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10 Minute Painted Background For Lettering & Crafting
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This painting technique creates a lot of texture & motion. It’s a great background for lettering, handmade cards, & scrapbooking.
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You’ll need paper/canvas, small flat brush, palette, multiple hues acrylic paint in one color family, a couple metallics, white, & paper towels.
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Fill your palette with acrylic paints. You need several hues of one color (I’m using green), plus a few metallics, white, & one pop color.
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Start painting with light, loose strokes. Go slow, my video is sped up 1.5x so you can see the full process!
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Here’s a look at the loose strokes in slow motion. The brush goes in a different angle each time, almost making X’s and V’s.
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Rotate between a few light colors & white to cover the full canvas.
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Time to start layering! Using a light touch with very little paint on the brush, create more sporadic angled strokes.
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Martha Stewart’s pearl paint works great here to add depth and dimension.
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Brush off excess paint as needed.
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Continue adding lots of different hues and metallics.
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Add back in some flat white to create depth and light.
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Time for a contrasting or pop color, I chose a blue that still has a lot of green in it. Use this sparingly!
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Layer some greens back over your pop color. You don’t want the pop color sitting on top of everything else.
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As you get towards the end, pick up the piece frequently to look it over and see what more it needs.
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Mine just needed a little more mid green and metallic silver, then it’s done!
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Here’s a full time lapse in another color way. In real time this painting took just under 10 minutes!
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Time to get crafty with your custom hand painted backgrounds!
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Jessie Katz Greenberg
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