If you have done paint pour, you know that a lot of paint drips off of your canvas and ends up getting thrown away. But using this technique you can save it to make a "skin" which can then be glued onto almost anything! In this tutorial I will be putting the skin onto a Dylusions Kraft journal.

 

Here are the supplies you need:

 

    Paint Pouring Acryic Paint, Strong Crafting Glue, Cutting Mat, Craft Knife, and Wax Paper.

 

 

 

Step One: Do what you normally would when making a paint pour painting, only difference is have a piece of wax paper underneath your painting to catch the drips. For my skin I collected the drips from three different paintings. Let them build up a little bit and be able to cover a large enough area for what you want to wrap with your skin. You don't want your skin to be too thin because that makes it rip easily when taking it off of the wax paper; mine is about 1/16 inch thick. Let it dry on the wax paper until it is completely dry. (You can also make a paint pour directly onto the wax paper).

 

 

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Step Two: After completely dry, carefully peel the paint off of the wax paper.

 

      

 

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Step Three: Plan where you want your skin to wrap around the journal.

      

 

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Step Four: Glue the skin on starting at the spine and working out.

     

 

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Step Five: After glue has completely dried use a sharp knife to cut off the extra skin around the journal.

 

        

 

Step Six: Enjoy your new journal! The skin is flexible and bends around the spine of the book nicely. I am so happy with the result and I am going to save all of my paint pour drips from now on!

 

        

 

I would love to see what you create using this technique! Post your project in our Project Gallery or tag us on social media!

 

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Posted by Jessica.

Paint Like Pablo Painting Kit

This painting comes as a kit where you can make it your own with the brushstrokes and colors you chose. The paint is very vibrant and flowed nicely onto the canvas while painting. This painting took about 25 minutes.

Supplies you need:

This kit contains everything you'll need to paint like a pro! You get a 12x18 canvas that has a pre-printed image of the painting featuring fruit and a vessel, a set of 12 acrylic paints, and a paintbrush, and a step by step page explaining how to make the masterpiece come to life! There is also a small painted version of the painting so you can see the colors that are recomended. On my painting I chose to follow the colors for the fruit but have a more colorful and vibrant background.

Additional Supplies you may want:

 

 

 

 

Once your masterpiece is finished you can mount it on a board, put it in a frame, or crop and pin it to the wall. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are inspired to paint!

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Posted by Jessica.

 

New to watercolor? Here's an easy tutorial for you to make your own custom art!

 

 

Supplies needed:

• Prima Watercolor Confections - Woodlands
• Crate Paper Color Reveal panel
• watercolor brush (a bigger flat one is ideal)
• cup of water
• piece of plastic like seran wrap

 

  

 

The key word here is EASY! Even if you have never used watercolors before, you can't mess this up! 

Step 1) Choose 3-4 colors that you want to use. I love the Prima watercolors - they are so rich and come in such gorgeous shades! For this project I used the blues and greens from the Woodlands pan.

Step 2) Dip your brush in water first, then one of your chosen colors. Choose a random spot to paint on your color reveal panel/print. Repeat with the other colors - scatter them around a bit freely, overlapping in some areas. There doesn't need to be a rhyme or reason to it! You'll probably see some brush strokes and it will look unfinished at this point still. Don't worry, the next step is magic!

 

Step 3) Here comes the magic - get a piece of plastic that can be scrunched up. (I just used the wrapping the panel came in!) You're going to make a marble effect with your watercolors just by dabbing your scrunched up plastic all over. Super easy! Then you can add more colors and more dabbing until you feel like it looks done. I used my finger to wipe off any excess paint on the words. That's it! I love how the gold wording pops with this marble background! 

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Here's the video of the process:

 

 

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Thanks for joining today, and I hope you have been inspired to try out some watercolors!

-Rachel Kent

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Posted by Rachel Kent

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