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Paper Towels and Paint
Tools and materials
• Watercolor
or acrylic paints
• Palette of some sort
• Water
• Brushes
• Paper towels with
patterns on them
• Spritzer, if you have one
• Freezer paper
or wax paper
Tool
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•
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or acr
• Palett
•
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• Bru
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• Pa
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atter
• Spritz
• Freeze
or wax
Don’t neglect the paper towels that are probably sitting in your
kitchen or studio right now. The sturdy kind with embossed
patterns have many uses! Once you’ve dyed them, as explained
here, use them as backgrounds, in collages, in found-object art.
As you’re working on any paint project, keep the paper towels
with which you wipe up messes or rub o ...