Daisy Yellow workshops help you incorporate a wide variety of painting, drawing, brainstorming, and collage techniques into your art journal practice. You’ll find the process rejuvenating, playful, open-ended, and wildly colorful! The LATEST OFFERING is Tiny Adventure ~ an energizing, rainbow-filled exploration into art journaling in watercolor or gouache.

Whatever you select, you’ll explore a variety of flexible techniques designed to spark creativity!!!
Online & Self-Paced & 24/7 Access

Watercolor/Gouache
Art Journaling Workshops

Mixed Media
Art Journaling Workshops

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Articles about art-making!
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Groovy Grunge Workshop

Create bright, bouncy, colorful art journal pages full of energy! Loosen up your art journaling style and incorporate a rainbow of colors with techniques for combining acrylics, ephemera & all of that paper you collect from everyday life.

We'll generate ideas to bring into your journal, prepare a hardback book for mixed media journaling and dive in to those scrumptious pages. Create bright & bouncy journal pages with a grungy, weathered vibe and decadent painted edges. 

To get started, I'll share tips for selecting a book for your project and show you how to prepare it for all of those layers of paint! 

We'll generate ideas to bring into your journal, prepare a hardback book for mixed media journaling and dive in to those scrumptious pages. Toy with your ideas through a variety of journaling techniques. Get INTO your journal rather than worrying about the perfect page, the composition, or the outcome. 

The techniques are all fresh & new. Create bright and bouncy pages while you refine your collage and acrylic painting techniques with a grungier vibe. We will actively work through the process of incorporating words on pages. 

This is fun, messy, free-range, organic, playful art journaling, taught in a positive environment designed to support artists to create  more openly and intuitively!

A wild variety of techniques for creating visually intriguing pages in your art journal using acrylic paint and paper [both found + painted]. Techniques that form the building blocks for art journaling with a playful, grungy, impromptu vibe. We create a variety of pages, with carefree details falling into beautiful disarray. As you explore & practice the techniques, you get comfy with incorporating imagery, words, patterns, and colors into your mixed media work. 

Materials

We’ll use a hardback book, heavy body acrylics, brushes, liquid adhesive, magazines, a few Neocolor II water-soluble crayons and random collected papers + magazines. The workshop includes tips for selecting a book to alter and video instructions for preparing your book to use as an altered book art journal. We use a similar set of materials in Novel Approach and Groovy Grunge.

Details

Level: Intermediate level workshop.

Details: A self-paced online workshop taught via video tutorials with creative prompts, tips & tricks. 3.5 hours of video content.

Workshop Access: Through 12/31/20.

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Groovy Grunge video peek!!!

Novel Approach Workshop

Blend, collage & play with acrylics in an open-ended, loose, playful, grungy style. Create a variety of art journal pages which incorporate paint blending and layered collage in a visually engaging style. We'll jump in, play with grids, rainbows and incorporate those papers and ephemera you've been collecting for years! 

We start by selecting + prepping a hardback book to use as an art journal and then I'll show you how to create more than 10 unique art journal pages! You'll get a chance to roll up your sleeves, and immerse yourself in your art journal!!! We will work with concepts like grids, paint blending, adding depth and grunge to your pages, and more. 

About NOVEL APPROACH

Working with collage and acrylics in an altered book is an incredibly engaging process; each page of your book has a built-in starting point that you can choose to incorporate or ignore. I like to have multiple books and journals going simultaneously.

When your book is finished you'll adore the glorious edges of saturated acrylic paint. Join this class to explore ideas for allowing your pages to flourish without a predefined finished product.

You'll learn an array of acrylic painting and collage techniques. We'll go on an idea & inspiration treasure hunt, paint abstract backgrounds, discover found poetry, work with grids and freestyle collage, adding color and mystery to your book.

This is fun, messy, free-range, organic, playful art journaling, taught in a positive environment designed to support artists to create  more openly and intuitively!

Create mixed media art journal pages in an altered book with a focus on acrylic paint and paper. As you explore & practice the techniques, you get comfy with incorporating imagery, words, patterns, and colors into your mixed media work. 

Materials

We’ll use a hardback book, heavy body acrylics, brushes, liquid adhesive, magazines, a few Neocolor II water-soluble crayons and random collected papers + magazines. The workshop includes tips for selecting a book to alter and video instructions for preparing your book to use as an altered book art journal. We use a similar set of materials in Novel Approach and Groovy Grunge.

Details

Level: Beginner level workshop.

Details: Self-paced online workshop taught via video tutorials with creative prompts, tips & tricks. 2 hours of video content. 

Workshop Access: Through 12/31/20.

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Some of the pages we create in Novel Approach!

Daisy Yellow Workshops are online & self-paced, PACKED with creative prompts, insights & ideas to kick-start creative play! We play with a variety  of techniques and building blocks to develop your own unique journal pages.

Some of the pages we create in Tiny Adventure!

Tiny Museum Workshop

Go on an adventurous exploration of your watercolor or gouache paints. Learn how to paint detailed doodle patterns, blend adjacent colors, play with grids of circles + squares everything in between!

Play in your journal with pencil and paint, exploring grids, doodles & repeating patterns. We start with a fun bit of cut + paste collage to gather ideas. Then we transform our ideas with watercolor or gouache [your choice] in the form of teeny tiny museums with  grids + squares + circles + patterns galore! The more comfortable you feel with your watercolor or gouache paint, the more ideas you can explore in your journal. As a bonus, I'll show you how to make a tiny altered book filled with your own luscious painted patterns!

Bonus: Make a tiny altered book filled with your own luscious painted patterns! 

Level: Beginner level workshop.

Details: Self-paced online workshop taught via video tutorials with creative prompts, tips & tricks. 3.5 hours of video. 

Art Materials You'll need good quality watercolor paper, a few Neocolor II water-soluble crayons, two good quality watercolor brushes and good quality watercolor or gouache paints. Details about the paints I use. Upon registration, I'll provide a list of art materials and answer your questions about materials. 

Access: Through 12/31/20. 

Super feedback!

✔︎ Student work from Tiny Museum

"I LOVE the art I've made for Tiny Museum. I've bought more watercolor journals because it's such a lovely medium and I just want to keep doing more! I love how Tammy puts her workshops together - everything is very clear and easy to follow and she provides great feedback. The video tutorials are wonderful - they're beautifully produced and an absolute joy to watch." Rebecca

"That lady could motivate a snail to stand up and do the tango! Watercolor and gouache are certainly dancing together in my journal as I work through the many videos in this class. I'm sure everyone has their own approach but I enjoy working while listening to the videos, listening and following along very loosely while Tammy describes what's she's doing. Her enthusiasm is contagious and helps cut through the painful haze I am swimming through every day." Michelle

"A warm-up grid where I focused on exploring the relationship of water & paint, not so much on patterns. For me it was about noticing the tiny interactions between colors, how the paint hits the water. This was incredibly relaxing to do!" Patricia

"Labor Day I had the house to myself {heaven} and had so much fun playing with the inspiration grids. I could keep going forever. Color and pattern are my happy place." Carlene

Daisy Yellow Workshops are online & self-paced, PACKED with creative prompts, insights & ideas to kick-start creative play! We play with a variety  of techniques and building blocks to develop your own unique journal pages.

Want to peek into my journals? Sure thing!

I do my mixed media art journal work in hardback books. Each book that I select to alter has something that pulls me in... that's my starting point. It might be the vibe or mood or shape of the book, the feel of the paper, the images, the fonts or all of the above. As I work, gradually the book is transformed into something altogether different. I try to see the book as a whole rather than a set of discrete items. Each altered book is a project with components | compartments | subsets | layers | ideas | colors | images | words | thoughts | ideas | textures | concepts | experiments | tests | etc.

You can also find the flip-thru video at YT.  Read more about this journal!

Feedback from Previous Workshops!

A little about Tammy!

Howdy! I’m Tammy Garcia and I live in Texas with my family and a kooky Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy named Indigo. If we’d met 10 years ago, you would have found me in a corporate cubicle doing quantitative analyses, business process redesign, supplier management, and contract negotiations. My undergraduate degree is in accounting and I have an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. When my kids were little, I started doing art - mostly drawing and mixed media collage - as a hobby to pass the time spent waiting at places like the aquatic center, the school carpool line, on airplanes, etc. I loved the intellectual challenge of my corporate job, but it became more and more difficult to juggle being a mom and working full-time in an office far from home. So I switched to part-time and then finally left my corporate job. Meanwhile, driven by curiosity and a desire to figure out how things work, I taught myself a bunch of different art forms. My focus has consistently been on the process of creating art rather than creating pretty things.

Gradually I realized that art is something crucial to my well-being. And if an analytical like me can let go of rules and structure and create free-form art, you can too! Daisy Yellow was launched in 2008, about a year after I started art journaling. And just about every single day, for a decade, I’ve been doing creative stuff like drawing in ink, painting in a variety of mediums, doing collage, photographs, writing zines, blogging, developing workshops, and kind of sort of writing a novel [still a work-in-process].

To help artists instill, reboot, and refresh their daily art habit, I facilitate an annual 61-day global Index-Card-a-Day Challenge [the 8th annual challenge just wrapped up].

My favorite art forms? Mixed media art journaling, collage, abstract gouache painting, sewing paper, and drawing illustrations in ink. Since 2012, I’ve developed a wide variety of online, self-paced art journaling & creativity workshops, including 3 teaching gigs at 21 Secrets. My artwork has been published in the book A World of Artist Journal Pages, with articles & artwork published in Featuring Magazine and Create Mixed Media. 

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Workshops are shared with you via video tutorials, examples, and written materials on a private workshop website. All of the material is self-paced with 24/7 access so that you can work whenever it is convenient for you. 

The work that you create is your own work. That said, if you share your work on instagram don’t forget to use the tag #daisyyellowart as I follow that tag. It would be extremely wonderful and kind of you to attribute the idea source to a Daisy Yellow workshop. That way other folks can find my workshops and I can make more of them!

Workshop cancellations. For brand new workshops, if a minimum number of students do not enroll, the workshop will be cancelled and registration payments will be refunded in full. For Tiny Adventure, this decision will be made on January 20, 2019.

Facebook Groups Your workshop may include access to a dedicated FB group [see below ⬇️]. Tammy is active in each group and can answer questions @ techniques, materials, and tools used in each workshop. In the group, you’ll find a community of creatives playing with the techniques and ideas. It’s a great space to find additional content, resources, links, examples, show your work, and see how others interpret the ideas. We can inspire each other along the way.

What Facebook Groups are open now? Currently I’m offering a dedicated group for Tiny Adventure.

Videos & Website. Posted via Vimeo and not downloadable. To access the content, you'll need basic computer skills, a high speed internet connection, the ability to login to a website using a userid/password and the ability to navigate a website.

Workshop Refunds. Workshops are not refundable. However, I am happy to refund your payment in this circumstance —> you request via email within 48 hours of purchase AND you have not logged into the workshop website.

Workshop fees are for one participant and cannot be shared or transferred. My supportive FB groups are open to women only, 18+, using individual [non-shared] accounts; account must be in the name of an individual not a company. 

Technical Support. The workshop website has been used for many years and works extremely well. I'm happy to help you with password issues but please know that I do not provide technical support. Safeguard your password - I can reset your password if needed, but if this happens repeatedly there will be a small fee.

Expiration dates for workshops

About expiration dates. Each year, I re-evaluate the content of each workshop, the video quality, and the workshop as a whole... and sometimes I extend the end point. Several of my workshops have been extended for multiple years. That said, I do not offer forever access because I simply cannot guarantee that. Technology changes, website hosting services change terms, hard drives & back-up hard drives crash, and video technology improves. 

Further, my ability to support the workshops can change and I want to provide the best possible experience for each of you.

12/31/21: Tiny Adventure
12/31/20: Tiny Museum, Novel Approach, Groovy Grunge
12/31/18: The Circle
12/31/17: Painted Paper Paradise & Watercolor Playground

The fine print that you should definitely read

Participants may not teach or redistribute the content of this workshop in any format. Content refers to everything on the workshop website, including but not limited to, photographs, descriptions, excerpts, videos, and artistic techniques. You may not reproduce the process steps or content or share screenshots except for your own private use.

Workshop content Copyright ©2011-2018 Tammy Garcia. Registration does not convey copyrights. Please know that I am an independent artist and put an incredible amount of time, energy & love into developing a unique series of workshops and as such I pursue copyright violators.