Step 5: Grab a roll of masking or painter’s tape, tear off pieces of differing lengths, and stick them randomly and/or intentionally onto your painting to mask areas that will be covered when you apply new layers of paint to the entire canvas. ✅
Before grabbing tape, I quickly layer on additional bits of color, let the paint dry, and then get busy sticking strips of painter’s tape hither and thither. As instructed, some placements are random, others intentional.
Step 6: Spread a thickish wet layer of paint over the entire canvas, covering some areas with a neutral mix and the rest with white. ✅
Step 7: While that paint layer is still wet, carve line work into it with a palette knife, toothpick, or other implement so as to reveal hints of what’s beneath. ✅
Step 8: Next, and again while the paint is still wet, remove all the pieces of masking tape. ✅
I feel very connected to the initial thoughts I wrote on this canvas, and can still feel their energy despite their having long since become almost completely obscured. I’m grateful for the heart connection to and internalizing of my written 2025 intentions because they just keep getting buried deeper and deeper!
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