Art Journaling & Mixed Media Art
by Aisling D'Art
Some of my free downloads. See my Free Printables page for even more.
My “door signs” are back. Here’s one of my most recent. You can click on the image to download a free, printable, 8.5″ x 11″ copy. (The original was near an open, hallway window during a mid-March blizzard, so it has some imperfections.) Here’s the backstory: In Orlando (Florida) during the peak Covid years, many…
It’s a good day for a free art mini-poster. Or maybe two. Or even all three! After all, they’re FREE! They’re PDFs. Each is designed to print on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper, with a small margin around them for matting. (The photos show what they’ll look like, framed.) Click on any image…
I love the holidays, and Christmas may be my favorite time of year. So far, I’ve created two Christmas coloring books. They’re filled with ornaments you can color, cut out, embellish, and display. Each is designed to hang on your tree or display on your Christmas wreath. (Of course, if you celebrate holidays other than…
Okay, I’m enthusiastic about coloring books. And, I’ll admit I’ve been carried away by the success of my “Bold and Easy Coloring Pages” series. This series has wider lines that are easier to see if someone has a vision challenge. And, in most cases, the coloring areas are larger. That makes them easier to color…
The idea for this started with an illustration in Photoshop Secrets of the Pros showing an eerie, monochromatic image by Joen Asmussen. The clouds in the sky of that image inspired me to try a similar effect, using some of my own graphics. I started with a public domain photo of a solar eclipse, courtesy…
Free art! This is one of many Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) that you can print from my Aisling.net website. This card has been so popular, you can also print it as a free mini-poster, about 5″ x 7″. I was working with photos of smoke. I wanted to see if I could “lift” the smoke…
I set my timer for one hour, and began this project early in the morning. My goal with each card in this series is to complete all of the art–from concept to finished image–in one hour each day. This card started with a deliberately random choice of an image from the public domain, an Asian…
This 3″ x 5″ artist trading card (ATC) started with two photos that I’d taken in Petersburg, Virginia, at a Civil War battleground. Everything was fine until I needed to add a figure as the focal point. An hour and a half later, I saved all of the layers that I was working with–to reuse…
(Originally, I called this card “Ghosts of the Old Saloon,” but later realized that doesn’t really echo the depth of what I wanted to convey with this card. I may redesign it, but – for now – here it is, anyway.) Reminder: This image includes female, upper-body nudity (if you really look for it) and…
After a wonderful weekend in New Orleans, I was in the mood for a slightly eerie, somewhat nostalgic ATC. The ATC image started with my photo from a Massachusetts park, taken early one April morning. Next, I added a public domain photo of a little girl. I have no idea who she is, but she…