When Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Books are combined with Liquitex acrylic paint, the perfect platform for artistic collage is created.

Techniques include:

• playful paint applications such as dry brushing and layering
• using masks & stencils
• painting over printed, old, and ripped paper bits
• incorporating printed images into collage

Materials:

• Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Book 6″ x 6″
• Liquitex acrylic paint
• Acrylic paint brushes—these brushes are stiff and have white bristles. They work better than watercolor brushes (soft, brown bristles) for these techniques.
• Old printed papers, papers w/ words, napkins (separated into one layer)
• Stencils or masks (masks are pieces of paper cut into shapes for painting around, as opposed to inside as you would a stencil)
• Tacky glue or decoupage medium, such as Liquitex Matte Gel Medium
• Images printed on paper

Instructions:

1. On the Blank Board Book, start out by freely painting a base color in some areas of the surface but leaving some open white space. The paint should dry quickly.
2. Adhere paper with printed words using a decoupage or tacky glue to white and/or painted areas. Press paper from center out to keep surface smooth.
3. Continue to paint using stencils or masks cut from edges of scrap paper in shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.
4. Have fun and be playful with strokes, painting with wide, short, small and big strokes.
5. Try dry brushing (small amount of paint on the brush) over areas.
6. Layer your painting by letting a painted area dry then paint over it with a different color, freely or with a stencil or mask.
7. Glue more patterned paper if desired, and add more strokes of paint on top.
8. Once the surface is painted and dried add a collage image and various embellishments.

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