Creating A Life Less Ordinary Through Art / arty tutorials - mixed media

Don't question my sanity until you have eaten my crayons!

ha ha ha 🤣  I don't recommend eating crayons, they taste awful 😂 lol Crayons are much better used for colouring or melting cheap ones to make encaustic art or those cool drippy waxy artworks.

This tutorial uses the most colourful of crayons, Dina Wakley MEdia Neon Scribble Sticks, together with Sharpie paint pens, Dylusions acrylic paint, masks and Dina's Transparencies to create a floral neon rainbow journal page.

Read on to find out how...

This has to be the pinkest artwork I've created for many years! Usually I opt for greens but I guess sometimes we need a change. I made it for an art journal swap with the theme "Stuff and Nonsense".

I've decided I really need to do something with the fabulous journal I started at Dyan Reaveley's workshop once upon a time in a September! Given that most of the pages are covered in paint and ink already, the hard work of choosing a colour combo is done.