Media is the techniques and materials used by an artist to create a work. For example, an artist may use a marker and a chalk pastel with glaze paint on wood and apply it with a brush and his fingers. These are several elements that combine into one final product. The Asian mixed media technique is simply mixed media but with Asian themes, such as nature, the idea of family and Asian culture.
According to Diane Abt on her official website Dianeabt.com, her work is fueled by beauty that she finds in Asian brush writing, small horrors in human suffering and luscious color. Her mixed media is made up of oil-based paints on smooth Plexiglas, which she then transfers to paper by using an etching press. Often, she presses bits of Asian calligraphy onto her work, furthering her idea of mixed media.
Miayoshihara.elevatemedia.com describes Mia's love of paper cutting and Japanese ribbon, which she quickly applies to her own version of mixed media. Meticulously, she cuts silhouettes with a razor and overlays a combination of various patterns, colors and textures.
Venita's mixed media art is primarily ethnic with religious over and undertones. She has mixed media that represents minority groups of the United States: African American, Native American, Latin and Asian. On her official website Venitahawkins.com, she yearns to express these people's souls and does it by using vintage images, random objects, acrylic paints, old books and music pages.