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I have made a mess, a giant, painty, mixed media mess! When I am spray inking or painting pages I put a journal page below, a large piece of watercolor paper, or any thing else I can find to catch the “extras”. Here’s what my studio looks like right now…
The paper that is on the counter has a basic watercolor wash on the base, then paint scrapes, smears, and plenty of spray ink. There is still plenty more that will happen to this paper before I am done with it, but for now it is a happy background waiting for the next layer…nothing like indoor lighting to make it look far more yellow than it really is…
I really love this girl stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. I think it is the flowing hair that I’ve fallen in love with…and I love that she got me using so many odds and ends!
The background was made while coloring ribbons and die cuts with spray inks. I hate to waste beautiful inks so when I spray I often do it over a blank journal page. The purple tags were used to soak up extra inks from my glass counter top. The stars were die cut using papers I made from my daughter’s homework. You can see that post here. I used up the last bits of a pink translucent glitter glue, the ever fancy Crayola brand (thanks kids for letting me use your stuff), on her flowing hair.
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The paper that is on the counter has a basic watercolor wash on the base, then paint scrapes, smears, and plenty of spray ink. There is still plenty more that will happen to this paper before I am done with it, but for now it is a happy background waiting for the next layer…nothing like indoor lighting to make it look far more yellow than it really is…
