Welcome! I’m Carolyn Dube – This colorful journey is all about the freedom of play!
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 like that look. I don’t clean the transparency off so what mess happens happens.
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 with just one application of paint. 
I then turned the stencil and did 3 more to create grids.
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, paints, and viola! Trades.
