Jens Joint: Playing With Texture

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Playing With Texture

Hi everyone!

So on my stream today I played around with a technique using texture pastes mixed with various elements. I watched Janet's stream where she played around with the same technique creating backgrounds for use as journal covers.

I took some watercolour paper cut to 5 1/2" x 8" along with a couple of #8 shipping tags and just played.

For the first background I applied a thick coat of texture paste and pressed in some cheesecloth, then I randomly applied the same texture paste over the cheesecloth so that it wasn't too dimensional. I then brushed on some pearl turquoise acrylic paint followed by dripping some phthalo green ink and finished it off with some bavarian blue Magicals. It turned out very pretty I thought.

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Products used:

Chromacryl texture paste
Cheesecloth
Jacquard | Lumiere 'pearl turquoise' acrylic paint
Liquitex Professional 'phthalo green' ink
Lindy's Stamp Gang 'bavarian blue' Magicals

For the second piece of watercolour paper I applied Ranger's opaque crackle texture paste and added torn strips of toilet paper into the paste.

I then base coated it all (once dry) with a gold acrylic paint mixed with glazing medium.

Finally I added 'walnut stain' and 'vintage photo' distress reinkers and I absolutely love the colours of this one. I'm thinking I might sand it down and add a coat or two of matte medium over it all and will definitely use this one for the front cover of a journal.

Products used:

Ranger Opaque Crackle Texture Paste
Toilet paper
Brea Reese 'gold' acrylic paint
Liquitex Glazing Medium
Tim Holtz 'walnut stain' distress ink reinker
Tim Holtz 'vintage photo' distress ink reinker

For the third test I took a piece of watercolour paper cut to the size of a #8 shipping tag and applied the opaque crackle texture paste fairly thickly.

I then decided to press in a metal embossing piece into the paste for dimension only as I didn't think the design would show up too clearly.

Once dried I applied a coat of 'raw sienna' acrylic paint over the entire piece of paper.

I then decided to drip some ink onto the piece and used 'indian yellow' and 'phthalo green' inks. I couldn't stop there so I then added some 'magical mai tai' Magicals and dripped some 'walnut stain' distress ink.

I finished it off by applying some 'turquoise' Inca Gold over the high points.

I really love how the Ranger crackle paste works! There are small and large cracks all over the paper!

Products used:

Ranger Opaque Crackle Texture Paste
Nellie Snellen |KARS & Co 'wonderful nature' metal embossing shape
Semco 'raw sienna' acrylic paint
Liquitex Glazing Medium
Daler Rowney | FW 'Indian Yellow' acrylic ink
Liquitex Professional 'phthalo green' ink
Lindy's Stamp Gang 'magical mai tai' Flat Magicals
Tim Holtz 'walnut stain' distress ink reinker
Viva | Inka Gold 'turquoise' metal glass paint

I took another piece of watercolour paper cut to the size of a #8 shipping tag and covered it with light paste and inserted the metal embossing piece.

I then sprinkled over sea salt crystals and set aside to dry.

Once dry I painted some halbein yellow deep watercolour paint all over the background. Once this coat of paint was dry I brushed off all the salt crystals and you can see where every single salt crystal was! It is an amazingly simple texture technique that I love!

I sprayed some 'fully purple' Glimmer Mist over the paper then some 'phthalo green' ink and finally some 'bovarian blue' Magicals.

I'm not a huge fan of the mix of colours here but really love those salt 'indentations'.

Products used:

Art Basics | Finnabair Light Paste
Sea Salt crystals
'Halbein Yellow Deep' tube watercolour paint
Tattered Angels 'fully purple' Glimmer Mist
Liquitex Professional 'phthalo green' ink
Lindy's Stamp Gang 'bovarian blue' Magicals

I did apply some of the opaque crackle paste onto another piece of 5 1/2" x 8" cardstock and applied some heavy gesso to a piece of watercolour paper cut to the size of a #8 shipping tag and inserted the metal embossing piece, but have yet to colour these. I thought I would show you what they look like before working on them anyway.