Today I am showing you how to make a background- actually two different backgrounds – for an art journal spread as easy as you count to 3…or almost as easy ;)
Picking my art journal, my Lily Wallpaper Stencil and Liquitex Spray Paint I start by spraying over the stencil over the left spread of my art journal.
Using the paint on the stencil for a negative imprint, I simply flip the stencil over to the right side and brayer over the back of my stencil
You can use the flip over step of course on a total different spread- because essentially these are actually two different background starters with the same techniques and materials. But I like to work in a double spread on my art journal and I like it when the sides are similar – like here in pattern, but still have some interesting differences.
Using a big brush I spread a thin layer of Acrylic Ink over the spread. I love how the effect – on the left side the lilly design is more bound in
while on the right, by taking some of the ink off with a baby wipe, the blue spray paint color pops even more.
I picked the same blue as a Soft Body Acrylic Paint as I used as a Spray Paint (Phthalocyanine Blue (Green Shade) for the next step. Layering my Ornament Stencil over the empty spaces of my Lily Background I stenciled single ornaments in.
And done is/are my background(s)
Here is the background 1 …and
Easy, wasn’t it? I will show you in a couple days, what I actually did in my art journal with these two backgrounds.
Here is a complete list of the supplies I used
Have an amazing day
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Kathy Gledsdale
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lovely work
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Christy Tremblay
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REALLY Cool!!!
I am going to have to try this. Thank you for sharing and the nice pictures!
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sécotine La Petite Française
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thanks so much for sharing your amazing work!!! love to play with the transparences of liquid acrylic paint!
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Maria McGuire
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Beautiful Nat!!! Will be sharing :)
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Sue Clarke
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Sweet and you make it look so easy.
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Jani Franck
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I love how the layering works – gorgeous technique, thanks for sharing :)
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