Description
MIXED MEDIA GRID JOURNALING
Instructor Lyra Rose
March 21, 2025
Grid journaling provides a structured framework, a “container,” for play, reflection, repetition, and practice. It is a tool you can use for your artistic development and self-discovery and can be adapted to your preferred style and medium preferences. It can also be adopted as a daily exercise to keep your creative muscles in tune, for stress relief, or as a meditative practice.
What we will cover and explore:
- Understanding the grid as a compositional and conceptual tool.
- Using the grid as a structural framework for exploration, experimentation, and play.
- Develop visual consistency through repetition and variation.
- Exploring ways to develop your unique visual language.
- Focusing on process over finished outcomes.
- Prompts for continued practice at home.
This class is suitable for all skill levels.
Artist Bio Lyra Rose is a self-taught mixed media artist whose work explores process, intuition, and the quiet power of accumulation. Working across paint, drawing, collage, and texture, her practice is rooted in experimentation and play, allowing materials to guide each piece as much as intention does. Her work often unfolds in layers—mark by mark, grid by grid—creating spaces that hold reflection, memory, and movement. Influenced by journaling practices, abstraction, and tactile surfaces, Lyra Rose embraces imperfection as a record of time and presence. The act of making is as central to her work as the final image, revealing traces of decision, revision, and discovery. Based in the United States, Lyra Rose continues to develop her practice through ongoing exploration of mixed media techniques, using her art as a living archive of process, curiosity, and personal narrative.
Mixed Media Grid Journaling Materials List:
- Mixed media paper or art journal. 8”x11” or larger is a good size.
- Glue stick or your favorite colláge glue, such as gel or matte medium
- Black and white acrylic paints
- Two additional acrylic colors of your choice
- Brushes for acrylics
- Palette
- Water container
- Paper towels and scrap paper
- Pencil and eraser
- Misc: Scissors, ruler
- Mark-marking tools: black Sharpie or Posca pen (or similar), plus any favorite
mark-making tools.
- Optional: colláge ephemera of choice






