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Dear Wonderful, Creative You:<\/p>\n
I have been enjoying illustrating with paint blobs\u00a0so much, I’m super excited to share it with you. Over the last year or so, I’ve been exploring a lot of the possibilities of high flow liquid acrylic paint<\/a>. I never realized what a world of creative\u00a0fun I was missing before these came into my life.<\/strong> They drip, they smudge, they create washes, they make fun shapes when you blow on them, and they mix together in beautiful, unexpected ways. This is some of the most fun\u00a0creative self-care I do!<\/p>\n I’m also excited to explain how this idea came together, because it’s a great example of taking bits of this and that from other artists, and putting it together in your own way,<\/strong> much like Austin Kleon describes in Steal Like an Artist<\/a>. We have so much room to inspire each other and grow together creatively.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [bctt tweet=”Art journaling is about getting messy, letting loose, and allowing your imagination out to play. #calledtobecreative” username=”amymaricle”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was introduced to this idea of taking a “blob” and turning it into an animal or a creature in a wonderful tutorial from Carla Sonheim.<\/strong> She makes “blobimals<\/a>,” that are so fun and fanciful. As I played with this, I also noticed that my artist pal, Roxanne Coble<\/a>,\u00a0seemed to\u00a0sometimes\u00a0paint forms or silhouettes, and then use gel pens to create depth and detail. \u00a0Viktoria Astrom<\/a>, a stamp cutter and illustrator who I found on Instagram, does amazingly expressive animal stamps full of texture and detail. The process I’m teaching you here is the amalgam of all these artistic approaches and styles.<\/strong><\/p>\n Isn’t that fun?<\/p>\n