Growing out of the popular online workshops and videos, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu is your handbook for creating whimsical mixed media figures inspired by Blu's super cool "Girly Grunge" style.

In these pages, Blu leads you step-by-step through the process of making a variety of characters, including a petite doll, Marie Antoinette, a gypsy girl, angels, fairies, mermaids, and more. Learn how to compose simple, balanced figures and add shading with colored pencils and paint. Create vivid, exciting backgrounds by layering paint, collaging with fabric, carving beeswax, distressing wood, and building up texture with mediums and pastes. Then design costumes and personalities for your girls and adapt them to fit your own artistic style. On the accompanying DVD-ROM, which you can play on your Mac or PC, there is a mini-workshop full of whimsical mayhem, motivation, and real-time video with Suzi Blu. Learn drawing and shading techniques for faces, tricks for working with beeswax finishes, and how to make a mixed media art journal from start to finish.

Author — Suzi Blu.

Paperback. 128 pages. 8½" × 10" (22 cm × 25 cm).