I am a mixed media artist

Jaime is a mixed media artist and sees her art as a hybrid of mixed media art techniques and more traditional fine art/portraiture. She considers herself mostly self-taught.

Jaime loved art from a young age when she discovered a wooden art case filled with oil paints and brushes that belonged to her late grandmother. She always wondered what her grandmother would have created had she had the chance, and because of that remembered to keep art in her life even when life took her on a few detours.

She attended Colby-Sawyer College in NH and minored in 2D art while receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Development. She took a break from art for a while to be a teacher, then started doing scrapbooking in 2004 and then digital scrapbooking around 2007. From there, she moved to doing mixed media on canvas and paper to help her heal during a divorce, teaching herself how to do different techniques and styles through books, YouTube videos and online courses.

In 2018, she started combining mixed media backgrounds with portraits on canvas. As she has learned how to paint portraits, she has worked to try new ways of combining her mixed media backgrounds and her portraits. She still feels like she is “learning” and likes to take on new projects and ideas that are both unique and a little bit scary to help her grow even more as an artist.

In the beginning of her art journey, she felt unsure of her skills and spent many years teaching herself as much as she could before meeting and working with a professional artist who taught her oil painting, gouache, composition, and – most importantly – how to “think like an artist.” Because of this, Jaime believes that artists don’t have to stop learning or finding new ways of creating their artwork. And because she remembers that feeling of wanting to create art but lacking skills, she loves to encourage other artists to pursue their art (no matter where they are starting from) on her YouTube channel and hopefully someday in person.

Jaime works in acrylic, oil, mixed media, gouache, inks and watercolors. She is a collector of found objects and natural materials like shells and shark’s teeth and once (carefully) glued an expired black widow spider to a painting. Jaime loves to include her found objects on her canvases along with paper, fabric, beads, glitter, and whatever else strikes her fancy.