I love this idea! My husband suggested I get a couple of collages framed. I thought it was crazy but he pointed out the work is original and I shouldn’t be embarrassed or think it’s not good. So. I did it and glad! And now I have another way of breaking the negative voice in the back of my brain! Love this idea for personalized gifts!

My love of gel printing led Me to Narrative Surreal Collage. I have m-a-n-y gel prints, so when I stumbled upon this video of yours, I thought "Wow!"... I can make a million of these! LOL LOL Not everyone can afford big-ticketed items, so this is PERFECT! And instead of getting a 'print', they would be getting an 'original'. Thank you SO much, Pam, for the idea! Sometimes the simplest solution is the BEST! LOL

🎉 Really enthralling colourful touch lovely 🌹

This is a great idea. When I was in Alaska, I found so many art pieces I wanted to take home, but didn’t have room in my suitcase (nor the money for originals). So, I brought home many minis! And I love Bob Burridge, too!

Terri again. I had a collage teacher years ago who said that once a year (at least) you should get a piece of your art framed. Just something you should do for yourself as an artist. These little ones are great. Thanks for the link for the mat boards, with the bags, they are now on my Christmas list.

Wow. What a difference a mat makes! TFS

I'll have to give this a try! I've been mounting my collages on wood panels, but I want to try matting them as well. Looks great!

I love this idea, I can see turning the paint blots into leaves by adding branches, or using an ink stamp that is only words to add an element of interest. Thank you for sharing.

I love your book of possible titles. The one with the ladder looked like a tree swing: A Time to Return. I love that one!!

Love Bob Blast, this whole thing was great! Makes everything look so professional. Thx

I love the ladder cards!!! I just bought them. 😂😊

This was great! Thank you, Pam! ❤

Love this idea. Thanks for sharing

Great ideas! I have piles to go through now. Thanks!

REALLY NICE !!! LOVE YOUR ART!

Merci! Great tutorial for simple and quick gifts. 😊

soo helpful! thanks for sharing! and I love your small paintings !

Thank you Pam for sharing. I find your videos both inspiring and educational. Please keep producing your videos.

Thanks! I got so many ideas from that!

This is such a WONDERFUL IDEA‼️👌♥️. Thank You🎁 Toom@CapeTown

I love this so much! I have many art pieces just in a bin! Awesome idea! 🥰

Thank you for this video, I learned a lot, but mostly that small work of art you framed is beautiful, I definitely would buy that.

❤ I just received my first gel plate and learned sooo much from your video. I’m ready to begin thanks to you!

Thank you for a wonderful and useful video.👌‼️💐Toom@CapeTown

I’ve been cutting up my larger watercolor paintings and doing exactly this.. sometimes the entire painting isn’t the greatest BUT certain portions are great.

Very special.

Just found you and I loved watching this. You are so genuine and talented. I'd have never thought to do something like this with my scrap stuff. I'm very please to be a new subscriber.

Awesome. I do the same with my pieces. And heh Emily Carr worked on cardboard as her substrate!

I've been feeling to do mini-art! Got out the mini brayer and metallic acrylics yesterday, in fact. 😀 Thank you for your inspirational videos! 🙏

Lovethese, Pam! Have you found a place to get mats?

Thank you for the informative video! I just ordered the 100-pk matboards through your link. I hope this works with some of my blackout poetry on book pages and other mixed media experiments. New subscriber! (Oh, and love the notebook with phrases and words you like.)

I love your creative words book idea, I always struggle with titles 😊x

I love Bob Burridge

What a fun video. So inspirational and not intimidating. Very freeing! Thank you. Do you teach-workshops?

I have often wondered how many people get trolled for not using archival materials. Some people will care and others won't. I agree with you that the dilemma can be solved by being honest about it up front. You'd have to charge less, but I don't care about that. I'm not Pable Picasso after all.

I often make the mistake of signing BEFORE I mat them. It is definitely a better idea to do it AFTER.

Thanks for the demo's. Very interesting and helpful

Pam I love your artwork. I have noticed that the majority of the U Tube video’s I watch as far as mixed media art is concerned that the desks where the awesome art is made is either white or brown and wood grain. Any specific reason?

I tried doing this last year. I had made some small paintings and bought those mats with cellophane. I didn't sell any.. but I did sell some Jewelry I make. I really like your style and your color pallet you use. It is very inspiring. I will say, as a librarian, I still always cringe when I see books being used for art pieces... I mean its fine for mass market work but i know that folks don't generally bother looking up to see what they have.. (I hate it when folks paint over even vintage or antique furniture!).. I just say PLEASE research what you have before you just paint over it. If it is just a mass produced thing (check copywrite etc)... Also, regarding the archival quality.. I remember there is a spray or something that allegedly you can use on things like newspaper or old old books to stabilize the acidity in the paper. I have used it in the past but I don't know where I put those to check how they are holding up. I used to save a lot of newspaper stories and wanted to keep them from falling apart. My great grandmother was a genealogist and saved all our family newspaper clippings back in the 40s and 50s before more awareness was known.. so these super fragile scrapbooks (the paper in the scrapbooks were crumbling!!!) THey are now in an archives but I photographed all the pages to save the information..... but yeah, its a problem...

What kind of glue are you using. Looks very thick.

Loved this tutorial! Do you paint mostly in watercolor or acrylic? Is this painting that you framed up both? It's really beautiful. Thanks for sharing your process.

how do you handle the non archival lpapers?

what do you charge for the 5x7 pieces?

I’m curious what kind of price you’re asking for these that would make it worthwhile. It seems like a lot of work for pieces that are so small and not archival and, therefore, would need to have a price reflective of that. Although the buying public isn’t typically educated about matters of permanence so maybe that’s not an issue?

so how much do you charge or would you charge for a non archival piece of art? I know that each location is different.. but are these more of your "affordable for the masses /sample" pieces? I mean do you charge 5, 10, 25?? How do you figure that out? (I Mean after you account for supplies etc)

Hi, I have a couple of questions if you don't mind: Why back the painting with cardboard (or chipboard), why not just glue it to the mat backing and then glue the mat to that? Would it not be stable enough? I guess I don't understand why the mat and back would not be glued together before selling. Also, if you sign the back of the cardboard and the buyer glues it to the mat back, then your signature and name of the piece are hidden, so wouldn't it be better to sign and name on the back of the mat board? Thanks! :)

Isn't Robert Burridge amazing??! 😊❤

None of your pieces were ugly as you call them. Your matboard opening is too small and doesn’t show the originality of the pieces. I’ve been a framer for over 25 years.