Art Journaling - Scraping and Brayer Rolling

The third installment in the Art Journaling Mini Series is all about scraping and rolling acrylic paint to create different effects for your mixed media backgrounds and art/creative journals. These techniques are so easy to achieve they could also be done with your children. 

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Scraping Paint Technique:

Open up a new page in your journal or use a canvas or mixed media paper and apply a few thick blobs (love that word) of acrylic paint.  Here I have used three colours placed evenly at the top of the page: an electric blue, then white and bright pink.

Get an old credit or gift card and starting at the top of the page where the paint is simply scrape the card down the page spreading the paint.  Technically you could leave it there, or you may want to use a make up sponge (see tutorial 2) to mix and blend the paint slightly.  Continue scraping the paint until you get the desired effect. Have a play around with lots of different colours and even have a go with watercolour or try melting wax crayons using a heat tool or hairdryer to drip the crayon down the page (there are lots of tutorials on Pinterest on this and it is something I NEED to try).

Brayer Rolling with Acrylic Paint: 

You could continue here by adding some brayer rolling into the mix... but you don't have to of course.

I got this brayer roller very cheaply off Amazon for around £3/$5. Simply add another small blob of paint and begin rolling the paint around the page or canvas... that's it, yes really! You can mix things up by combining several colours, changing the direction of the rolling and adding textured paste or matte medium to it to create additional texture.

​​So there we have it, get creative on the cheap and try some new techniques.  Be sure to check out the other two tutorials in the mini series and check out the art goodies giveaway in post two - now closed, but you can still show me using the hashtag #kmmam (I really do want to see your work and how you have applied the techniques).
Part 1 - Art Tips for Art Journaling (Resources) 
​Part 2 - Art Journaling Techniques
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Tune in for the final series next week (with a Christmas theme - YAY) on:

• Wax crayon resist techniques.
• Using rubbing alcohol in watercolour journaling.

​Join my Facebook Art Journaling group: Kerrymay._.Makes a Mess

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