Introduction

Well-Stocked Pantry
            Tools and Materials
            Substitution Chart
            Creative Kitchen Basics

Chapter One
Artistic Appetizers

• Paper Dolls: Paper dolls could be a wonderful place to begin your mixed-media experience. These sassy, simple creations require little to no drawing, meaning you can jump right into the fun.
  
  
• Doodles: You don’t have to dedicate any “real” time to this exercise—doodle while watching TV or sitting in the orthodontist’s waiting room.

Two Cooks in the Kitchen: The Creative Process

• Crazy Papers: Making your own paper provides a wonderful opportunity to discover your own palette as well as your design style.
  
  
• Scrumptious Squares: Experiment with imagery, techniques, and materials on a small scale in a nonintimidating way.
  
  
• Background Wonderland: Grab your basics—your paints, your texturizers, your imagination—and get cooking!
  
  
• Divide-and-Conquer Self-Portrait: No math is required in this foursquare self-portrait using a high-contrast black-and-white image as a reference

Chapter Two
Main Courses

• Reliquary Girls: These dolls each tell a story from everyday life, an example of allowing the truth to spill from your artwork.
  
  
• Quilted Clutch: The fabrics of this clutch are the springboard for its creative design.
  
  
• Mixed-Media Doll: Rummage through your junk drawer, jewelry box, sewing supplies, and lint catch to create your own doll.
  
  
• Art Quilt: Express a story through your own art quilt.

Two Cooks in the Kitchen: What is “Mixed Media”?

• Fabric Journal: This book opens completely flat, so it’s easy to write, draw, or paint all the way down to the spine.
  
  
• Dimensional Collage: When are you done collaging? When it feels done.
  
  
• Peek-a-Boo Collage Book: If you let it, this book will set you free, free to use color on top of color, pattern on top of pattern.
  
  
• Keepsake Box: This project mixes store-bought items with junk and found objects that lend personality and a sense of history.

Chapter Three
Sweet Treats and Special Occasions

• Artsy Board Game: Use your imagination, roll the dice and move your mice, pass go, and sink that battleship.

Two Cooks in the Kitchen: About Each Other

• Mini Collage Feast: These collage squares are great building blocks for trinkets, larger collages, and assemblages.
  
  
• Cottage Cards: These adorable little houses are three-dimensional greeting cards, suitable for any number of occasions, depending on the theme of the text inside the book roof.

Chapter Four
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Mixed-Media Apron Gallery

About the Authors
Resource Guide
Templates
Index