Merrill Art: Cool Mixed Media Painting Technique

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Hey everyone it's Merrill. I made this video to show you a unique and hopefully amazing mixed media art technique that I use to create my "characters". Over the years, I have made more than 2000 characters which I save as PNG files, to reuse in my painting compositions. I use a mixed media approach to art making. I start with a pencil sketch. Then I add my first layer of color with AD Chartpak illustration markers. Next, I use Prismacolor colored pencils. Next, I use a scanner so that I can digitally edit my drawing. I use the archaic Photoshop competitor program Paint Shop Pro 10 to digitally refine my artwork. This program enables me to collage photos from Google Image Search in to my Artwork. Then I use a large format printer (HP DesignJet 510) to print my work on to a canvas. I then use a paint brush and my knowledge of oil and acrylic painting techniques to finish off my painting. I call this work Man With Dog and it is based upon a meeting I had with a parent at parent/teacher conferences (I am a teacher). I hope that you find my process interesting and fun. If nothing else, it is a unique way to transform my ideas in to something tangible. I like to create art and I am more known on YouTube for my step by step drawing videos. This is something different and hopefully something cool. It aint beautiful, but art is a bi product of an artists reactions to the world around him.