VIDEO: Making Acrylic Paint Backgrounds – Collaboration With My Arty Heart

  Surprise video time and some acrylic paint backgrounds! Well, not so much of a surprise seeing as I actually mentioned it in yesterday's video! But a sort of surprise and the first part of an art video collaboration with Jeanine from the YouTube channel My Arty Heart. Watch the video for the details of the collaboration as I show you what…

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VIDEO: Easy Acrylic Paint Background Mixed Media Technique

  I'm keeping things simple today with a really easy, but totally effective, acrylic paint background. And for a bit of contrast I have also played with one of my geometric designs as I wanted to see how it would look on this background. So if you haven't yet tried using your acrylic paints like a watercolor paint then you will enjoy…

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VIDEO: Mixed Media Art Journaling – Leftover Paint

  I'm art journaling again today and sharing some news in my video too! This page is made up of leftover paint, so if you are looking for some ideas for using up your leftover paint and how to get those leftover paint art journaling pages finished then try this one! And whilst you watch this art journaling video have a think…

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VIDEO: From Art Journal Fail To New Art

    I warn you this video starts with a rather nasty art journal fail! I mean it is ugly. A catastrophe! A mistake! A mess! Don't say that I didn't warn you! But don't worry because I save the page and make some new art from the mess and I hope that it puts you in the mood to revisit some…

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VIDEO: Art Journal Process – Easy Flowers And My Thought Processes Behind This Page

  You know when you have half an idea in your head but you aren't really sure where it will take you? Well this easy flowers art journal page is definitely one of those! I thought I would take you through my full thought process for how this easy flowers painting art journal page came into being and I really hope that…

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VIDEO: Art Journal – Easy Stenciling With A Kitchen Sponge

  You guys know that I love a bit of easy stenciling don't you? I mean give me a piece of paper and a pair of scissors and I'll give you a stencil and mask to play with! It's so lo-tech but I've gone even lower tech today because I have re-purposed a kitchen sponge - don't worry it won't be going…

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VIDEO: Art Journal – Iridescent Acrylic Paint Leaves

  More acrylic paint leaves for you today and a video of my latest Junk Journal experiments. For this video I've been playing around with painting acrylic paint leaves using those wonderful iridescent Pebeo paints that I am totally hooked on at the moment. But my acrylic paint leaves are different today as I've painted them as shapes rather than using the negative space technique…

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VIDEO: Simple Mask And Heat Embossing Technique – Art Journal Page

I've got a fun heat embossing technique for you today. It is so simple that you will wonder why you don't use it with your heat embossing all of the time! It is a really great way to stretch your stash and make more out of your stamps, particularly your background stamps, texture stamps or pattern stamps. With this really simple technique…

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