Mixed Media Art By Trina

My new video is up! We are experimenting with kitchen lithography using household aluminum foil, Diet Coke, and grease crayons.

It is a surprisingly simple way to get gritty, hand-pulled print textures at your kitchen table without needing a press, heavy limestone, or toxic acids. In the video, I walk through the entire process step-by-step—including a few mistakes I made (like getting oily fingerprints all over the plate) and how to fix them.

I also show a really cool tissue paper cleanup technique I learned from Ruth Printed Home to make transparent collage papers so none of your leftover ink goes to waste.

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Mixed Media Art By Trina

Photos from my walk today. 😍

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2 days ago | [YT] | 69

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I am not good about using a sketchbook. I do like using these little 2”x6” scraps of watercolor paper to work out new ideas.
I used my embossing tool to make marks in the paper and then went over it with charcoal pencil, soft pastels and water.
Love the scratchy marks and the way the pastel went over them. 😍

What are you working on this weekend?

4 days ago | [YT] | 77

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No press? No ink? No problem.

I just put together a step-by-step tutorial showing how to create beautiful, textured drypoint prints right at your kitchen table using recycled Tetra Pak cartons and a black Stabilo Woody pencil.

1 week ago | [YT] | 7

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New experiment loading. 👀

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Ever wonder what happens if you use a Tetra Pak print as a base for mixed media? Usually, printmaking paper just can't handle watercolor. But in today's video, we are breaking the rules to see what happens when we try it on thick watercolor paper instead.

This piece turned out to be an absolute struggle in the studio, and I am showing you the exact moments where I got stuck, hit a messy middle crisis, and had to figure out how to pull it all together intuitively.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

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What is the one art supply in your studio that you bought because of the internet, used exactly once, and now just sits there mocking you? I will leave mine in the comments.

Drop the supply below and let's all feel a little better about our hidden studio supplies.😍

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 16

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My kitchen strainer is officially no longer allowed in the kitchen.

In today’s new video, I’m completely breaking the rules of traditional watercolor. I’m smashing watercolor pencils through a metal strainer straight into wet paint, creating layers with a handmade cola pen, and building up a chaotic landscape inspired by our dramatic Kansas skies. It gets incredibly messy, but it builds an organic texture you just cannot fake with a standard brush.

Grab your supplies, get out your weirdest tools, and let's play.😍

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