Art Fun Cheap

Experimentation is the secret of having art fun on the cheap. Here is something I discovered by playing with things I happen to have lying around the house.
If you don’t care about archival qualities, nail polishes can be used as paper glazes. The glitter is usually very fine and well distributed, it’s easy to get [...]

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Making your own paper glazes can be fun. Most of us have plenty of art supplies (or potential art supplies) lying around. Sometimes we have more than we realize. Why not play with them to discover new ways to use them?
Acrylic Medium for a Waterproof Glaze
have some fine glitter that I plan to mix with [...]

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Art Fun Cheap thrives on comments. This post is a complete rewrite of an earlier post about how I accidentally deleted 10 comments while trying to rescue one comment (from a great Art Fun Cheap commentor) from the spam filter.
I think I have figured it out now. I just successfully deleted a spam comment that [...]

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Paper glazes look a lot like thin glitter glue spread thinly over paper. Some paper glazes contain glitter; others have small confetti mixed in. Some have both.
But paper glazes also impart a quality of their own. There also seems to be a bit of acrylic medium in paper glazes that can add strength and a [...]

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Watch this video and decide for yourself if this is not the coolest thing you’ve seen in awhile. It is quiet. There are no words. The only sounds are the snips of scissors and the soothing gurgle of a fish tank in the background (sounding like a small fountain).
Even if you don’t feel that you [...]

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