Paint | Paper | Botanicals | Fiber

Make Room For Art In Your Life

Mixed media begins when one material is not quite enough. Paper meets paint, botanicals meet fiber, and familiar fragments become something entirely their own.

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Find Beauty in Layers

The art of collecting materials

There Is No Wrong Way To Make Art

Claudia's work often begins with whatever insists on being noticed: a garden clipping, a painted tissue, a piece of old paper, an image, or a color left behind on the studio table.

Painting, collage, fiber, botanicals, and found inspiration are layered until separate materials begin to speak as one. The process stays open long enough for surprise to become part of the composition.

"The page changes when you let the materials speak for themselves."

Original Artwork by Claudia E. Heyer

Collected, Layered & Made By Hand

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Peace as a Practice

Paper, paint, and botanical forms on wood panel and artist canvas.

Floral Vase Collection

Layered mixed-media paper and paint, finished and signed by the artist.

Winter Landscape Collection

Small scenes built through multiple layers of paper and acrylic paint.

Mixed Media 101

Start With One Layer, Then Listen.

You do not need every supply or a finished plan. Mixed media grows through response: one mark suggests the next, one texture changes the balance, and an unexpected edge becomes the thing worth keeping.

Choose a base

Begin on paper, canvas, wood panel, or inside an art journal.

Build color

Add paint, a printed layer, or one strong shape without solving the whole piece.

Introduce texture

Bring in paper, thread, botanicals, fabric, or a found fragment.

Notice what changed

Pause, rotate the work, cover something, or leave the evidence of an earlier idea.

Bird stencil used in layered mixed-media printing

A Tool For Making Layers

Create With Positive & Negative Space

The Dura-Lar Bird Stenciling Mask protects earlier layers while new color and texture are added. Use it with a Gelli Plate, acrylic paint, and tissue paper to build a print that can stand alone or become part of a larger collage.

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Pull up a chair in the studio

Gather With Curiosity

Begin with a few materials that invite experimentation. The collection is the palette; your choices are the point of view.

Pressed Botanicals Collected Ephemera Stencils & Masks Art Journals

Make it unmistakably yours

Let The Materials Lead Somewhere New

A finished piece does not need to hide how it was made. Keep the layers, the revisions, the rough edges, and the evidence of your hand.

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