How have you been getting on with your paper doodles? Do you remember last week I showed you how to do the Paper Doodles technique. Well, I hope you have been having fun with them! So I am back today with another paper doodle to give you some more inspiration. Don’t forget to watch the original video that shows you how to do the paper doodle technique from start to finish.
And if you post your paper doodles on Instagram, tag me in @kimdellow because you know I would love to come and see!
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I have been doodling quite a lot recently in my videos haven’t I? I’ve doodled with all sorts of different materials, you can see me doodle with acrylic paint and soft pastels or watercolors and ink in my last two videos. This week I am also doodling and I have a new doodle creative exercise to share with you that I am calling Paper Doodle!
The Paper Doodle is all about making patterns and doodles with paper collage but it isn’t ordinary collage as I will explain in this video. It is super simple to do and a great way to use up old papers. So watch the video, then have a play and share the results with me on social media as I would love to see them and all my links are at the end of this post.
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Doodling is very much on my mind again this week and I have a watercolor and ink doodle to share with you this time in my weekly art week. If you missed it last week I was using acrylic paint and soft pastels to make a doodle. But you know how much I like to mix up my media! So this week I am testing out some new-to-me watercolor paints and paper and talking through my process for testing new products too.
Enjoy the watercolor doodle and there is a side piccy of the final project as well as a peek of my Daily Doodle Diary below!
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Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper Block (10 am x 25 cm / 3.9 in x 9.8 in)
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Goldline Studio watercolor paper (200gsm/ 90lbs cold press) and alternatives in the US and CAN
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Pentel Refillable Pocket Brush Pen
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Sharpie Fine Tip Pens
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Golden Regular gel (Gloss)
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Kraft Card blanks (I had some generic card blanks but I know these papermania ones are nice too, but shop around as the prices vary widely. They are cheap here in the UK but can be expensive elsewhere!)
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Jackson’s Kolinsky Sable Series 920 (size 5) (Can get on Amazon but check Jackson’s art first as might be cheaper to get direct – the and they do a free worldwide brush delivery over £20)
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Jackson’s Art Raven mop brush size 10/0 But check Jackson’s first as could work out cheaper for you and they do free worldwide shipping on brush only orders over £20)
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I thought I would break out the soft pastels for today’s pastel doodle project. Do you use them? They aren’t the first coloring material that I usually reach for but I thought it would be fun play with them and see what I could do. I am using them with acrylic paint so I have some tips on how to use paper masks to get beautiful block shapes and then lots of tips on how to use soft pastels.
Let me know how you get on with them and scroll on down this post to see a some more of the texture of the pastels on the kraft paper I am using.
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Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Quinacridone Rose Light, Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Brilliant Blue) …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Amsterdam Acrylic Paint nozzles …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Inscribe Soft Pastels …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Derwent Pastel Pencils …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
I love messy art! I think it is totally part of the process and has so many important uses for us as artists. But I also know that messy art can be frustrating sometimes and we might end up feeling that we have gone too far and need to ditch the art or recycle it.
If you have gone through this too then I have a piece and some ideas that will help you today. But also today I am sharing a DIY adhesive mask trick, so great if you don’t have the masking film I have been using in the last two videos. And I have a trick for bringing two completely different pieces together as if they were always meant to be together.
Scroll on down for the supplies and a picture of the inside of the card!
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Gelli Plate and other monoprinting plates (I’ve used the 10 x 8 inch Gelli Plate today) …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Naples Yellow Red, Quinacridone Rose Light, Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Brilliant Blue) …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
ShinHan Masking Film L500 Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide) Amazon: UK Potential alternative (I’ve not used this but it looks like a similar product)…Buy from Amazon: US | CAN
Gel printing cards again this week and sticking with that double-sided card idea, if you missed it check last week’s post for the first card in this series. This week I found a couple of faces in the gel print design! So had to try and bring them out! But faces aren’t the only thing I thought I would try out this week. I thought I would see if I could stretch my stash and reuse an old piece of masking film, one I have used before. Will it still work?
Find out in the video and you can find a picture of the inside and the outside of this week’s double-sided card below.
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ShinHan Masking Film L500 Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide) Amazon: UK Potential alternative (I’ve not used this but it looks like a similar product)…Buy from Amazon: US | CAN
Gelli Plate and other monoprinting plates (I’ve used the 10 x 8 inch Gelli Plate today) …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Naples Yellow Red, Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Brilliant Blue) …Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN …Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Don’t forget to watch last week’s card if you missed it and you can find the video on my YouTube channel. You can also find the video where I used this film with watercolors.
And also don’t forget that I have lots of mixed media art video inspiration over there to help you get creative!
I decided to get my gel plate out to make some gel printed greeting cards. But these are gel printed greeting cards with a difference! So if you are looking for something unique that adds that little extra special experience for the recipient of the card then have a go at some double sided printing! I know, right?! There is all that lovely space on a card we should use it!
Well, I show you how this week and I have three cards in total to share with you, but as the footage added up to 2 hours worth I decided to split the video into three! So this is part one today and then the next two gel printed greeting card inspiration will follow over the next couple of weeks, so don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you aren’t already and click the notification bell so you don’t miss when they go live. Each card turned out quite different so you are going to want to see them all!
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Gelli Plate and other monoprinting gel plates (I’ve used the 10 x 8 inch Gelli Plate today)
…Buy from Amazon: UK | US | CAN
…Buy from Jackson’s Art UK (Ships Worldwide)
Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Brilliant Blue)
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Hey all, it is a new video day and this week I have a painted doodle, collage page in my junk journal for some inspiration for you. I am just loving layering doodles and paint marks at the moment and each time I do it they seem to get more complex. I am challenging myself to see how many layers I can get into one piece! I hope you enjoy watching how this painted doodle page develops from start to finish in this process video. Don’t forget to check below the video for a close-up picture of the finished projects and some links to more videos to watch!
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Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Naples Yellow Red, Quinacridone Rose Light, Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Brilliant Blue)
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People often ask me where my doodle ideas come from and how to break out of doodling the same thing so I put a creative exercise together to help build your Doodle Library and you can watch it by joining my Art Explorer Tier on Patreon.
And for more doodle inspiration for what to do with your Doodle Library watch my doodle video playlist.
I felt like do something super bright to cheer us all up! I have been a little under the weather recently and so something bright and bold was definitely called for! When you work for yourself and you aren’t able to to work at the same level that you are use to it is a little bit of a shock to the system and I have been slowly recovering and trying to get back up to my usual working speed. I am not quite there yet as you will hear in the video. My voice isn’t entirely back and so I have had to put most of this video to music. Hopefully the bright colors and bold shapes will make up for the quietness of my voice!
In the video I show you all of the layers and you can watch the piece build shape by shape. Some of you might recognise it as one of the the pages that I shared in my recent studio update video. If you do, then this is what happened to it!
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Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Quinacridone Rose Light, Nickel Titan. Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Permanent Blue Violet, Brilliant Blue)
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I hope you enjoyed watching that come together and hopefully I will be back to talk you though my next video in full! In the meantime I have lots of videso to help you with your mixed media art. Why not grab a cuppa and dig on in to my Acrylic Paint video playlist.
Last week I was playing with acrylic paint and brushstrokes and sharing ideas on how to get the most out of your mark making. This week I have swapped to watercolor! So let’s play with our brushstrokes and see what kind of looks we can get with this wonderful medium. I am just going to use a mop brush for my abstracts but feel free to swap it up and use what brushes you have. And I will be chatting a bit about brushes, paint and paper in this video today with some pointers to what to try out and experiment with.
Now just as a side note! After recording this I realised that not all the colors I am using came from the Decadent pies set. So the pink I am using is actually from the Tropicals set but I liked how it works with the Decadent Pies colors so put it in the tin then forgot that it was an addition from another set!
Oh and another thing that is very handy that I discovered after recording this video is a list of the pigments for the Prima Marketing Inc Confections range. You can find it at The Spin Doctor blog.
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Jackson’s Art Raven mop brush size 0 and 10/0
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Prima Marketing Watercolor Paints – Decadent Pies set (no. 27 and no. 35) and the pink (no. 23) from the Tropicals set
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Have fun playing with your brushstroke mark making in whatever medium you are using and don’t forget to checkout the my acrylic paint project video too, if you haven’t seen it yet! Find out more about how to add texture with just your brush and acrylic paint in this video here:
I’ve also got some more watercolor video inspiration for you using all sorts of different products, not just watercolor paint.
Thanks for popping in and have fun creating today!
One of the things that I have been playing around with and experimenting with a lot recently is simple ways to add texture with a brush to my mixed media and acrylic painting projects. It is like brush mark making 101 but it is super fun and well worth trying if you are a newbie or revisiting if you are more experienced in your art. So today I am sharing a mixed media page process video with some tips and ideas on brush textures and mark making to get you in the mood to start experimenting with brush strokes yourself.
As usual I have the products I have used below the video and then a close-up picture of the page below that, so just scroll on down to see. I am in a Traveller’s notebook today, it isn’t even acrylic paper or heavy weight but it seemed to stand up to several paint layers and other medium over the top too!
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Traveller’s Notebook from Flying Tiger
Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint (Pyrrole Red, Turquoise Green, Permanent Blue Violet)
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I have more acrylic paint videos to get you painting and you can also go watch the video on perfectionism to get some tips on how to overcome it if it is blocking you or just go and see some more pages from my Travellers notebook.
And don’t forget to join in the hop if you haven’t yet! you can find the video hop here:
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