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O.O.P.S.! I put way too much paint on my palette for my last project. Not a mistake. Not a fail. It won’t be wasted because it is just an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly for more play with stencils!
I even turned this one into a free Spark of Art-spiration…so you can play too! You can have it sent to your inbox- just use the button at the end of this post. If you are already signed up…this spark came to in the last newsletter- so you already have it ready to go!
Watch Stencil Play With Leftover Paints on YouTube.
Twist my arm to force me to play. I grabbed a scrap of paper nearby and started randomly using up that paint.
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Brick and Mortar by Mary Beth Shaw was calling to me. Since I’m using up paint, I was very generous with how much paint I used. That increased the risk of paint running under the stencil and that is just what I wanted for this imperfect and messy play.
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I wanted fine lines of blue on the green so my Picasso’s Words stencil did just the trick. One thing I love about stenciling is that you can work around irregular shapes quickly. I could see where the green was so I only added the blue there.
In the video, you can see how this works with both a clean and a dirty stencil. Shockingly, I actually had a clean stencil which doesn’t happen very often!
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Those messy numbers were courtesy of using my Never Ending Calendar stencil on very wet paint. You can actually see the suction of the super wet paint as I pull the stencil up in the video.
Since I refused to wait for anything to dry or use a heat gun to dry it, out came the fineliner for some writing. If you’re new to fineliners, I have a video here that explains them in depth.
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Love, gosh I could monoprint off that palette for a couple of days! LOL