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This week I used a paint dabber for the first time. I have avoided them for a long time seeing as I already had so much paint. But having seen how popular they are in the store, I thought I would try one out finally and see what I was missing. I used a Jenni Bowlin paint dabber and loved it. No need to use brushes and water. The paint comes out smoothly, spreads evenly and dries very quickly. I’m converted!
1. I drew boxes with a red paint dabber as shown below. Make them all look different in how much paint is used.
2. I then used some yellow liquitex acrylic ink and randomly dribbled some ink around the boxes.
3. I used a Dina Wakley stamp (restocks coming) and versafine ink. Versafine ink gives a very crisp image when stamping.
4. I applied some orange pan pastel to fill in the white spaces around the page.
5. I adhered a KI Memories border sticker at the bottom.
6. I drew black lines around the inner sections of the red boxes with a calligraphy brush and liquitex acrylic ink. I also wrote 2011 in the upper right hand box.
7. I added some American Crafts thickers for my initials in the lower right hand box.
8. In the top left hand box, I added a bit of journaling. I also used a Signo white pen around the edge of the page to add some doodling. Finally I used a Marshmallow Glimmer Mist over the top of the page to create a white wash over the top of the page.
Completed page – a simple journaling one this week!
- Art Journal is a weekly BB Blog feature posted each Friday.
