a pink focal flower. Use neutrals and varied shapes to simplify still life and landscape designs.

Create a coffee cups motif using collage paper and acrylic washes, apply glue, seal edges, and glaze to unify a textured mixed-media piece that upcycles scraps.

Discover how an odd three-row layout guides the eye to the central coffee cup, balancing variety, cohesive white outlines, and a collage paper background.

Create a simple sailboat painting using acrylics and collage paper remnants, blocking shapes and adding minimal details with bright primary colors. Explore upcycling, quick technique, and potential market appeal.

This painting thrives on unity from repeating the same subject in a cohesive contemporary rose composition, with a blue-dominant palette, white secondary hues, and yellow-red highlights, scalable to many surfaces.

Create a textured vase with daisies by combining acrylic painting and collage on found papers, layering irregular shapes, background tones, and off-center flowers for harmonious color and texture.

Asymmetrical design anchors the painting with a heavier right side and guiding stems. A collage and a cool palette of blues, greens, whites, and a yellow accent balance the composition.

Master the smearing landscape technique to create a layered acrylic and mixed media scene with sky, water, grass, and trees, using direct paper mixing, mr. bottle smears, and color harmony.

Explore how a painting achieves balance through sky, land, and water spacing, with a dominant cool sky, warm accents, and a horizontal layout that guides the eye with color harmony.

Master a traditional acrylic landscape by toning the paper and blocking shapes. Build color in layers, apply a warm underpainting, and balance a cool palette.

Examine how an off-center horizon, a dominant mass of shapes, and connected shadows create a balanced landscape in acrylic and mixed media, using a cool palette with red pops.

Learn an acrylic palette knife technique to create texture and movement, using leftover paint for a smearing ground plane, diagonal skies, and distant vertical trees that connect sky to land.

Discover how design, value, and palette drive a painting: analyze ground plane, lines, horizontal and diagonal movement, horizon line, and planning before painting for cohesion.

Create a dynamic collage-based landscape with acrylics, repurposing scrap collage paper and Mod Podge to build a layered design, using color harmony, texture, and the stumbling brush technique.

Analyze how the design and composition use value hierarchy, asymmetrical balance, and color harmony to guide the eye across a bottom-third horizon landscape.

Learn to create a sketchy landscape with acrylics and mixed media by blocking in transparent layers, shaping sky, clouds, horizon line, and scribbled details.

Explore a square composition with a low horizon, dominant sky, leading road, and distant hills, while balancing value contrasts and a cool-to-warm color palette.

Select a still life from five images and apply course techniques to create a unique painting with a personal twist, adjusting layout, color, and layers for a landscape finale.

Combine collage and painting to render sunflowers in a green vase, offsetting the flowers for balance while mixing ocher, greens, and grays.

Choose one of five images to inspire a landscape painting, applying class ideas while tweaking colors and composition to simplify the scene. Make it your own, not a direct copy.

Robert demonstrates a mixed media collage workflow, starting from a focal sweet spot and layering collage papers, paint, and shadows to build a city scene with trees, umbrellas, and figures.

Recaps finishing 12 acrylic and mixed media projects and celebrates your progress. Explore more classes, including a beginner acrylic painting course that covers fundamentals and color mixing.