Love for Mixed Media

Typically before doing a post about a subject I'm captivated by and dying to put out there, I tend to engross myself with everything I can find on it in hopes to have a better understanding on what I'm about to write about. This time though, with every article and definition I come across, I'm finding myself even more inarticulate and hesitant when trying express my thoughts. So with that I'm not going to try define it other than this: Mixed media Art tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art mediums. Any materials can be used, such as pages from magazines, newspaper, photographs, fabric, soil, or packaging to make a collage. A mixed media piece can be as 'simple' as using two mediums, such as acrylic paints with pastel on top.

For example, a gold leaf was often added to church paintings; Leonardo da Vinci mixed pastels with other drawing media; William Blake used watercolor washes to his prints; Edgar Degas combined pastels with charcoal and printing inks.

Now with the rise of photoshop, the world of mixed media art has exploded with a whole new sense of untouchable boundaries.

It first began about a year ago when I came across London based Nikki Farquharson's illustrations for Missbehave magazine incorporating a mix of fashion, minimal hand drawn design and electric color. Soon after that the internet exploded with artists that seemed to focus between shifts of communication, color, pattern and typography.

Over the last 2 months It's gotten harder to ignore it's popularity and finally I've compiled a best of from a galore of artists that are astonishing at what they do. Many of them I simply saved on my computer with no information on the artist and such.... so. yeah. enjoy....

It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
- Pollock