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Background Tutorial

Harlequin Grunge Background

This is another tutorial I wrote for my never-finished book.  This may be my very favorite background out of the whole book!

Materials needed:
Acrylic paints in black, tan and beige
Gesso
Black fun foam
White extra thick fun foam
Rubber cement
Black stamp pad ink

1.     Paint your page solid [...]

Art Journal Background Tutorial

Just before I decided to focus on art to sell rather than more e-products, I had started writing a book on creating art journal backgrounds.  I’ve decided to share these techniques with my readers as tutorials.  Here is the first one using cut-out letters on your background.

Cut out letters

Materials needed:
•    magazines
•    letter stencils or die-cut [...]