If watercolors and acrylic paint had a love child, it would be acrylic gouache. It’s like taking the best qualities of both and then putting them in the best bottle ever for mixed media play. I’m putting this new paint from Liquitex through its paces as I make this art journal page. I found out [...]
Carolyn Dube’s Stencils
There is way too much shoulding happening in our days. Should I get the car an oil change. Should I finish the paperwork that is due soon. Should I make an appointment to get my gray hairs colored. I should this. I should that. Perhaps you’ve got that long overwhelming list of things you should be [...]
There are a 1,ooo ways to use a gel plate and what do I do? One of the simplest, most basic techniques. Why would that be a good thing? Because it kept me from falling into the trap of overthinking. Over thinking takes all the fun out of the play and I could feel my mind heading towards being stuck in the [...]
Can you use tissue paper to make gel prints? Absolutely! It’s paper and paper works on a gel plate! There is one important thing that if you know it, even when you have a juicy wet gel plate it is easy to print away on tissue. In the video, you’ll see when it ripped for me, [...]
Let’s chase away the blank page and say goodbye to all the pressure that can accompany that blankness, by gel printing directly in the journal. Why do I love to start an art journal page this way? Is it because every drop of paint is used? Is it because there is zero pressure? Is it because [...]
New stencils at StencilGirl! I say stencils because this is one stencil that includes 9 ATC sized stencils plus 2 masks are included. It’s my ATC mixup stencil that I created in the format inspired by Mary Beth Shaw. She created the first ATC stencils and what a great idea she had! How can you use this stencil? Check out [...]
What’s the play for today? It’s all about wanting and waiting for that perfect idea. Perhaps you’ve been wishing waiting for that too. I was treasuring an art journal page and waiting for that “perfect” idea to appear out of thin air. After waiting quite a while, I realized play was the perfect idea! So I grabbed what was nearby [...]
What’s the play for today? It’s all about being stuck and what to do about it. I was in my head. One minute I loved a certain part of it, then the next, I didn’t like that same part. Overthinking big time. I was never going to get anywhere as long as I was thinking this [...]
Ever have a background that you love and when it comes time to cover some of it up, you don’t want to? That’s what happened to me but I found a way around it by using a butterfly stencil-mask and some white paint. You’ll also see a new gizmo that I used to stencil the words [...]
The to-do list felt never ending. There wasn’t enough time to get it all done. Ever felt that way? I was feeling overwhelmed so I turned to my art journal to help me, the 150 year giant tome of a art journal. It’s fitting that something so big will help me with a big to [...]
