I’m taking an online class at Studio Calico called Color Theory by Wilna Furstenberg. It’s a crafty paint type of class and it’s strictly fun but I’m learning a lot more than I had imagined. The first week covered impasto.

I didn’t have pink acrylic paint (is there such a thing as pink acrylic paint?) so I mixed white and red to get the pink.  Initially, the pink was lighter than the darker color you see in the photos so I just added a bit more red to the mix.  I used Regular Gel Matte by Golden Artist Colors as the thickener.  For the black ink splatters, I didn’t have black in the little bottle Wilna used so I mixed a little water with black acrylic paint and used a brush to fling the color where I wanted the splatters.  The paper with the stamp ink is by Bazzill called Avalanche.  They have little ridges instead of the canvas texture. The heart stickers  and white stars stickers were from a Facebook swap, the little beads with the hole in them came from a Hello Kitty Scrapbook Kit my daughter didn’t want, and the butterflies are from my Martha Stewart Butterfly puncher.  The intricate flower cutout and the words (live, laugh, love) are cut files created by Wilna Furstenberg.  I didn’t use a glue gun like Wilna does even though I do have one.  I may start using it but for now I use the matte medium, Mod Podge, and E6000 as my glues.