Digital Scrapbooking and Photography for beginners

A great link to a lot of info

http://www.scrapbookdesignplus.com/2011/10/12/digital-layout-basics/

Watercolor with two colors

Video - One Sheet Wonder to make cards

Texturing a canvas before painting video

Stretch or rip cheesecloth... apply to canvas with gesso

Tear tissue paper and glue it down with white gesso.. put tissue underneath and on top to get wrinkles.

Put a stencil (one without a design - use all or just parts of the stencil) down and either use gesso to get texture or modeling paste applied with spackling knife.... just go for random texture

Can use free form spackling ... do edges

Get all air bubbles out of paper



Put Gesso in a squeeze bottle and drizzle on canvas

use lids

stamps
can use random spackling or modeling paste

Painting a soft acrylic mottled background

It's important to use an acrylic extender, not water to move the paint

Abstract with house

How to make your own non-representational art

http://ohhappyday.com/2011/07/how-to-make-abstract-art/

Petesoriginalart.com