Daily Paper Prompt #7: Leftovers
Tue, August 7, 2012 at 01:31AM 
3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, diluted
The Daily Paper Prompt today is to use the leftover paint from an art journal page or painting to create abstract art. I created these fun index cards as I sort of multi-tasked. I was painting a canvas as part of Flora's workshop, and the paints ran down the canvas onto a plastic dropcloth. Spying the stack of index cards nearby, I pressed the index cards onto the blobs of diluted paint. They were very watery, so they created a translucent effect. So you can grab the drips of another project, press your paper onto a wet journal page, clean your brush or brayer on a new page and use that for journal fodder on a future page. It's a never-ending circle of paint!
Please pop back and add a link to your artwork for this prompt. You can link directly to a photo at flickr or to a blog post {links to the home page of your blog will be deleted}.
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Reader Comments (5)
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." --Ehrlich
See my intelligent tinkering with leftover paper at our flickr group: Cheryl4067.
I used left over bits of newspaper, envelopes, and subscription cards from magazines :) I'm really pleased with it! Thank you again :) http://stitchnmaille.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/daisy-yellows-dpp-7-and-the-beginning-of-my-wallpaper-journal/
I love to do this too ! It satisfies my hate-to-waste-colors needs and also magics together mixes I'd never normally go with. Great post :)
mine is mists rather than paint, but YES! i do this all the time and i'm psyched to hear that other ppl do it, too!
(sometimes i actually find the blotting up or the stencil-wiping page comes out MORE INTERESTINGLY than the thing i actually set out to make does! chalk another one up for serendipity, eh?!) ♥
I am giving the Flickr thing a go. I think I have it organised right and linked each of the 2, #6 and #7 I have just uploaded. It's funny, I sort of forgot all about Flickr the past 6 months, mayBE even longer ?! but it sure is fun to get back to it and actually feel like I understand a thing or two!!