Online course | Painting with Mixed Media

What’s this course about?

This course is for anyone who wants to explore mixed media without feeling overwhelmed. I’ll show you the tools I use, how to combine them, how to make art that feels playful and intuitive and how to embrace your work in progress as if it’s the finished artwork.

All the video lessons are pre-recorded, so you can finish it on your own pace. You’ll have access for the lifetime of this course via a private password protected website.

This course consists of 10 video lessons of 1 hour in total and includes a 29 page written guide.

This is course is perfect for you if

  • You’re a beginner and you’re looking for a friendly, guided start in painting with mixed media

  • You’re an artist feeling stuck or overthinking and you’re looking to reconnect with playful experimentation

  • You’re afraid to mess up, let’s mess up together!

  • You’d like to be looser with your mark making and brush strokes

  • You like using expressive and bold colours

Watch the introduction:

This is what you’ll learn

  • What paper to use for your mixed media experiments.

  • An introduction to acrylic paints.

  • What colours should be on your palette.

  • An introduction to mixing paint and different colours.

  • A demonstration of all the materials we’ll use in this course, as well as how to diversify your brush strokes and lines.

  • My own essential brush-kit

  • How to take care of your brushes

  • A demonstration to paint along with on how to mix and match all the different materials we’ve used in this course. Together we’ll finish one spread filled with shapes and textures. I’ll show you how to layer materials, combine colours and create more contrast.

The materials we’ll use in this course

If you’re watching this course to see what’s possible with mixed media, you won’t need any of these materials. If you’re joining to paint along you’ll at least need acrylic paints, coloured pencils and oil pastels. We’re painting on paper, but a sketchbook with thick paper is also works.

Materials you don’t necessarily need but will be used for demonstrations: markers, acrylic ink, ink and paint markers.

I talk you through the differences in quality and what materials to invest in, in one of the lessons.

Yes, sign me up!

This course will open for the first time in september.

Everyone learns in their own way

Which is why I’ve taken the utmost care of creating a written guide to go along this course.

  • It’s 29 pages long and includes 11 chapters, just like the video lessons.

  • You’ll be able to download it as a PDF the moment you complete your purchase. You could even print it if you want to.

  • I go more in depth on certain topics and show different brush strokes, types of brushes and the step-by-step process of how to mix & match your materials.

Hi, it’s me!

The courses are taught by me, Roxy van Bemmel. I have been working as an independent artist for seven years, after graduating from ArtEZ in Fashion Design in 2017.

I have six years of teaching experience at a variety of schools, from vocational (MBO) and higher professional education (HBO) institutions to private courses in illustration and fashion. From 2024 I also teach from my own art studio in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Thanks to the diversity of students I have had the pleasure of meeting, I can quickly get to the heart of what you really need.

I believe in creating a lot and also in making ugly things to progress quickly. If you want to get rid of your perfectionism, you’re at the right address!

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What a great question! The moment you purchase the course (when it’s available, otherwise the button will say ‘waitlist’) you’ll get a password and a link via e-mail. If you don’t see it, please look in your spam.

    That link goes to a private password protected page on my own website. That way you’ll have all the lessons in one nice space. It even saves your progress!

    Every year I’ll send you a new password to ensure the privacy of the course.

  • You’ll have access to this course for the lifetime of this course. Which means you’ll have access for at least a year, but most probably a lot longer.

    I can’t guarantee lifetime access as what even counts as a lifetime? So this is the next best thing.

  • The course is in English and will be subtitled in English and Dutch.

  • Yes! This course is specifically for beginners and a great place to start if you’d like to follow a follow up course.

  • Phone, in theory yes. Everything will just be a bit smaller as it’s made for a bigger screen. Tablet, definitely!

  • Unfortunately you do need to have access to internet to see the lessons. The video lessons are in 4K (read: very big) so they’re not available for download.

  • Right away! This course is pre-recorded so you can follow it on your own pace.