Description
Jump right into your art with Rae Missigman’s quick and easy background techniques! In this video workshop, Rae shares her clever strategies for putting down three wildly different paint colors with just one brush–no brush cleaning required! After creating a series of these foundations, you’ll embark on a layering process full of fun and easy-to-follow techniques, including stamping, using custom stickers (made with your own artwork!), and stenciling for interest and texture. Rae demonstrates how to use masking fluid and acrylic paint to create areas of highlight, shadow, and resist, and finally shows you how to bring the pieces together by creating focal points and adding your own signature marks!
In this video you will:
- Create 2 small abstract paintings from start to finish.
- Learn to paint colorful, no-mud backgrounds using a unique blending technique.
- Develop focal points from abstract marks.
- Experiment with a variety of mark-making tools, including paint pens and markers.
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Materials List:
- Surface
- Poster board (other options include art journal, Bristol paper, mixed-media paper, or canvas)
- Media
- Assorted acrylic paints – including heavy body, soft body, and fluid
- Assorted art journaling pens including black and white, gel and permanent
- China Markers – including black and white
- Derwent Inktense blocks (optional)
- Gel medium or glue stick
- Masking fluid or rubber cement
- Paint markers
- Portfolio oil pastels (optional)
- Stabilo Marks-All pencil (can be used wet)
- White gloss craft paint
- Other Tools and Materials
- Collage paper
- Makeup wedges
- Paintbrushes
- Palette knife
- Palette paper
- Paper towers or old rag
- Pencil
- Rubber eraser pickup
- Scissors
- Scraper or old gift card
- Spray bottle of water
- Stamps
- Staz-On permanent ink pad
- Stencils or masks
- Water brush (optional)
- Your art printed on white shipping labels
About the Artist
Rae Missigman is a self-taught mixed-media artist who loves to create, blog, and instruct. She has a fondness for both pattern and color, which has led her to create outside the lines, resulting in artwork that is both busy and polychromatic. Rae offers both online and in-person classes. She is a designer for StencilGirl Products and designs her own stamps. You can find Rae’s work in numerous art publications including Cloth Paper Scissors, as well as on her website, RaeMissigman.com.
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