Hello There!
Thanks for being here for another Mark Making Monday blog post!
Today I am sharing the idea of working a scraped paint scrap paper (try saying that four times fast) with oil pastels.
The beauty of oil pastels is that they easily glide over the top of layered backgrounds. They are also rich and vibrant in color.
Here's where it all started.
I painted this piece of deli paper to use in a Mother's Day gift for my mom.
When I got too much paint on my palette, I'd scrape the extra paint on a regular piece of copy paper to my right, rather than waste the paint.
When I was done, my "paint off" paper looked like this (see below).
I ended up using this paper to make a Mother's Day card (see below).
And I also put some in my mom's jar of collage papers that was my gift to her.
I still had some scraps of scraped paint paper left, so I decided to take those little pieces and work them with a little oil pastel mark making magic.
BEFORE oil pastels
DURING the mark making process with oil pastels
FINAL oil pastel marks and color on scraped paint scrap paper
The invitation here is to simply play with line, mark making, and color combinations. Enjoy!
Blessings,
Briana
PS If you are local to the Twin Cities, I will be teaching on the following dates:
Saturday, May 21st, 10am-2pm at courageous heARTS in Minneapolis, MN-This is the final LIVE Beautiful BEing session to write and paint as a way to get in touch with your heart and intuitive knowings.
Sunday, May 29th, 1pm-3pm at the Artful Nook in Richfield, MN-This is the Thermofax and Silkscreen Printing Workshop (NOTE: You'll need to purchase screens in advance, so don't delay! Register today and order your screens! There are suggested Etsy shops on the registration page.)
