Art journal backgrounds

Make it your own with colorful, mixed media backgrounds. Discover the fun of collage art for your journal! Experiment with tearing paper, sticking techniques, and brushwork to fill spaces with color and texture.

Create mixed media backgrounds in your art journal with easy step-by-step tutorials with photos for each step. Plus: a background challenge.

If you’re into art journaling (I love it!) or mixed media art then I recommend taking a couple of minutes to read through this post by Carmen Whitehead! Carmen is continuing her Art Jour…

Hi everybody. I am sharing a new art journaling video tutorial today with an acrylic background using some stamps and stencils. I am adding mark makings for depth and a lovely bird as the focal ima…

Gesso is a supply that I think is often overlooked or only thought of as a basic prepping supply. But that is really doing this amazing medium a big disservice. I love to use gesso in lots of different ways in my art journals and I am sharing a really great background idea with you here in this vide

Today I am going to show 6 ways that I made easy background papers using supplies that you might already have around your craft room!

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Create six easy art journal backgrounds. Get rid of those blank pages (or blank canvas) quickly and use one of these easy methods. Read more at Louise's ARTiculations.

Today, I am going to show you a fun image transfer technique AS WELL as an awesome new way to make an art journal (or other mixed media) background.Some of you may be keen on image transfer methods, while others might find them intimidating. So, let's ask this first:What is an image transfer?An image transfer is any method where you would transfer a printed image to anything else. There are a ton of different ways you can do this, but I am only going to show you one.I will be showing you a…