It wasn’t my fault I kept playing! Really! It was my muse! My goal was to use up the paint on my palette…but she kept whispering in my ear for more colors…more paint…so I HAD to keep playing.
An endless loop of happiness! Can’t you just imagine how much she had to twist my arm to add more colors!
In the video you’ll see my messy stenciling. Nothing else was precise on this page so I wanted that stenciling to look just like it belonged!
And most definitely laugh along as I try to use up all the paint…I know I was laughing especially with my efforts with the teal paint in the beginning that proved to be fruitless!
Watch Building up layers in an art journal with leftover paints and stencils on YouTube.
Here’s the art journal page I started with and you can see how this page developed from just a piece of cardboard step-by-step videos in my free workshop, Permission to Play. You can find out all about it and join in the fun here.
First I needed more orange…then I needed more teal…when the muse talks I do my best to listen.
This was a tough moment for me. I loved those words in the middle of the page but they just didn’t work there with the way the page had progressed. So I made the sacrifice and painted over most of it.
Sounds very dramatic doesn’t it. It felt that dramatic for about 2 seconds and then I remembered it was just paint and cardboard. But I did leave a few of the words peeking out.
And never use pens in wet or damp paint. Why? It makes it hard for pens to work right…but I just keep on doing it because it is just plain fun to break the rules plus I’m a bit impatient! In the video, you’ll see that I had to switch pens because I just couldn’t get the first to work right.
Thank you muse for “forcing” me to play with more colors! If you’d like to jump into art journaling and see where your muse takes you- take a peek at my free workshop, Permission to Play.
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Should my art supplies have an expiration date on them? These mistable puffy frames are from 2010…and I still hadn’t used them.
How? With one sentence. Use it or lose it. What isn’t used in this one session is getting thrown away (since a half used supply isn’t really donation worthy). As I added the Color Burst metallics to them it wasn’t too tough on my inner hoarder. But as soon as I started putting them in the journal, she flipped out and I became indecisive.
