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Create Remarkable Art out of What Inspires You! Get ready to create extraordinary mixed-media art! This artful adventure is accessible to everyone, no matter your skill level. Whenever you take a stroll through your neighborhood, travel or are just out in nature, you're on an artful adventure. By learning how to actively collect and record what you observe and how you feel as you explore, you can transform these experiences into inspiration for making your artwork truly unique. Learn how to make ironwork in Athens into a reusable stencil, how to make the edges of a natural geyser into colorful layers of textured gesso and how to imprint Alice's white rabbit on a colorful art journal spread. Each art tutorial inside is designed to teach you to seek your own inspiration and incorporate fresh ideas in your work.
About the Author
Nathalie Kalbach is a self-taught mixed media artist. She was born in Germany and lived most of her adult life in Hamburg before moving to the United States in September 2013.
Her early love of paint was squelched by an art teacher who told her, she had no talent. She worked as a paralegal for seventeen years and might have remained in the wrong profession had she not discovered mixed media painting in 2004.
Nathalie regained confidence in her creativity and spent the last decade exploring the possibilities of creating dimension and texture by layering different materials and paint media. She worked in art journals and on canvases, incorporating collage and found objects. Her projects have been published in several art, craft and hobby magazines as well as mixed media books. Nathalie has taught at many retail events and art retreats, as well as at trade shows, and by 2011 she was able to give up working as a paralegal to become a full-time artist.
Since 2006 Nathalie taught workshops in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Australia, Israel, Malaysia and online. Since Spring 2015 she is teaching Mixed Media Workshops at Pratt Institute for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. In March 2016 she released four Acrylic Paint workshop DVD's with ArtistNetwork TV (Colorful Foundations, Mediums Demystified, Raw Canvas Staining, and Creating Texture Canvases) In Nathalie's workshops she shares what she knows about tools, supplies and techniques, with the goal of helping each student unlock his/her personal creativity.
Nathalie's artwork is licensed through StencilGirl Products (stencils) , Stampendous (rubber stamp, foam stamp and stencil sets) and ArtFoamies (foam stamps) . Her work has been featured on the packaging for Liquitex Acrylic Painting Sets sold at Michaels art and craft stores. From September 2014 until October 2105 she was a sponsored artist/brand ambassador for Liquitex.
