SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Liquitex Basics Acrylic colors: Titanium White, Light Green Permanent, Primary Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light Hue
- 11"x 14" canvas (pre-primed)
- Clean Loofah
- 7 strands of yarn, 16"-18" long
- Trowel-shaped palette knife
- Masking tape
- Black marker
- Palette paper
- Paper or plastic to protect the surface (optional)
- Gloves (Optional)
DIRECTIONS:
- Protect your work surface with paper or plastic (recommended).
- Tear off 14 pieces of masking tape (about 1 1/2" each).
- Number each piece of tape from 1 to 14 with a marker.
- Determine where your strands of yarn will lay; consider the negative shapes being created when overlapping the yarn
- Lay the first piece of yarn across the canvas and adhere one end with tape piece #1. Make taut and tape the other end with piece #2.
- Continue this process for each strand of yarn, using tape pieces in sequential order.
- OPTIONAL: Put on gloves. On your palette paper, squeeze out 1 tablespoon of Cadmium Yellow Light Hue and 1 tablespoon of Light Green Permanent.
- Then squeeze out 1/2 teaspoon of Primary Blue and 1 teaspoon of Titanium White.
- Mix the blue and white with the palette knife to create a tinted version of the blue.
- With a clean palette knife, spread the yellow, green, and blue paint out into a thick line to make it easier to dip the bath loofah.
- Slightly squeeze the loofah and dip into the blue.
- Starting in the top left corner, dab loofah on the surface of the canvas. Work gently to make sure the yarn stays in place.
- Rotate the loofah and dip a clean area into the yellow.
- Dab the yellow in a diagonal line below the blue, allowing some of the yellow to overlap the blue.
- Rotate the loofah again and dip another clean area into the green.
- Dab the green in a diagonal line below the yellow, allowing some of the green to overlap the yellow.
- Repeat color order and continue until the canvas is completely covered with paint.
- With paint still wet, remove gloves (otherwise they will stick to the tape) and remove the yarn strands by peeling off the pieces of tape in reverse order from #14 to #1.
JOANN HACKS:
- Remove your gloves (if used) before touching tape as they will stick to the gloves.