When I sat down to paint these background papers I didn't really have a goal in mind other than to just spend some time playing with paint. Remember that "play" from my last post. I added a number of random paint colors to my palette and just started laying down color, making sure to allow each layer to dry before continuing on to the next, in fact I painted this in a mass production format. I laid out 5 papers and walked around the table adding various colors to each paper. All I used was inexpensive computer paper and my acrylic paints. As I got to this one I decided that I wanted the background to have more of a mottled look to it and triple loaded my brush with various shades of blue and just started slip slapping my brush out onto the paper, then thought that I'd dab bits of white and pink in a random manner and voila this is what came about. I actually really liked this one and thought that the paint colors were very sweet and reminded me of babies. Maybe it would be great for a baby scrapbook page or a card.
I laughed when I was scanning these that out of the five I only scanned three to post, in fact I was pretty happy with that. I only had to throw away two of them, often I throw away all of them. LOL. The point I'm making is that this is an exercise in creativity, not intended to produce great works of art, if it does then great but if not then they are round filed. These may end up having additional paint added on to them before I ever use them but for now I'm holding onto them for future use.
How many of you have some wonderful activity that you use to help you when you are experiencing a creative block or to just get the creative juices flowing? I'd love to hear the techniques that you all use. Wouldn't that be a great topic of conversation? Leave me a comment and lets see if we can give each other new ideas and techniques to use.
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