Play like a kid!

~ Let out your inner kid and enjoy free and playful art making! ~


This mixed media art journaling workshop was my contribution to Life Book 2023 and is now offered as a stand alone workshop. If you enrolled in Life Book 2023 you already have access to this class!


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I am a very positive person. I can always see the sunshine behind the clouds. But of course I sometimes feel sad or down or just want to escape from this world for a moment.

When that happens I bring out my happy colors and play.

I love to play and to create just for the sake of creating. I want to feel like the kid I was back in pre-school. Totally confident that whatever I would create, it would be a masterpiece. I could draw and paint for hours and hours and totally forget about the world around me. That feeling of loosing myself in color and forget about everything else is what I try to find when I create now. And using just the same (or similar) products as I did back then makes it even better. Some of the products we used in (pre)school are just awesome art supplies and why should only kids get to enjoy them, right?!

So come and join me for a class filled with colorful playfulness in which we will be working with wax crayons, watercolor inks, water soluble crayons, markers and more. First we will create some fun backgrounds with a lot of mark making, then we will work on top to create the actual art journal page.


This course is divided into 3 lessons:

Intro & supplies explained
Mark making - creating colorful backgrounds
Creating an art journal page


And of course you get a (downloadable) Pdf with the supply list and the technique step by step explained in text and many pictures.




Besides the main lesson you get:


A bonus lesson - Play a bit more! - in which I share a number of other ways to use the papers and supplies used in the main lesson.
10 Printable downloads that I created to use as backgrounds for the project in the main lesson, in your art journal or even as collage material.

Scroll down to see supply list.














Supply list

Note: On the list are several brands of crayons, inks etc. You need only one of each, and not necessarily the brands I mention. Please don't go out and buy everything on the list. I recommend that you first watch the introduction and then decide wether or not you need to purchase new supplies.


  • Wax or oil crayons; my all time favorites are Crayolas, but other brand wax crayons or oil pastels will work too, like Faber-Castell, Van Gogh and Mont Marte;
  • Watercolor ink or watercolor; the brands I am using in my video are Talens Ecoline, Ranger Distress ink pads and/or refills, Spectrum Noir AquaTints, Jane Davenport Incredible inks, Talens Rembrandt and Peerless;
  • Watercolor paper; I'm using an unbranded, 300 gr. paper but any watercolor paper will work;
  • (Soft) Water soluble crayons like Lyra Triple, Woodies, Neocolor II or Reeves;
  • Acrylic paint markers; my favorites are Posca but any brand will work, like Liquitex, Amsterdam or Molotov for instance;
  • Liquitex Matte Medium (or other fluid matte medium) + a Gelli Arts® Gel plate + a brayer (mine is from Speedball but any brayer will be fine) 
  • In stead of the matte medium you can use Ranger Distress glaze with a blending tool or a spray fixative or varnish;
  • Drawing Carbon paper;
  • Craft sheet; you could also use an acrylic block, a glass mat or a reusable baking sheet;
  • scissors, drawing pencil, flat brush, round brush, 2 jars with water, paper towels, gloves, heat tool, white gel pen;
  • Any kind of letter stamps + black stamping ink like Versafine, Archival or Stazon;


Come and play like a kid with me!

~ Let out your inner kid and enjoy free and playful art making! ~




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