I really wanted to do things right. I was a rule follower. I painted with paint brushes because that was apparently what I was supposed to use. I continued using paintbrushes throughout my life until one crazy day when I signed up for Flora Bowley’s Bloom True e-course (affiliate link). That class was life-changing. She breaks all of the rules and calls it being brave. Wow.
Ever since being jarred out of my closed-in art reality, I use anything interesting I can find for creating interesting marks on my paintings. Right now, I have a new paintbrush that I invented to introduce to you…
my current favorite paintbrush
Made out of a plastic palette knife and drywall tape, it’s not the most durable paintbrush I’ve ever used, but the marks it can make are gorgeous. You can see that I used it liberally on the recent Flower Fairy has Sunflowers for All acrylic mixed media painting. I can stamp with it and also scratch across the painting with it. When it wears out and the plastic tape starts to fall apart, it’s pretty easy to make another one. Here’s a close-up that shows both the stamping marks and the scratching marks.
Flower Fairy has Sunflowers for All close-up of brush strokes
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Very creative! I wonder what you’d get if you used a very course, fibrous, sanding pad.
Actually, at one point I did go at that painting with some sandpaper in spots I wanted to look a little rougher.