Deceptively Easy Night-Sky Paint Play

Welcome to Better With Art! I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your creativity and practice creative self-care with weekly small-art prompts that can be done in an art journal or on paper if you don’t have one. This week I’m revisiting a deeply-colored bit of relaxation from the 52-Week Art Journal Journey. All you need is your art journal or heavy paper, masking tape, inexpensive acrylic craft paint, an old credit-card style plastic card (card stock or cardboard will work in a pinch), a fine paintbrush if you’d like to add paint-splatter stars (I remember using a toothbrush for a similar effect to create snow in elementary school art), and a pen if you’d like to add a quirky border.

Here are specifics on the materials I used.

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This is the link to the journal I use in my prompt videos, and for the art journaling groups at the library where I work. I LOVE the paper. It works well with the dry, wet, and layered applications I use it for, and it’s my top value-for-the-money recommendation to get started with my simple for of art journaling.
If you’d like something different than this three-pack, look for heavyweight paper, preferably hot-press because although I love the texture of cold-press it’s really hard on markers and pens. The paper in this journal is 140lb/300gsm.

Scotch Delicate Surface tape
Craft Smart acrylic craft paint; this pack has 36 colors
Elmer’s disappearing purple glue sticks; this one’s a 3-pack
MARTCOLOR Micro Line Pens

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