Easy Art Journal Background with Neocolors and Collage ⭐ Mixed Media for Beginners

🌞Hi there, Susanne here with an art journaling video tutorial, perfect for beginners, using Neocolor II crayons to create a background and Collage Fodder made with our Sketchy Leaves stencils from gel prints. I started the background by adhering a few collage paper bits with a glue stick. I then primed the page with a thin layer of clear gesso. After this was dry I layed down Neocolor II crayons in warm pastel shades and blended the colours with my finger dipped into water. When the Neocolors get wet they are similar to gouache paint. I let this dry again and added a second layer with scribbles and marks using the Neocolors and a pencil. I wanted to push back the collage papers a bit more and also bring in more white space, so I used a white Art Graf Tailor shape crayon to apply some white. You could also use white acrylic paint or ink to do that. I also made some white splatters. For more interesst and texture on the background I stamped the text stamp from Mix It Up 4. My focal images are made from gelli prints and our Sketchy Leaves 1 and Sketchy Leaves 3 stencils. I adhered them on top of the stamped leaf from Pencil Marks 7. I stamped this directly to the spread with black StazOn ink. Unfortunately the Sketchy Leaves 3 stencil is already sold out, but we have a follow up set already, which is the Sketchy Leaves 4 stencil. I will link up the video on how to make the collage fodder at the end of this post! I finished the page by stamping a sentiment to the right and also to a separate piece of paper, which I adhered to the bottom left. Here is the video on how I made the leaves: 🌎BLOG POST Follow our blog with wordpress: Wenn Ihr dieses Video auf deutsch sehen möchtet, dann besucht doch mal meinen deutschen Kanal: 🧑‍🎨SUPPLIES & TOOLS: Rubber Dance Stamps & Stencils: 💘 Pencil Marks 7 - 💘 Pencil Marks 6 - 💘 Mix It Up 4 - 💘 Mixed Sentiments - 💘 Sketchy Leaves Stencil - 🧑‍🎨 Visit our Shop-Blog for daily new stamping projects: 💌Subscribe to our Newsletter: 💃 Join the Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge on Facebook: Art Journal from Action Deutschland Neocolor II: StazOn Ink: Viarco Art Graf: (as an alternative you can use and white paints, just the white Neocolor is not as opaque as I wanted it here) 🛒⭐Product recommendations and discount codes⭐ Shop at Stationery Pal: 🛒Shop link: ⭐ 15% discount code for you: Susanne15 Amazon Storefront: Amazon Affiliate Links: 🧑‍🎨Mein Buch: 🧑‍🎨Watercolors () Mijello: vanGogh: Rosa Gallery: MeiLiang: Pearlescent: Neon: Brusho Powders: 🧑‍🎨Crayons: Neocolor II: Oil Pastels: 🧑‍🎨Papers (): Canson XL: Rice Paper: Newsprint: Fabriano Academia: 🧑‍🎨Stamping Ink: Archival Ink: StazOn Ink: Versafine Clair: Distress Oxide: 🧑‍🎨Pencils: Derwent Inktense: 🧑‍🎨Tombow Gluestick: 🛒 🎨 My Art on RedBubble: 📸 ⭐ 🚀 🎯 👣 🛒 Mein Buch Colorful Art findet Ihr hier: 👉DOMESTIKA ART CLASSES My favourite online platform to learn and to improve my art: Sponsored by Domestika 👉SKILLSHARE Try Skillshare 2 weeks for free: Sponsored by Skillshare #collagefodder #artjournaling #neocolor Some of the links are affiliate links and I get a comission for my product sales. That doesn’t cost you more! This gives me a small income to keep up my channel with weekly content. 00:00 Collage and gesso 02:00 Applying Neocolor crayons 04:30 Mark making 07:10 Adding white space 08:30 Background Stamping 10:40 Finishing up the Page