When paint pouring, if you want a plan, you can have that but if you’d like a playful adventure, you can just dump the paint on the canvas and see what happens! As my day was winding down, I added all the leftover paints to the canvas willy nilly style. Feel free to laugh at [...]
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This all started with an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly, when I spilled an entire bottle of Art Spray. The quest to keep that from happening again introduced me to what I call Splotters. Splotters are empty bottles with a dauber top that I filled with the rainbow. They became juicy, fat graffiti style markers to [...]
The leftover paint in the bottom of the cup from a dirty pour is an invitation to make another canvas. Plus it feels criminal to not use that gorgeous color mingling in the cup. So I just have to make another canvas. Can you see the muse twisting my arm and forcing me to play? But there isn’t [...]
If you can pour paint out of a cup and can tilt a canvas, then you have all the necessary skills to make a colorful piece of art to hang on your wall with paint pouring. We’re going to unleash the rainbow using just 3 colors plus white. In the video, I’m sharing how to set up your [...]
What can you do with leftover paint that drips off canvases when doing acrylic paint pouring? Capture all that colorful pattern with gel plates and make acrylic skins. The gel plates capture each and every detail! https://youtu.be/n9pliq0FiF8 Watch Capture the Pattern in Paint Pouring Leftovers with Gel Plates on YouTube. Put a gel plate, any [...]
Ever have a canvas or a page in your art journal that just stalled out when the mojo just vanished? What can you do when that happens? Give yourself a do over. If there is any part you like, keep that and then cover over whatever you don’t like. That’s what I did to jump start this canvas with white paint. [...]
You’re going on vacation and you want to bring some art supplies. But which ones? There are 3 questions I ask myself when packing that guide me when choosing what supplies to bring. And nope, I don’t use everything I bring, but you’ll see why that doesn’t bother me a bit at the end. Are they [...]
Paint can be applied to a gel plate with just about anything, even a spinning one. This time, there are no brayers, no brushes, just a spatula like tool as cake spinner makes it go round and round. I might have spun it round and round more than I had to, but it is just so much [...]
What can you do when you have the blahs and just feel, well, blah? Make a mess. Just get the art supplies out and do anything. Even making something ugly can help shake off a blah mood. In this video, you’ll see how I made a hot mess of ugly and that it doesn’t matter [...]
Quotes make great wall art, especially when you use a quote that is meaningful to you. What if you could stencil it without having to worry about lining up the letters or keeping the rows straight. That is why I designed this masking stencil, so that it was easy to create any words or phrases, and [...]
