Friday, June 12, 2015

  I went to Hobby Lobby recently where I found a set of Dr. Ph. Martin's liquid watercolors on clearance for $21 or $22 (of course, i threw away the packaging already). Even though Id already spent way too much, I had to get them.


  Experimenting with them, I created a cool tone and a warm tone piece. On the cool paper I tried blowing with a straw. That looks pretty cool even though, as suspected, I have like no lung capacity.  And, for the warm page  I sprinkled on some sea salt and flicked a little rubbing alcohol on with my fingers. The effect is subtle but pretty cool.


 
  Also, from Hobby Lobby I picked up some clearance embossing powder. I so didn't need them but the neon colors were very cool.


   I'm not entirely sure they turned out as smooth and opaque as the containers say, but I still like them. Especially for $1.79 each. I just tested the colors out on a few random stamps on a piece of watercolor paper. Which, of course, may have affected the result.






  A few day later, I got some spray paints from the dollar spot at target. I chose a purple and a blue. I love them. The color is intense, it sprays really well and was easier to vary the flow/mist then any other spray I have tried. I spritzed them through a couple of stencils and randomly across a sheet of water color paper.



                                                              (sorry, blurry photos)

 
  After playing around a bit with each new supply, I decided to put them all together.


   I dripped some water colors and spritzed and splattered the spray paints. Then, when I was satisfied, I tore out two of the embossed stamps and glued those on.




  Not really sure what I am going to do with it next. Perhaps I will collage bits of my clean up rags. They're almost art pieces in themselves.




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