Mix MediaConcepts Watercolor Acrylic Gesso Oil Paper by Esther Candari

Mixed Media 101

🖌️ Explore the liberating world of mixed media. In this 5+ hour demo, Esther Hi'ilani Candari teaches you how to combine drawing, painting, and collage into cohesive, harmonious works without letting any single medium take over.

You’ll learn how to:

🎨 Balance multiple mediums in a single composition for maximum visual impact
📐 Prepare your surfaces properly to achieve professional, archival-quality results
🖌️ Apply foundational techniques across drawing, painting, and collage
🌟 Work through two complete projects from start to finish, putting principles into practice


Perfect for artists who want to experiment with mixed media while maintaining control, cohesion, and creative freedom. 🕒 Runtime: 5+ hours

  • Esther Hi'ilani Candari

    Instructor
  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Esther Hi'ilani Candari

Esther Hi’ilani Candari is a primarily figurative artist who often explores the nuance of human culture, experience, and psychology that can be expressed through portraiture. The foundations of her oil painting techniques are traditional in nature, but her meticulously crafted multimedia applications infuse the final works with a unique, innovative, and captivating edge. 

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