{Mixed Media Tutorial} Autumn Art By MariLynn

Hi, MariLynn here with a fun tutorial for Autumn. 

Materials: Acrylic paint, Gel plate, Brayer, Thin strip of paper - curled, Cardboard tube, Drywall tape, Autumn Falling stencil, Colored pencils, Water color paint, Paint brush, Spray bottle of water, Crumpled piece of paper, White gel pen

I started by using my brayer to spread blue acrylic paint onto my gel plate. 

I then used some homemade "tools" a cardboard tube, a section of drywall tape, and a strip of paper that I had curled. I placed these objects onto the paint to get a design. 

You can see where the "tools" took the paint off of the gel plate leaving behind a design. 

This is how the print looked that I pulled off the gel plate. 

I set the print aside and prepared the gel plate with fall colors.

I put brown, pinks, yellows, green onto my gel plate. 

I usually use a brayer to spread the paint on my gel plate. Today though I didn't want the paint to completely mix. so I used a crumpled piece of paper to spread the paint without mixing it. 

I placed the ARTplorations stencil over my gel plate.

I then layerd these leaves over my first print. 

Here is how it looked.

You can see that some of the leaves didn't completely come through. So I laid the stencil down again over the print and used a pencil to "finish" off the leaves. 

I used colored pencils to fill in the 'missing' areas. 

I then erased the pencil lines. I added some white highlights with a gel pen. I used a spray bottle, watercolor paint and a paintbrush to add splatters of watercolor paint. 

I hope that this tutorial has inspired you to create art. Thanks for reading along.