Drip Painting {Craft Challenge, Day 75}

Make a drip painting with random colors of paint.

Here’s another quick and easy creative project you can do in just a few minutes that is surprisingly a lot of fun for how simple it is. Drip painting is exactly what it sounds like: getting paint on a surface by dripping it on randomly. I decided I wanted to do mine on cardboard, but […]

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Add More Color

Adding more paint makes the slow art canvas more colorful.

Here we are on day four of our slow art project. It does feel really slow, right? But I kind of love this pace. It gives you time to think about what you want to do next, to really build on each step and give it time to decide if its complete or not. The […]

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Painting with a Credit Card

Ad more paint to your slow art canvas with a credit card

Now it’s time to add more color to our slow art canvas. Because I sometimes combine fast thinking and slow projects, I kind of picked the colors I chose for mine at random. I wanted a neutral — which is brown — and a couple of brighter colors that would look good with the original […]

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Paint a Canvas — Slow Art

Paint a canvas a solid color to begin a slow art project.

I mentioned yesterday that I have been thinking about slow art and crafts, projects that take a lot of time and are more meditative than those that you can complete quickly. It’s a different way of getting in the flow of things, practice for paying attention and being in the moment. I wanted to try […]

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