February 24, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
Technique Tuesday!
Get out your paints, if you didn’t already do it yesterday, and let’s get started! A world of beautiful one-off backgrounds awaits you 
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Wow, these are just gorgeous! Do you have to use glossy or any cardstock? Kathy Eddy
Thank you, Kathy! No glossy stock at all…just matte textured watercolor paper. The acrylics are sort of naturally glossy unless you mix them with matte acrylic medium
Oh, BTW, you can use cardstock instead of watercolor paper if you want to, but I think that matte would probably pick up the paint a bit better.
Why of course! I always wondered why do the monoprinting rather than just straight onto the paper but being able to manuever the paint around on a non-porous, slick surface now makes so much sense. Thanks for the logic behind it.
*Exactly* what I couldn’t figure out at first! Then when I saw what the point was, it was an “a-ha” moment
I was looking for a monoprint tutorial. Thanks so much, Cyndi!
Serendipity!! Don’t you just love it when that happens?
What cool techniques!! Thanks Cyndi. In both cases, I like the last prints. The colors get so muted – perfect for a background scrapbook page. And what fun! Like finger painting as a child.
These are gorgeous, as Kathy said. I especially like the “wavy” surfaces of your second batch. Thanks for reminding us that you don’t have to get really complicated to have very satisfying results,
Eileen and Carol, thanks! I can’t wait to experiment with some different textured surfaces
My daughter and I just worked on some prints and love it. Thanks for sharing your idea and contributing your post to my craft craft carnival!
I’m so glad you found it fun! And thanks so much for including my tutorial in your carnival…you’ve got a lot of really good links there
Looks like such a fun project. I love the way you mixes colors – so beautiful. Can’t wait to try it. The only problem is that I would probably get addicted to it.
I will simply *not* be held responsible for results such as sleepless nights spent fantasizing about all the possibilities… LOL!
Thanks Coco!