Inside the Layers: Tell Your Story Through Mixed-Media Collage

Inside the Layers: A Guide to Meaningful Mixed-Media Collage

Create a personal collage using color, texture, imagery, memory, and your own visual language.

Launch Price: $9

Regular Price: $12

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Inside the Layers is a 14-page downloadable guide by mixed-media artist and teaching artist Simone Anthony-Brown. Designed for beginners and returning creatives, it offers a simple, approachable process for creating an original collage inspired by your own ideas and experiences.

Rather than copying a finished artwork, you’ll use Simone’s process as a starting point to develop something personal.

What’s Included

• Your 14-page downloadable guide includes:
• 14-page downloadable PDF
• Six-step mixed-media collage process
• Guided Layers of Memory project
• Printable planning and reflection page
• Five additional collage prompts
• Artist-developed techniques and examples

Who This Guide Is For

This guide is ideal for beginners, returning artists, creative journalers, and anyone interested in exploring personal storytelling through collage.

No formal art training is required.

What You’ll Need

Basic collage materials such as paper, scissors, adhesive, acrylic paint, a brush, and a small selection of images or paper scraps.

A complete supply list is included in the guide.

About the Download

This is a digital product.

After purchase, you will receive access to a downloadable PDF that you can:

• save to your computer or tablet
• read digitally while you work
• print in full
• print only the planning and reflection page
• return to for future collage projects

No physical product will be shipped.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is this guide suitable for beginners? Yes. Inside the Layers is designed to be approachable even if you have never created a mixed-media collage before.
2. Do I need drawing or painting experience? No. Drawing experience is not required. The project focuses primarily on paper, imagery, color, texture, paint, and simple marks.
3. Do I need special art supplies? No. You can begin with basic supplies and materials you already have. The guide includes suggested materials, but you do not need everything listed.
4. Do I have to print the entire guide? No. You can read the guide digitally and print only the planning and reflection page if you prefer.
5. What size collage will I make? The guide recommends an 8-by-10-inch, 9-by-12-inch, or 11-by-14-inch surface, but you can adapt the process to another size.
6. Is this a physical book? No. This is a digital PDF download. Nothing will be mailed.
7. Can I use this guide to teach a class or workshop? The standard purchase is for individual personal use only. Schools, libraries, teaching artists, and organizations should contact Express Yourself Studios for group-use or educational licensing.
8. Can I share the PDF with someone else? No. Each purchase is licensed to one individual. Please do not copy, upload, email, or redistribute the file.

Personal-Use License

Your purchase includes individual, personal, noncommercial use of the guide.

You may download the PDF, print a copy for yourself, and use the prompts and techniques to create your own original artwork.

You may not copy, resell, distribute, upload, reproduce, or share the guide in full or in part without written permission.

Schools, libraries, teaching artists, and organizations interested in group use should contact Express Yourself Studios for licensing information.

Start Creating

Gather a few materials. Choose a meaningful starting point. Follow the six-step process and see where the layers take you.

Download Inside the Layers: Mixed-Media Collage Guide

Introductory Launch Price: $9 - Regular Price: $12