Today I’m sharing some playful tips to help you bring your projects together. This exercise helps with decision-making, deciding what you like and what you don’t. Teaches you about color… Plus, I show you simple ways to make a project cohesive.
This is pure play, no perfection, and so much fun!
I hope you give it a try! And always know that you are loved!
Details & supplies for this challenge↓
Steps to the artsy mashup: Gesso (Utrecht gesso) 4 8.5 x 11 or 8×8 copy paper, a scruffy, large brush to get lots of brush strokes.
Choose which analogous colors you want to start with. (I started with yellow green, green, and blue green) You can choose what you want. Then move on to the next analogous colors using the last color from your previous selection.
Choose a lot of random tools to work with. Different size brushes (Round brush in different sizes, Variety of brush, Angle brush set), a Brayer, a palette knife (Palette knife set)… anything you want. Work wet into wet. Don’t stop.
Don’t think too hard about how you’re laying the paint down. Use a different tool each time you switch colors.
Then add marks. You can scratch into the paint, scribble, and mark with a charcoal pencil (General’s charcoal pencil set), a stabilo all pencil (Stabilo all pencils), or a graphite stick.
Then, with a light color like unbleached titanium or titan buff, make shapes. I chose ovals. You could do squares, circles, triangles, octagons, etc.
Complete 4 pages like this with each section of analogous colors. Once they’re dry. Cut them into 4 pieces.
Then take one from each color section and audition them to put together once you decide which ones, put them down with matte gel.
Then make them cohesive with black and white marks or splatters
Have fun and just play!
Supplies that I used:
- copy paper,
- 2” chip brush, all sizes and types of brushes, brayer,
- any type of palette knife,
- Stabilo All pencil, General’s charcoal pencil ex. soft, graphite stick,
- palette knife or the end of a brush to scratch through paint,
- Liquitex gesso black and white
- all types of acrylic paint,
- Liquitex matte gel
- Acrylic paint in a neutral like beige, titan buff, unbleached titanium…etc.
