Today I'm hosting my friend Traci Bautista's online book tour for her fabulous book Doodles Unleashed. Traci and I have been colleagues in the mixed media world for nearly ten years and I've enjoyed visiting with her yearly at CHA and catching up with her online. Love, love, love her first book Collage Unleashed and this new book is a must have for any art library.
Traci and I both LOVE to use resist techniques in our artwork and she has some wonderfully inspiring art techniques using resist and stencils in the book. Below Traci shares some images and info about using her product Collage Pauge for resist.
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In Doodles Unleashed, I share a few techniques using Collage Pauge in other ways than an adhesive, one of my favorite painting techniques is to use it as a resist. It is applied with a brush or applicator tipped bottle to draw and paint designs on the page, once it’s dry I paint over it with acrylic or watercolor to reveal the design. Additional variations include adding glitter, mica or foil for added texture and sparkle. Here are a few examples...
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TUTORIAL
In honor of Traci's awesome book, I've put together a fun tutorial sharing a unique stencil resist technique I've discovered. Go on over to her blog to check it out, I call it Krylon Foil Resist.
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FOIL and STICKY2 GIVE AWAY
My wonderful licensing partner, Creative Imaginations has generously donated a few packs of Ocean Foil and Sticky2's for me to give away on my blog in celebration of Traci's book. Here is a link so you can see how amazingly easy and fun these Foils and Sticky2's are to use. I've also posted a photo below.
All you have to do is tell me what your favorite time to doodle is. Mine is pretty typical, when I'm on the phone:-). Leave your answer in the comments below and I'll pick a couple of names and announce this weekend.
Head on over to Traci's etsy shop to purchase a signed copy of Doodles Unleashed and also don't forget to hop over to her blog to see more of her art and also catch my free tutorial. You are going to LOVE this book.
EDITED 3/4/12
The winners of my Doodle's Unleashed Foil giveaway, chosen at random:
My favorite time to doodle is while enjoying a coffee at Starbucks.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: JJ | February 28, 2012 at 05:48 AM
I love to doodle while watching television. And! I can totally pay attention to both! :)
Posted by: Sarah Martin | February 28, 2012 at 08:07 AM
I can doodle almost anytime I feel the urge. Thanks for the tutorial going try that.
Posted by: Linda Hartzig | February 28, 2012 at 08:32 AM
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I've never thought to try Collage Pauge with foils! I doodle while watching TV. Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: Kristina | February 28, 2012 at 08:40 AM
I doodle during staff meetings - ha ha, how cliche is that?
Thank you for the giveaway!
Posted by: Iris | February 28, 2012 at 09:09 AM
I have 30 min of peace between coming home from work and my kids arrive home from school. This is when I doodle.
Posted by: Sandy Zeboski | February 28, 2012 at 09:21 AM
I have a chronic illness and I love to doodle when I need to lower my stress levels or distract myself from pain.
Posted by: Cynthia H | February 28, 2012 at 09:56 AM
I love to doodle while watching TV!
Carol B
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Posted by: Carol B | February 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I like to doodle when I am listening to someone talk or in a very long meeting.
Posted by: Linda Kinnaman | February 28, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I doodle when the house is quiet. I usually see something in a magazine that puts an idea into my head and I go on from there.
Posted by: Beth Ridenour- Artful Path | February 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Ha! My favorite time to doodle is when I'm on the phone and have been put on hold waiting for a real person to talk to.
Posted by: Roxanne | February 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM
My favorite doodle time is while watching tv with my husband.
Posted by: Cheryl | February 28, 2012 at 01:19 PM
My fav doodle time is evening with my kids! Go ART!!!
Posted by: Mich | February 28, 2012 at 01:29 PM
I am retired and I can doodle whenever I want. I doodle a lot when watching TV or surfing the web. Anytime is the right time for doodling if you have all the free time like I do.
Doodling is relaxing and everyone needs relaxation in their daily lives.
Posted by: Barb Javersak | February 28, 2012 at 01:35 PM
I love to doodle in the evenings when I'm winding down for bed. it helps me open up and be more spontaneous with my drawings/doodles... and helps me disconnect the mind for bed time.
Posted by: Jen Minnis | February 28, 2012 at 01:51 PM
I doodle just about everyday Anytime is my time! I get list in the moments of creativity
Posted by: Kim Zelenak | February 28, 2012 at 02:00 PM
I am an early bird and love getting up early in the day to have some quiet time to myself. It works great for us because my husband is a night hawk. While he sleeps in, I have an opportunity to do any "art" that works for me. So ... my favourite, uninterrupted time to doodle, is at five or six in the morning.
Thank you for this opportunity. The products are amazing.
Posted by: Erin | February 28, 2012 at 02:13 PM
My favorite time to doodle is....never, which sounds weird considering the connection to The Bautista book. Here's the deal: I'm so critical and serious so much of the time that I fear doodling and it not being perfect. I'm hoping to let go of that fear and to be looser and more playful!
Posted by: Wendy | February 28, 2012 at 02:29 PM
I would love to win a set of these! I have a lot of favorite times to doodle, my muse always hits in the evening and also anytime I'm waiting, at an appointment, picking up my kids, I always have a sketchbook with me!
Posted by: Marva | February 28, 2012 at 02:31 PM
Love the Foil tutorial, thanks for sharing! My time to doodle is any time I have a free moment. But I probably do most of my doodling daily while watching TV with my husband. Been doing this for over 2 years. Can't say I watch TV as intensely as I used too. But boy has my artist voice been pushing itself forward.
Posted by: Sharla | February 28, 2012 at 02:41 PM
My favorite time to doodle is when I'm watching TV in evenings
Posted by: Mary Ann Hurt | February 28, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Like you the phone seems to trigger my doodle bug. Great tutorial, love the idea.
Posted by: Bren | February 28, 2012 at 03:34 PM
Me too, it's while I am on the phone. I don't even realise it and have doodled on important papers by mistake!
Posted by: Louise Dubord | February 28, 2012 at 04:25 PM
For me too it's when I'm on the phone and I even keept some...LOL!
Posted by: Francine Groulx | February 28, 2012 at 04:40 PM
In the morning when I've opened my studio blinds and have the first cup of coffee, heaven!
Trish
Posted by: Trish | February 28, 2012 at 05:08 PM