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The colors I use most often of the Dylusions paints have become thicker right in the jar. We can talk about all the possible reasons the water evaporates but the biggest one is I leave the lids off for extended periods of time. I’m working on getting better about it…but if I never get better about it…my life will still feel complete.
Some of the water evaporating turned out to be an OOPS…an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly. I love the creamy feel of the paint when it is brand new but I like it thicker even more! Why? Because it makes my life much easier.
Thicker paint is easier to stencil with if you are in a hurry or just impatient like me. I can get crisp lines on highly detailed stencils without having to be careful. That’s a big plus to me!
With those wide mouth jars, it is easy to reach in with a cosmetic sponge or brush and use up every last drop of paint so not a drop of pigment gets wasted like in the more traditional skinny tubes and jars.
It is just water evaporating so that means if I don’t want it quite as thick, all I need to do is add water. Even that is easy with the Dylusions. All I do is hit it with a few squirts of water and screw on the lid when I am done to replace any water that has evaporated. I don’t even bother to mix it in because magically by the next day it is all absorbed.
Thanks Dyan for creating such a fun paint that works for all sorts of artful play!
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Have any art supplies that haven’t been used in a while? I definitely do! I’ve bought things, enjoyed them, and then somehow they just end up in the bottom of a drawer for a very long time. But not today! I’m going to use one them, glass floral marbles which have been collecting dust in a drawer for almost 10 years!
In the video, I’m sharing how I used tape to become my third hand, how easy it is to use Staz On reinkers for stenciling, and how to easily fix any stenciling Oopsies.
Wonder how I created all those colorful gel printed papers I used with the marbles? By gel printing them and you can find out more about gel printing here.
Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you are helping me keep this blog and my videos ad free! Thank you- I don’t like ads any more than you do!
While flipping through my art journals to find a page to play with today, I landed on one that was horrifically ugly in my eyes. I could have cringed in horror when I saw the page. I could have ripped it out and thrown it away. I could have hidden the journal and never looked at it again like some kind of shaming secret.
Instead, I said Oops! The Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly was I didn’t like it. I really didn’t like it. There was freedom in that because I didn’t care if I ruined it!
What didn’t I like? It’s easier to say what I did like. I liked the shapes of star and the number 7. That’s it. The brown and mustard had to go! So I updated the colors to ones that made me happier using bright yellow, teal, and orange.
The green at the bottom was applied with the very fancy and professional tool, the baby wipe!
Very predictably, that 7 had me thinking about luck as I started writing. I wrote about how lucky I am that I love mixed media. Why lucky? Because every mistake is not really a mistake in my art play is just an Oops, an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly.
Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you are helping me keep this blog and my videos ad free! Thank you- I don’t like ads any more than you do!
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