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Ready for a new Mix-Ability challenge?!! We hope you're having fun with these! Our goal is to make mixed media easy, approachable and FUN! We want to convince you that no matter what your style is - you can DO it! Have you seen our new Mixed Media forum? I have found so much inspiration there! One day someone was talking about a fun art journaling technique for doing something very simple - just painting circles. Techniques like this help you (or me, anyway) try to build some looseness and abstraction into their work.
So let's go round and round - this week's challenge is to make circles! Here's the technique -
First, create a circle or circles with a dye-based ink - use several colors. Make LOOSE circles with an aquapainter and reinkers (what I did) or watercolor, or with your fingers. Try not to concentrate too hard - abstract is what you want.
Next, add highlights with white paint - I did this with my fingers.
Finally, stamp outlines with black paint on the edge of a glass or a plastic cup, a paper towel roll - anything round with a thin edge. This last step makes the design really pop.
Remember to use the keyword MIX73 when uploading your creations to the gallery, come back and post a link, and let us "ooooooh" and "ahhhhhh" over your works of art!
Yippee! I am so ready for something different than what I've been focusing on this week. I am aching to get my paints and other mixed media toys out for a play date!
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Here's my card! So sad I forgot to take a picture of my pretty background before I covered it up! I need to remember that trick about cutting out the center, too. :P
This is so funny - just last night I was looking at stuff online (very rare for me, but I was looking for ideas for something in particular) and one of the videos I saw was someone drawing circles and then turning them into flowers.
Mine made me think of frogspawn, LOL, but my little frog that I made got lost in the pattern, so he's still sitting on my desk.
So not me, but a lovely fun way to spend a Friday afternoon after work - thanks, Lydia. MIX73 Hit the Happy Spot
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Oh, this was fun!! Lydia, I hope it was OK to create my circles using the Gelli Plate along with the Packing Tape Technique (I also added some circles with Dry Embossing but hard to see in the photo) :-)
I have been playing with this and have several sheets drying. Don't know what to do with them yet, but did a page in a journal. Will photo it when it dries.
Finally posting I seem to always come in later in the week.. I know I saw this design on line and I can't remember who it was that I was inspired by.. So whoever thank you..
MIX73 - Round and Round (June 20, 2014)
