Archive for March 10th, 2009:

Tutorial Tuesday: Speckled Paint Background

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This week’s tutorial idea came about when I was playing around with some watercolour crayons last week.  While I was painting with the crayons, I noticed speckles of paint flicking off onto scrap paper.  You can purchase speckled paper, but what I love about this technique is that you can create speckles to coordinate with your image, such as the one pictured here.

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Supplies:  Watercolour crayons, brush and water, stamp

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Stamp out your image, or colour your image as I have done here.  Lightly mist your stamp with water, colour your stamp, and stamp out your image.

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With a wet brush, sweep the top of the crayon towards you so that speckles of paint fall over your image.  The more water you use, the fainter the speckle.

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This photo shows the painted speckles quite clearly.  You are now ready to create your card.

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