Key Points
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Acrylic inks offer a vibrant, fluid medium for creating unique painted papers, perfect for collage, paper dolls, and art journaling.
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This playful, low-pressure process encourages experimentation with color, texture, and pattern—helping artists reconnect with creativity.
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Using stencils, stamps, fabric, tissue, and glossy photo paper can produce surprising and beautiful effects.
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The tutorial demonstrates step-by-step techniques to build a stash of versatile “painty papers” for future art projects.
Welcome back to The Paper Doll Chronicles! 🎨✨
DIY Painty Papers with Acrylic Inks | Expressive Arts for Joy & Self-Acceptance
This is Part 2 of a two part series - here is Part 1.
This week in The Paper Doll Chronicles, we’re diving into the magical, fluid world of acrylic inks to create Painty Papers with a Purpose—custom collage papers you’ll later transform into unique paper doll clothing.
Why acrylic inks? Because they’re playful, abstract, and full of surprises—just like life.
Working with these vibrant, flowing colors invites you to:
- 🎨 Let go of perfection and enjoy the process.
- 💖 Accept and even celebrate the unexpected.
- 🌈 Reconnect with your inner artist and creative joy.
We’ll splash, drip, blend, and layer—creating pages that hold your colors, your textures, your energy.
Later, these will become the fabrics of your paper doll’s wardrobe—a symbolic act of dressing yourself in acceptance, play, and possibility.
This isn’t just about making pretty papers. It’s about practicing presence, honoring your creative impulses, and remembering that you are allowed to make art simply because it brings you joy.
Grab your inks, some paper, and let’s get messy—in the most beautiful way. ✨
Suggested supplies
- A variety of types of paper, book pages, tags, etc. Dig into your stash and see what you have on hand
- Acrylic inks- especially black and white plus a few colors you love
- Brushes
- water
- paper towels
- baby wipes
- Stencils, stamps and other mark making tools
- Stabilo Marks All pencil
Video
Transcript
Video title: Painted Papers with Purpose: DIY Handmade Collage Papers Part Two Using Acrylic Inks
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcOL0OldlE
Video language: English (auto-generated)
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[0:01] : Good morning, my creative friends, and welcome to Painting in Your PJs with
[0:06] : Manette. I'm Dr. Minnette Ryarden, and I am so excited to welcome you, whether
[0:11] : you have been joining me for a while or maybe this is your first time stopping
[0:16] : by. So painting in your PJs is all about how do we use expressive arts, narrative
[0:23] : arts, playing with paint and image and collage as tools for self-discovery on
[0:30] : our midlife journey. I deeply believe that midlife is not a crisis. It's an opportunity for a renaissance and art
[0:37] : was the thing that really helped me personally reconnect with my purpose,
[0:42] : sort of forge a new path forward as well as healing. so much of the past and the
[0:48] : old stories that I have carried for oftentimes decades. And I know I'm not
[0:55] : alone on this journey. And this year we have been focusing on what I'm calling the paper doll chronicles. We have made
[1:02] : a lot of paper dolls over the last six months. And this month we are pausing
[1:07] : from doll making to create our own painted papers. Last week we worked with
[1:12] : acrylic paints. Today I'm going to be working with acrylic inks which are playful, very flowy and fluid. You can't
[1:21] : have a lot of control over them. And we're going to make a happy mess and see
[1:26] : what kind of magic we can create on the page. I deeply believe that the more
[1:31] : that we use our materials, the better we get at learning how to use them. The more we access that innate sense of
[1:39] : childlike wonder and the spirit of play, then the easier it is to really get
[1:47] : connected and have that energy and spirit of
[1:54] : youthful exuberance instead of the constraint and energy of perfectionism.
[2:02] : So, welcome again. If you're joining me, pop into the chat and say hello. Super
[2:08] : excited to have you here with me live. Good morning, Lorraine.
[2:14] : And if you're catching the replay, let me know in the comments below, right? I love knowing that you stopped by. Give
[2:22] : the video a like. If you love what I shared today, please do subscribe. This really helps us keep the channel
[2:28] : growing. It keeps me inspired. and your comments mean the world to me. In fact, Lorine is so good about leaving me
[2:35] : little love notes in the comments. So, I love it when you just drop me a couple
[2:40] : of words and say what you thought about the video. So, thanks for being here. I
[2:46] : am going to turn my screen around and we're going to talk about what we're
[2:52] : going to be doing today and we're going to dive in and play. We may not spend a whole hour. Most of these episodes are
[2:58] : about an hour. You know, it's so easy to create piles of painty papers and then
[3:04] : you start to wonder, well, what do you do with them? So, today we are playing
[3:10] : with acrylic inks. I've got a few different kinds here. I've got the
[3:15] : Daylor Ry brand. I usually try to buy these when they're on sale. And same
[3:21] : with the um this is the Artist Loft, which is the Michaels brand of acrylic
[3:28] : inks. I enjoy working with both. Of course, the the Daylor Brownie are are
[3:34] : quite fabulous. And I picked out a palette. You can see I've got some blues. I've got some yellows. This is a
[3:40] : really dark indigo. I've got a little bit of white. And then my favorite red
[3:46] : earth color. A lot of these have been well used and well loved and they may or may not still
[3:52] : have some juice in them. So, we will see. And I also have a plastic tray.
[3:58] : This isn't necessary, but I tend to get a little painty and messy when I'm using
[4:06] : acrylic inks. And I forgot to grab fabric today. And I was going to paint
[4:12] : up some fabric. So, I may pop off in a minute and go grab some fabric
[4:19] : and uh because it's really fun to use the acrylic inks on fabric. And like last week, I just grabbed a bunch of
[4:27] : different papers. I even grabbed a couple of sheets of this kind of shiny
[4:32] : photo paper to see what the inks might do. I've got just a big stack of just
[4:37] : kind of like plain printer paper. It's called sulfite paper. It's nice for
[4:43] : creating art on. Excuse me, my voice is still warming up this morning.
[4:49] : And I've got some of that heavyduty tissue paper that I talked about last week. So, I have a variety of different
[4:56] : papers to play with and experiment with. And then I grabbed some stencils and a
[5:03] : few different stamps to see what we could maybe create through stencils and
[5:11] : stamps. Good morning, Tori. Glad to see you, my friend. And I grabbed this feather. I picked it up when I was out
[5:16] : on a walk the other day. And I might use it for just moving things around. I do
[5:22] : have a couple of paint brushes, but I'm not sure if uh I'll use any paint brushes today.
[5:29] : When you're playing with acrylic inks, one thing that you need a a lot of is a spray bottle. That's how we're going to
[5:35] : activate the acrylic inks. So, if you're new to them, you're definitely going to want a spray bottle. But, let me go grab
[5:42] : um a little bit of muslin real quick, and I'll be right back. So, hold tight and talk amongst yourselves.
[6:15] : All right, the muslin was further away than I thought it was, so I quickly grabbed I think this is um this is like
[6:22] : duck cloth. It's a heavyweight cotton fabric. And so
[6:28] : you can hear me ripping and shredding here. And I'm just going to cut a couple
[6:33] : of pieces off of this. And we'll talk about the inks work really well on
[6:41] : fabric and these end up being great for making doll clothes, for journal covers
[6:47] : or all kinds of other collage things. This is a little heavy for collage, but
[6:55] : it would be great if I were just making a dress for a paper doll or a
[7:01] : three-dimensional doll. It would be perfect. But mostly I just want to kind of see
[7:07] : how our acrylic inks react.
[7:13] : Okay, I know that's really loud on some fabric. So, I'm going to go ahead and break this up into some smaller pieces
[7:20] : today just to make it a little easier to play with.
[7:27] : And again, I shared at the beginning the thing that I love about acrylic inks. Um
[7:32] : Tori, you'll remember this from the retreat last fall is just they're so
[7:39] : flowy and fluid. If you don't love getting your hands super painty, this is a good one to wear plastic gloves. So,
[7:47] : I'm going to experiment on a piece of photo paper.
[7:52] : Never tried this before. You guys know I love to try things. I don't know if it'll stick, if it'll go through, uh
[7:58] : what it'll do. I'm thinking maybe Okay, I will try
[8:05] : putting Did I bring another small stencil? I grabbed big stencils. Okay, we're just going to try this one.
[8:11] : Putting some of that ink through a stencil and let's just see what happens. And I think so much of the journey. And
[8:20] : you got to really shake your acrylic inks if they've been sitting for a while.
[8:27] : So much of the journey to reconnect to our inner artist is about connecting to
[8:33] : the spirit of play, to kind of that, you know, sort of spirit of wonder
[8:39] : that we often lose for a variety of reasons.
[8:46] : I call this play with a purpose, right? like we're going to create painty papers
[8:52] : that we're going to use, but we're also learning more about our materials. We're
[8:57] : learning more about colors and palettes that we enjoy working with. So, I've got
[9:04] : just a little bit of acrylic ink on here. A little bit goes a long way. And
[9:10] : I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. This may get a
[9:16] : little glary. So, you can watch the magic of how those spread. It's interesting. They're
[9:23] : spreading very nicely here on this photo paper, but they're not flowing a
[9:31] : ton. So, I'm going to come in. And this is so
[9:38] : much just about experimentation. I love the little bloom that's happening
[9:45] : here. A little more water. More water is
[9:51] : better.
[9:58] : Oh, hello and welcome. Thanks for stopping by. I've never done acrylic pore painting. That's one of those
[10:06] : things that uh I didn't want to go down yet another
[10:12] : rabbit hole. So, I've never tried acrylic pores. So, I'm looking at this and this is
[10:17] : really pretty and there's a lot of paint and a lot of water there. So, one of the nice things that you can do with acrylic
[10:24] : ink. So, I'm going to take a piece of that sulfite paper,
[10:30] : and I'm just going to I don't want to smush it too much, but I'm going to gently press that in there. Pull up
[10:39] : some of that color over the top of the stencil. And a Oh my gosh, so beautiful.
[10:48] : Look at that. Won't that be amazing in a collage? Love it. All right, I'm going
[10:53] : to start filling up my floor here with my painty papers. And I'm curious to see
[11:01] : how the acrylic inks will dry on this photo paper.
[11:09] : So, different look and feel there, but still really interesting. I'm going to
[11:15] : set that over there for a second because I know there's still quite a bit of paint here.
[11:22] : on this stencil. So, what happens if we come in
[11:29] : and do I have my little breayer here? There it is. And see, so I'm not wasting
[11:37] : any of that ink. Right. So, in some of these, it's very much like gel printing.
[11:43] : And actually, I love all that color that just came off that stencil. Makes really
[11:49] : fun patterns. And we got a pretty interesting print
[11:56] : there. There wasn't as much of the yellow left as there was before, but
[12:02] : still an interesting page. And again, we can continue.
[12:10] : You guys are sweet. Thank you, Lorraine. To build up the color on this page. Now,
[12:16] : what happens if I don't spray this with water and we just come in here with a
[12:21] : breayer? You can get a completely different look
[12:27] : and feel on the page. When you don't add water to it, the acrylic inks just sit,
[12:34] : right? They just kind of stay put. It really is the water that moves it around
[12:42] : and makes it magic. This paper is pretty thin, which is fine. I'm trying to move
[12:48] : my keyboard and my mouse. My husband always gets mad at me about getting paint all over everything. Hola, Blanca.
[12:55] : Good to see you. Yes, I'm having fun with these colors. Let's try.
[13:04] : Me, too. Is such a magic and mystery. Look at that. When you drop the inks into the water, look at those fabulous
[13:12] : blooms. And these are going to be ones that are going to take a while to dry. I did
[13:18] : bring my craft dryer in case I want to move things around.
[13:24] : And then this does start to look a little more like acrylic pore art. But
[13:30] : you can see I've got some dark spots where I just kind of put that down on the page. One of the things I love about
[13:36] : working with acrylic inks is once they're dry, it's really fun to go back
[13:42] : over the top of them and add designs and patterns with gel pens or paint markers.
[13:53] : I'm going to grab this little piece of cardboard here. There's still a lot of paint on here. So, you can also
[14:01] : stamp with this, right? So, don't be afraid to really experiment. So, that's
[14:07] : left a pattern there. Plus, we've got a little bit of pattern here. This feels
[14:13] : like a first layer. This is getting closer to that end layer.
[14:22] : And this one's kind of losing some of its interest as it all moves together.
[14:28] : You can always just come back with a little more water. I'm going to grab a paper towel
[14:34] : here. And sometimes it's helpful to remove paint as much as it is to add paint. And
[14:45] : like watercolor, some of these things will dry lighter than they went down the
[14:53] : first time. Can use that paper towel as a tool to kind of move that color around. Don't
[15:01] : need a lot of fancy tools here, but this is making me happy. Feels like a really
[15:06] : interesting bloom here. So, we're going to put that one over here to dry.
[15:13] : And we'll play with that one some more. So, the photo paper is drying.
[15:19] : Interesting, right? like I'm getting some different effects and marbling on
[15:25] : the photo paper than I might on some other paper. So, just watching to see
[15:31] : what's happening. Watching it stayed put a little bit more. It didn't move as much, but still really such a beautiful
[15:40] : piece. I can feel that paper is quite wet, although it didn't go through the
[15:46] : paper, which is good to know. So, this was a piece of glossy photo paper that
[15:51] : I'm playing with. And I'm looking going, how much blue and
[15:58] : green and yellow do I want? Maybe it's time to mix up my palette a little bit.
[16:05] : And let's try a piece of fabric. So, the
[16:10] : acrylic inks work really nicely on fabric.
[16:16] : I've got this really old stencil here. Don't ask me where I've got it because I've had had it for so long and it
[16:26] : doesn't quite fit in here. But we're going to figure out how to make that work. And I'm going to come in. This is
[16:31] : one of my most favorite colors, flame orange.
[16:36] : And we're going to just tip that jar up.
[16:42] : That's the end of that one. Boohoo. And maybe just a tiny bit of this indigo
[16:50] : mixed in there. And once we get it wet, I'm going to see if I can figure out how to get that stencil down
[16:58] : in there a little better. And we're going to see what it does on this heavy duty paper. And then maybe
[17:06] : just a little bit of this red earth. Again, these are some of my favorite
[17:11] : colors. Little extra paint there. All right, I'm going to come in with the water. I've never done this on this
[17:18] : heavyweight fabric before. So, we're going to see how well that fabric takes
[17:24] : it. And my sense is I've got a lot on top here. So, let's go over the top.
[17:32] : That'll help me push it down without getting it all over my hands as well. Not that I care about
[17:40] : having painty hands. I'm actually happy having painty hands.
[17:47] : Oh, it's so pretty. Look at that. Magic.
[17:52] : Just magic. This would actually make a really lovely little journal cover. I
[17:57] : can see myself adding some slow stitching to this. So, that one worked
[18:05] : really well. And you just never know what's going to work, right? So, what happened underneath was we got a big fat
[18:13] : old happy mess in here. And I'm not unhappy with the mess either because
[18:20] : this mess is the part that eventually makes the best collage, right? Where the
[18:26] : other one maybe is better for
[18:33] : a complete project. This one is just going to make some pretty happy painty papers.
[18:40] : Soak up some of that water and some of that color in there.
[18:47] : Not much. Good. We got a lot of it out. Oh, but look. Pressing it down. We got some more of that stencil in there,
[18:55] : which looks really, really lovely. I love that. And I'm looking at this and feeling like
[19:02] : the colors are really dark and I want to brighten it up a little. So, I'm just going to come back with just some
[19:09] : little tiny spots. This is pretty wet, but I'll probably still make it even a little wetter and maybe just bring in a
[19:19] : little color. I could probably do that by put some white over those darks as
[19:25] : well. And you can see as soon as I put it down how it's spreading there.
[19:36] : All right, emptying things up for sure. Get those empties out of the way.
[19:44] : And as I'm just being patient and kind of letting it sit, I thought, "Oh, I'm going to have to spray the yellow." But
[19:50] : I can just kind of let it do its own or I can just activate that just a little
[19:56] : bit more.
[20:01] : And we can see this fabric is so thick that water isn't even going all the way
[20:07] : through the fabric. But this has some interesting things happening. The other thing you can do with the acrylic inks
[20:15] : when you've got some of those, you know, little splotches and you think, "Oh, I wish that would move a little bit more."
[20:22] : Don't be afraid to just come in. This is an old pretty roughened brush, you know,
[20:27] : that's been used a lot in acrylic painting.
[20:33] : and just soften it right where that yellow went down. And that makes me a little happier when I'm looking at it to
[20:41] : have those bits and pieces just feel a little
[20:46] : softer.
[20:51] : Yeah, it'll be fun to see what I end up doing with these for sure. All right.
[20:57] : So, let's put that one and or let's look at them side by side. So, that's underneath the stencil. Press the
[21:04] : stencil. Same colors, but two very different effects. This one kind of feels like alen. Um, what do you call
[21:11] : it? Algae and lyken. Like here in Colorado, this is the color of lychen on
[21:16] : the rocks, right? Which feels really beautiful and lovely.
[21:23] : All right. What did I do with that little scrappy bit? So now we have this like really messy scrappy bit and we
[21:29] : want to turn it into something so that nothing gets wasted.
[21:35] : And I'm going to just make sure that I got all the paint off of this one.
[21:42] : Grab another
[21:47] : so that I can set it aside. Right. So, it's good to have just some little pieces around to play with. And
[21:57] : what happens if we come in here and just get part of that stencil?
[22:04] : I'm feeling a little obsessed with this stencil. I have another big one to play with also.
[22:11] : And looking at the colors that I have down there, maybe I'll come in with some of this yellow ochre.
[22:19] : And for me, this is just that sense of fearless play and experimentation
[22:26] : that really helps us fall in love with our art, right? And rather than hoarding
[22:34] : supplies or sitting on supplies, being afraid to use them because we don't
[22:40] : exactly know how to use them, the only way to use them is to dive in, right? to
[22:47] : literally just get in there and make a mess. It's just paint and paper.
[22:53] : Everything is paint overable. Everything is reusable.
[22:58] : So, I got one more piece of fabric here. I'm digging doing this on the fabric,
[23:04] : which I knew I would. And this is not pre-washed. It's like a heavyweight
[23:10] : cotton canvas, kind of like a duck cloth. And normally I would wash this
[23:15] : ahead of time. Just makes that ink adhere better. Acrylic inks will dry
[23:23] : permanent. So you can see that pattern coming through already. So these are
[23:30] : great because they can be washed. If you're using fabric, they can be
[23:36] : stitched on. You could paint over the the top of them more. So, another just
[23:41] : lovely piece to add to our growing collection.
[23:48] : And then let's see what happened. So, again, just super super cool. Okay, I'm
[23:54] : going to stick that underneath. Let it get itself cleaned off.
[24:01] : And I'm paying attention to a few things, to the patterns, to the colors,
[24:06] : but I'm also uh paying attention to what draws my eye, right? What is it that I
[24:12] : like? Which part of the process did I enjoy? What feels playful? What maybe
[24:18] : makes my shoulders, you know, go up a little bit. Um, this was a funny piece
[24:24] : of poster board. I don't even know what it was from, right? And that shiny
[24:30] : paper, the ink stays put differently, which is really cool.
[24:35] : All right, my floor over here is definitely filling up.
[24:45] : Just going to clean this off a little bit. And I'm going to end up with this beautiful under paper as well, which
[24:52] : will also make for great collage. And I'm going to set that one aside.
[25:00] : I love even my tray is getting nice and inky. So, I'm really curious
[25:08] : about using this artist weight heavyduty tissue paper
[25:15] : with the acrylic inks. My intuition is that the ink is going to go right
[25:22] : through the paper and uh get both sides really wet. But
[25:29] : we'll see what happens. So, I'm going to do one that's just color and then we'll
[25:34] : try again with a different stencil.
[25:40] : Like I said, we probably won't go a full hour today. Just noticing that, you
[25:46] : know, I don't know how exciting it is to watch me do an hour of play, but I could
[25:52] : probably sit here for three or four hours and have a lot of fun with this.
[26:00] : Let's see. Oh, interesting. Okay. Was being drawn to this
[26:06] : sort of pinky color. It's called vivid violet.
[26:16] : and we'll see what happens when we mix all of these colors together. Thanks,
[26:22] : Tori. I appreciate you.
[26:30] : Okay, this is like a more simple classic use of acrylic ink. Me too, Blanca. I'm
[26:39] : looking forward to a weekend ahead where I don't have anything on my schedule except for a couple of playdates with
[26:46] : girlfriends to do some play. So, this makes me really happy just as it is. And
[26:52] : when this dries, this is going to be marvelous. So,
[26:58] : let's see what the integrity of that is like. Definitely, it's that water went
[27:04] : right through the other side. So, I'm going to actually pull this piece of paper and put it on the floor. And so, I
[27:12] : can move this out of here.
[27:18] : Not that my floor doesn't have paint all over it already, but when I pull it up,
[27:24] : look at that. It feels much more sort of tie-dyed. And I think this one's going to be really interesting when it dries.
[27:35] : And look at that magic that's happening in there. So, this was a inexpensive
[27:42] : plastic tray that I found on Amazon. I think they came in sets of three and
[27:47] : I've been having fun using it for all kinds of things. So, what if we used it for printing
[27:55] : the paper instead of putting the ink on the paper? So, again,
[28:01] : an experiment. I haven't tried this. I'm going to do one more piece of this
[28:06] : paper. I'm going to do it pretty fast
[28:12] : so maybe I don't get it quite as wet. So, we get a completely different but
[28:18] : still very interesting look. Again, these are going to be magic with that
[28:24] : transparency when they dry. But I don't really love the way the the
[28:30] : water is going through them and they're getting so so wet. We'll see if it
[28:35] : sticks to the underper getting my hands all painty which makes me happy.
[28:41] : And we still have all this lovely. We'll bring back. Okay, this feels
[28:47] : really fun. A little sort of print making. very different than just putting the ink
[28:54] : down right on to the paper.
[29:00] : This is definitely uh lack of control here. Don't know what's going to happen.
[29:09] : Just add a little bit more water in there. And now I'm going to
[29:17] : put a stencil down. and see if we can pick up color through
[29:25] : the stencil. Definitely want to get some more
[29:30] : paint down on some of this sulfite paper because I love this sulfite paper. I
[29:35] : just buy this on Amazon and like packs of 500. Very inexpensive. It's nicer
[29:42] : than printer paper and thin enough to make great collage.
[29:50] : So, I'm not seeing paint coming through here. So, that stencil may be too old
[29:56] : and too thick. Totally. That did not work at all. Interesting. But what's
[30:01] : going to happen is when I pull this up, that's going to be interesting.
[30:07] : But we're going to have some paint on this stencil itself. Looks like it picked up some of the color. So, I'm
[30:14] : just going to put that piece of paper right back down on there.
[30:22] : Lack of control is so freeing. So freeing. So one of the things that I do
[30:29] : and Tori is a member is my sisterhood of wisdom and wonder which you can find on
[30:35] : my website at manetryarden.com. And yesterday we were painting trees.
[30:40] : And I think the number one comment was that just that same that freedom of
[30:46] : letting go and learning to paint like a kindergartener.
[30:52] : All right. Didn't get a ton of paint, but got some really interesting. So, this is where we start to look at little
[31:00] : bits and pieces of this. And I have some options. I could spray this with some paint. I can let it dry. and maybe add
[31:08] : another layer, which is what I'm leaning towards. Still didn't work quite like I
[31:14] : want it to. So, I'm going to try that again, but I'm going to get a little more
[31:20] : water in here. And I'm going to be even a little
[31:26] : more intentional about getting this whole stencil colored up.
[31:36] : And I'm being mindful of like how much can I do this before I just end up with
[31:41] : mud.
[31:47] : Try it again. I love this stencil.
[32:04] : You can see how painty my hands are.
[32:10] : Little better coverage that time. A little few more purples. I can see how those colors are starting to blend and
[32:17] : flow. So, that feels really pretty. And I'm loving the colors.
[32:24] : And we're just gonna clean this off here. You can tell I don't clean my
[32:30] : stencils. Like it's just not necessary, but I do tend to, you know, wipe some of
[32:36] : that paint off. Set that one aside. Okay, look at that magic in there.
[32:44] : So, this is another sheet of that photo paper.
[32:50] : And let's see.
[32:57] : Get some more of those fun blooms happening in there.
[33:06] : This is kind of like doing a roar shock, right? Oh, that's on that photo paper.
[33:12] : Look at that. Really magical. And it's drying really fast on that
[33:18] : photo paper. So interesting. So, I'm going to stick that down and just get a
[33:24] : little more right in the center. And I can see where I'm starting to get
[33:31] : some browns in there. I kind of like the white in the center, but it's
[33:37] : interesting for that the way it mix. There's no pink
[33:44] : over here. So, let's just turn this around the other way.
[33:50] : and get a little of these other colors in here.
[33:56] : Okay, I'm digging the reaction of the photo paper dipped in there. Getting
[34:02] : just some magic sort of tie-dye effect happening here.
[34:10] : That is fun.
[34:15] : And we're going to just kind of clean this up. Kind of like you do when you're working with a gel plate where you get
[34:22] : to a point where you got to clean your gel plate. I'm going to clean this up a
[34:27] : little bit. Part of me just wants to not do any paper and just do all that
[34:35] : luscious fabric because I love how it turned out. Oh, look. It's a landscape.
[34:40] : Look at that. Fascinating. I've got my mountain there. I've got some trees. Maybe a nice little
[34:46] : pond here. Like, this is the magic of learning to see, learning to play,
[34:52] : learning to experiment with our supplies and materials.
[34:59] : And now I have a very messy studio. So, I think I'm going to clean this up
[35:07] : and go back to working on paper a little bit. So, I'm going to start with that
[35:15] : paper towel is starting to dry in there, you know,
[35:22] : and there was already paint in here as well, too. But because it's
[35:29] : a waterbased thing, as soon as I spray water on it, it'll reactivate.
[35:35] : Little baby wipe action there. Not perfectly clean.
[35:42] : And I'm doing this in a small space, but I actually really love um doing this on
[35:48] : really large sheets of paper. It works really well to cover up large areas.
[35:56] : Let's see. Let's come in with some of this indigo.
[36:06] : Maybe some of this yellow ochre.
[36:14] : And what happens when these two start to blend? That indigo looks black when you
[36:20] : start. So, I can see there's some chunks of that ochre in there where the
[36:26] : sediment was in the bottom of the page. And this is where we can start to play
[36:32] : with it a little bit. I've got a little fan brush here. Maybe I want to move
[36:38] : some of that color around.
[36:47] : Oh, now it feels like a dragon. This indigo I love because it's so much
[36:53] : fun to draw, add zenangle patterns to over the the end. And I'm noticing, you
[37:01] : know, these sort of chunky bits of the that yellow ochre needs some maybe some
[37:08] : water added or to get shaken up a little bit. And what happens? Yeah, me too. Loving
[37:15] : this combination. If we just put a little bit of white.
[37:22] : Let's see if we can get just a little bit of white. Maybe way down in the bottom down there. There we go.
[37:36] : And they start to look like agots as they spread and grow.
[37:48] : I don't know what those bubbles will do, but it'll be fun to sort of discover that.
[37:56] : Okay, so this one feels really interesting. And I think I need to just like let it
[38:04] : do its own thing and see what happens when it dries and what the effects are.
[38:13] : You saw a beagle. Fun. It's probably gone now. Good morning, Ann. Good to see you.
[38:20] : All right. They're all just different and
[38:25] : interesting. And then when I pick them up, the paint moves and it changed yet
[38:31] : again. So, this time I'm going to grab my tray
[38:38] : here.
[38:43] : And I'm going to grab just a piece of paper to play with. I'll zoom out a
[38:49] : little bit for this one so we can see both and play with some of these stamps that I have and see what happens with
[38:58] : the stamps.
[39:03] : And I'm going to be using some of my handmade stamps.
[39:12] : 's feeling a little it's got a little bubbles stuck in the top that don't want to pop.
[39:19] : This one's definitely getting down to the end. Okay, now we're really getting painty
[39:25] : fingers. I even put an apron on this morning because I knew I was going to make a big happy mess. So, we should get
[39:32] : some lovely purples out of this one.
[39:38] : This paper here that I'm using right now, Ann, is a sulfite paper. Um, you
[39:44] : can buy it on Amazon. I'm sure that Dick Blick has it, too. You can get it in stacks of 500. Little nicer. It's 9
[39:52] : by12, and it's a little nicer than a um just a printer paper, but it's thin
[39:59] : enough to make great collage. So, let's see what kind of magic. You
[40:07] : can never have too many collage papers with dots on them. Just saying. So,
[40:14] : maybe we'll just fill this page with dots. So, this is working well. It's nice and
[40:21] : juicy. So, the dots are coming out in all those beautiful colors, and they
[40:28] : aren't perfect, which is what I want when I'm stamping. So, I think I'm going
[40:33] : to fill this one. We'll get some that maybe have a little
[40:38] : less ink on them because it just creates
[40:44] : Yeah. Somewhere on the channel, Blanca, I think when we first got started a couple of years ago, we made the stamps.
[40:51] : I don't know if you remember doing that, but we made our own. These are just made out of fun foam. Love making my own
[40:59] : stamps. Okay, that is a very very happy piece of paper. This is the kind
[41:05] : of stuff that makes such fabulous collage for our doll making and
[41:10] : definitely for art journal play as well.
[41:17] : Do I have another I wish I had brought more of that photo paper over. Okay, this is really fun. And I'm trying to
[41:23] : decide, do I want to do more with this or just uh keep the paper as it is
[41:31] : because it's really interesting. This one also will make fabulous collage.
[41:39] : And I'm being I'm lifting this one carefully because I don't want too much flow because I really love the the
[41:44] : patterns that are there. And let's try we'll do one more.
[41:54] : Maybe we'll try some stamping on some of this tissue. I've got a couple of layers of the tissue here. I'm going to clean
[42:02] : that stencil. Get all of that ink off of there. Oh, those are kind of fun, too.
[42:08] : Might go over them with something else. All right. Where's my I'm loving this
[42:16] : super bright yellow today. Happy happy colors,
[42:28] : but I want things to kind of maybe feel like the same family.
[42:36] : So, I could use this pinky purple one with this one because it's the same
[42:41] : blue. So, I'm creating a little consistency and congruence across the pages.
[42:51] : And these two together are going to make an exquisite green.
[42:56] : So, lots of water. I'm glad I decided to use the tray.
[43:04] : Although, don't tell Brad I'm also getting water on my keyboard,
[43:10] : which is probably not a good thing. Usually, when I'm using something messy like this, I try to tuck my keyboard
[43:17] : away. So, let me tuck that away a little bit more. And got popped up windows. Get rid of
[43:26] : those windows. Go away. All right. Interesting. So, I lost some
[43:32] : of the blue in there because that yellow kind of mixed. So, I'm going to come in with maybe a little
[43:40] : different blue here. Still getting lots of pretty magic
[43:47] : happening. And I'm going to come in with some of these spirals.
[43:54] : Love spirals. Can never have too many spirals. So,
[43:59] : this one, the second and third prints are better with a little bit less paint
[44:04] : on them. And I'm getting some fun things happening in here as well. And this is a
[44:14] : better approach I think to this tissue paper rather than completely soaking it
[44:19] : with water is to um do it on paper
[44:25] : or to do the stamping or through a stencil.
[44:31] : And let's get some more of those.
[44:37] : Maybe some more dots in between. I'm just going to make a big happy mess
[44:44] : here. And again, it just creates, we're looking for these to be just abstract
[44:49] : and lots of fun visual interest. So, this doesn't need to be perfect, but
[44:56] : what this is going to give me is some little pieces of collage paper that I'm
[45:01] : going to be like, "Oh, that little piece." And oh, you know, little viewfinder there. Let's look at the
[45:06] : little pieces of this.
[45:11] : And I wonder if we can do this stamping
[45:17] : technique on our fabric. So, let me snip another piece of fabric here.
[45:29] : Shredding fabric is so satisfying. I'm not really sure what the fabric is.
[45:35] : I can't remember what I bought. I bought it on clearance at Jo-Ann's when Jo-Ann's was going out of business,
[45:43] : sadly. Okay, let's do that.
[45:59] : And you notice I didn't bring like my I have a huge selection of stencils as I'm sure many of you do. It's like we don't
[46:06] : need to play with all of them. Some repetition is good. So, I actually
[46:11] : really like how that came out. Just that little bit of color and a little bit of
[46:17] : suggestion of that leafy stencil, but it's telling me this isn't as wet as I
[46:24] : thought this was. So, we're just going to add a little more water to that.
[46:31] : We're going to do the reverse on here.
[46:42] : Lovely. So, the stenciling or stamping on here worked really well. Also, so
[46:51] : that's a gorgeous piece by itself right there. See if we can maybe put some of these
[46:59] : polka dots down at the end. It's funny, the yellow is kind of all
[47:06] : dried up. So, super fun piece. Again, just imagine this wrapped around the
[47:11] : edge of a journal or as the even the background for a tag for one of our
[47:19] : paper dolls. So, this one definitely feels like we're just gonna
[47:25] : go for it in here and maybe get just a little more color on it. use up some of the paint on the
[47:34] : paper. I'm wanting it to have more yellow. And
[47:39] : so what I'm noticing is it looks wet, but the yellow in my
[47:45] : tray here is dry. So, I'm just gonna come right back into this piece
[47:58] : and maybe add a little bit of yellow in there.
[48:04] : Get that nice and wet. And then we'll just set that aside to dry. So, definitely a fun piece to do something
[48:11] : with. Okay, I'm digging the fabric today even more than the peepers.
[48:18] : So, you can see where I pressed the stencil in there that I got some interesting patterns where it was kind
[48:25] : of almost dry. And I'm wondering if I can do that and pull up pull some of the
[48:32] : paint out so we get kind of that reverse
[48:37] : stencil effect in there. We'll see what happens when that dries.
[48:44] : If we keep some of that wonderful marks in there or not.
[48:52] : Haven't used that fun one. That should do some interesting things.
[48:58] : All right. So, this one when I pick it up, it should stay pretty put because it's pretty dry. But this one again is
[49:06] : just these, you know, you start to look at like that right there. or this little
[49:11] : bit of leaves, right? And we start to look at those little pieces and elements.
[49:18] : And this is where I'm like, I don't want to stop making, but I have, you know, a
[49:25] : dozen sheets on the floor over here. So, this is one of the ones that I made
[49:32] : at the beginning that is starting to dry well. So now you can see you get a
[49:38] : lovely watercolor look from doing this, but because it's acrylic ink, it dries
[49:46] : permanent. So this one is definitely one of my favorites. There's quite a few
[49:51] : over here that once they dry are going to be super super cool.
[49:58] : And I think I'll pause there because like I said, I feel like I have now this huge stash of painty papers. But I think
[50:07] : my favorites for today were definitely coming into
[50:13] : play with these fabrics that will definitely get morphed and changed
[50:23] : into something else. maybe for a threedimensional doll or a journal
[50:29] : cover. But loving this sort of, you know, heavy sort of canvasy cotton ended
[50:37] : up working really well on the colors. And then also found that I really loved
[50:45] : the photo paper and how it dried and it moved very very differently on that
[50:52] : photo paper than it did on some of the other bits and pieces.
[51:00] : And then some of the ones, oops, these are getting all over each other because
[51:06] : this one is still really wet. you know, some of these with just those different
[51:11] : colors, right? And letting that abstract look at those drips and drops from where
[51:17] : I moved it when these dry. They're going to be so magical. Huh. I wish I could
[51:24] : stay for another hour or two. Busy, busy day uh ahead. So, I love starting my day
[51:32] : here with all of you and starting it off with some play, especially when I get my
[51:39] : hands all happy painty. So, thanks everybody for joining me for another
[51:45] : episode of Painting in Your PJs with Manette. appreciate each and every one
[51:51] : of you and I will see you guys all live next week where we're going to create
[51:57] : painty papers with watercolor or water soluble materials. Haven't quite figured
[52:04] : out exactly what I want to do next week. But you know me, by the time uh Thursday rolls around, I will have it figured
[52:11] : out. So, have a beautiful rest of your day, my friends. Got to find my mouse here. And thank you for joining me live.
[52:18] : Thank you for watching the replay and uh I look forward to seeing you soon. Have
[52:23] : a great great day. Bye everybody.
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