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Go Your Own Way: Using Stamps, Stencils, and Masks

Go Your Own Way: Using Stamps, Stencils, and Masks

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Gather up your handmade stamps, stencils and masks from our last post  and use them to make this fun fish painting.

completed paint project

 

Supplies:

Canvas or canvas board (I’m using 12 x 24 in canvas board)
Gesso
Brayer
Stencil sponge or triangular make-up sponges
Deli or tissue paper
Gel medium or decoupage glue
Word stencil (“go your own way”)
Chunky foam fish stamps
Lino block fish stamp
Fish masks
Acrylic paint (blue-green, grey, yellow-green, red-violet, orange, black)
Brushes
Fish collage images

fish stencils
carved stamp
chunky foam stamps
temporary masks

Step 1

Apply a heavy coat of gesso to your canvas board.  Stamp into the gesso using the chunky fish stamps.  When the gesso is dry, use the same chunky stamps along with thin gray paint to stamp additional fish images.

stamp with chunky stamps

paint with chunky stamps

 

Step 2

Lay fish masks on your canvas and paint around the masks using blue-green paint.

paint around masks

paint and masks

 

Step 3

Stencil fish using red-violet, yellow-green and orange paint.

paint with fish stencils

paint with fish stencils

 

Step 4

Using lino block, stamp with dark purple paint onto deli or tissue paper.

print on deli paper

 

Step 5

Cut out stamped images and glue to canvas board with gel medium or decoupage glue.

apply stamped images to painting

 

Step 6

Cut out one fish collage image and glue to canvas using gel medium.  Stencil words using dark blue-green paint.

add fish collage

 

Step 7

Shade around some of the fish images using black paint.  Paint the edges of the canvas board black.

project image

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