mixed media

My art-a-day is all over the place again this year - want to try my hand at so many things.  As a result of an online class w/ Traci Bautista, I made a couple mixed media pieces:  acrylic, spritzed watercolor paint, stencils, stamps, oil pastels, markers, bic white out pen and even a bingo marker!  If you're interested, I posted some of the interim steps on my blog - click here.

Traci advocates having a second (in my case a third too) piece of paper to clean stencils and brushes on so you create multiple things at once and no paint/ink goes to waste.  I started with a 12x12 canvas and ended up with the 2 watercolor papers filled as well.  There were certainly stages in each that I hated what I was doing and despaired of a result I would like, but I kept moving forward.  While I don't LOVE any of them, I learned a lot and have many ideas floating about on how to apply the techniques differently next time.....