MIXED MEDIA TEXTURE EFFECT!

Take a used dryer sheet. Tear it into smaller pieces if you wish, or rip holes into it. Adhere it to a canvas with either gel medium or acrylic paint. Here several colors of acrylics are being used to glue down the dryer sheet.

Notice the other dryer sheet, in the upper left corner.




Here's the finished textural area, below.

Using Paste Wax as a Resist

I painted a metallic peachy color on watercolor paper using acrylics first. When that was dry, I applied regular ol' Johnsons Paste Wax in swirly shapes. Then I painted more acrylics in two other colors and allowed them to dry. Finally I wiped off the paste wax and admired my newly-decorated paper!

Now for a shameless plug: Watch for my book called Creating Decorative Papers, to be published by Stackpole in 2012!

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