Whimsical Spa Day Tutorial

 

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Whimsical Spa Day Girl – Mixed Media Portrait Tutorial

Create a charming whimsical portrait full of personality, colour, and mixed media texture!

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to create a beautiful Spa Day Girl featuring expressive eyes, a soft towel wrap, colourful layered shadows, collage elements, and decorative mixed media details.

Perfect for beginners and intermediate artists, this downloadable workbook guides you through the entire creative process—from building a vibrant background to adding the final highlights that bring your character to life.

What's Included

✓ 12-page printable PDF tutorial

✓ Step-by-step instructions with progress photos

✓ Materials and colour palette guide

✓ Background building techniques

✓ Face and character construction

✓ Mixed media layering techniques

✓ Decorative mark-making ideas

✓ Reference page

✓ Full-size printable traceable

✓ Colour palette reference sheet

Techniques You'll Learn

• Creating layered collage backgrounds

• Building whimsical character faces

• Painting expressive eyes

• Adding colourful shadows to white objects

• Combining acrylic paint and oil pastels

• Creating depth with mixed media marks

• Adding finishing details and highlights

Suitable For

• Beginners

• Intermediate artists

• Art journal enthusiasts

• Mixed media artists

• Anyone who loves whimsical portrait art

Create a beautiful artwork while developing your own whimsical mixed media style.

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Whimsical Floral Kimono Girl

 

Introducing My New Whimsical Floral Kimono Girl Mixed Media Tutorial

I'm so excited to finally share my newest mixed media tutorial with you!

The Whimsical Floral Kimono Girl is a colourful, expressive portrait that combines collage, acrylic paint, layered shadows, floral details, and whimsical mark-making techniques. This piece has quickly become one of my favourites, and I'm thrilled to be able to teach the process step-by-step.

The Inspiration Behind This Piece

I have always loved creating whimsical girls with oversized eyes and expressive faces. For this portrait, I wanted to combine soft floral elements, vintage book pages, delicate pinks, and dreamy violet shadows to create a character full of personality and charm.

The floral kimono, textured collage background, and decorative details all work together to create a piece that feels both playful and artistic.

What You'll Learn

In this tutorial, I'll guide you through the complete creative process, including:

• Creating a collage background using vintage book pages

• Building soft layers of colour and texture

• Painting expressive eyes that become the focal point

• Adding whimsical shadows and highlights

• Creating floral details and patterns

• Using mixed media marks to bring the artwork to life

Whether you're new to mixed media or already enjoy creating whimsical portraits, this tutorial is designed to be fun, approachable, and inspiring.

What's Included

The downloadable tutorial includes:

✔ 25-page printable PDF

✔ Step-by-step instructions

✔ Progress photos

✔ Colour palette guide

✔ Materials list

✔ Printable traceable line drawing

✔ Artist tips and guidance

✔ Project progression page

✔ Copyright and usage information

Make It Your Own

One of my favourite parts of creating whimsical portraits is seeing how each artist adds their own personality to the piece.

Try experimenting with:

• Different flower colours

• Alternative kimono patterns

• New background colour combinations

• Different hairstyles

• Unique eye colours

No two portraits will ever be exactly the same, and that's part of the magic.

Thank You

Thank you for supporting my art and creative journey. Every tutorial I create is designed to encourage confidence, creativity, and joyful art-making.

I hope this project inspires you to pick up your paints, embrace imperfections, and create something uniquely your own.

Happy creating!

Paula Maree Arts
Creating art with passion & heart

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