Exercise to Painting

To get started in the New Year, I thought it would be fun to do an abstract exercise. I had a watercolor base that needed some excitement so I gessoed on some tissue paper and applied some acrylics when it dried. I was working from Mary Todd Beam's book "Celebrate Your Creative Self"

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Next I added some layers with watercolors and acrylics and a few markings with an acrylic paint pen

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