I recently joined a couple of mixed media artist groups online and am having a ball learning about mixed media. This is a brand new art form for me, and I am loving it. I create a piece of art and mail it to another artist who then adds her creative marks.

We have “events” in each group and choose whether or not we want to participate. Late last year I joined a “calendar” event where each of us creates a calendar each month and mails it to a previously assigned artist. Each one of us in the group receives a mixed media calendar each month from different artists. It is so much fun. Here is an image of a calendar page I sent out earlier this year.

We also trade ATCs (Artists Trading Cards). Where two or more artists create small trading cards and send them off to the next artist to embellish. This has been a great experience in expanding my scope of what to use in creating art. What a gift these two groups have been to me.