Description
Jump right into your art with Rae Missigman’s quick and easy background techniques! In this video workshop, Rae shares her clever strategies for putting down three wildly different paint colors with just one brush–no brush cleaning required! After creating a series of these foundations, you’ll embark on a layering process full of fun and easy-to-follow techniques, including stamping, using custom stickers (made with your own artwork!), and stenciling for interest and texture. Rae demonstrates how to use masking fluid and acrylic paint to create areas of highlight, shadow, and resist, and finally shows you how to bring the pieces together by creating focal points and adding your own signature marks!
In this video you will:
- Create 2 small abstract paintings from start to finish.
- Learn to paint colorful, no-mud backgrounds using a unique blending technique.
- Develop focal points from abstract marks.
- Experiment with a variety of mark-making tools, including paint pens and markers.
Video Preview:
Materials List:
- Surface
- Poster board (other options include art journal, Bristol paper, mixed-media paper, or canvas)
- Media
- Assorted acrylic paints – including heavy body, soft body, and fluid
- Assorted art journaling pens including black and white, gel and permanent
- China Markers – including black and white
- Derwent Inktense blocks (optional)
- Gel medium or glue stick
- Masking fluid or rubber cement
- Paint markers
- Portfolio oil pastels (optional)
- Stabilo Marks-All pencil (can be used wet)
- White gloss craft paint
- Other Tools and Materials
- Collage paper
- Makeup wedges
- Paintbrushes
- Palette knife
- Palette paper
- Paper towers or old rag
- Pencil
- Rubber eraser pickup
- Scissors
- Scraper or old gift card
- Spray bottle of water
- Stamps
- Staz-On permanent ink pad
- Stencils or masks
- Water brush (optional)
- Your art printed on white shipping labels
About the Artist
Rae Missigman is a self-taught mixed-media artist who loves to create, blog, and instruct. She has a fondness for both pattern and color, which has led her to create outside the lines, resulting in artwork that is both busy and polychromatic. Rae offers both online and in-person classes. She is a designer for StencilGirl Products and designs her own stamps. You can find Rae’s work in numerous art publications including Cloth Paper Scissors, as well as on her website, RaeMissigman.com.
Artists Network Membership - 1 Month
Paint Along 119: The Art of Painting Still Lifes
Breakthrough Paint Along: How to Paint Miniature Landscapes in Oils
The Whimsical Face with Jane Davenport Video Download
Breakthrough Paint Along: Essentials of Painting Portraits
Paint Along 120: Capturing the Colors of Dusk and Dawn
Southwest Art February/March 2025 Digital Edition
Watercolor Artist Spring 2025 Digital Edition
Paint Along 122: Animate Your Wildlife with Every Brushstroke
Southwest Art December 2024/January 2025 Print Edition
Pastel Journal Winter 2025 Print Edition
Portraits: From Good to Great Video Download
Experimental Pastel Techniques with Dawn Emerson Video Download
Essentials of Painting Still Lifes
Artists Magazine January/February 2025 Digital Edition
Pastel Journal Winter 2025 Digital Edition
The Best of Drawing: Strokes of Genius 16 Competition Winners Digital Edition
Southwest Art October/November 2024 Digital Edition
Best of Acrylic: Winners of the AcrylicWorks 11 Competition Digital Edition
Artists Magazine 2022 Digital Collection × 1
Pastel Journal 2022 Digital Collection × 1
Watercolor Artist 2020 Digital Collection × 1
Pastel Journal 2019 Annual Digital Collection × 1
Urban Sketching: Drawing People in Places Video Workbook 
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.