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October 2011

My last post showed you how to use a transparency with straight lines.  For this page I used the same technique to make wavy lines for journaling. Start by slicing a transparency.Use your finger to smear paint on it.  The first one I did was cleaner – I immediately did the 2nd one and I [...]

A leftover transparency made my black lines.   Take an ordinary transparency.  Notice this is a dirty, junky one.  Use an Exacto knife to slice lines in it.  Take paint and rub it around on top of the lines.  Your paint will seep and be wonderfully splotchy in a random way.Here are 3 that I did [...]

Soon I’ll be heading off to my first Art Is You in Danbury, CT.  There’s a Seussian theme to this art event so my elementary teacher supplies came in so handy!  I had a bunch of Seuss buttons that inspired my trades.  A few stencils, a die cutting machine, plenty of paint, an old typewriter, [...]