Splatter invokes playfulness.

I recently bought some ink sprays from Dyan Reaveley’s Dylusions line. These are acid-free water-soluble dyes that you can spray on your journals and artwork. They’re reactivated by water so you’ll have to keep that in mind when you put wet media on pages that you’ve sprayed with these paints. 

I’ve been using them like watercolors – spraying them on a variety of my drawing and watercolor paper surfaces, or taking the spray head out of the bottle and drawing with the long plastic tube.  

The triptych was made by drawing shapes in ink, spraying the page, then applying a wet brush to pull the color out over the page.

The other paintings were made by painting on tracing paper. In some parts of the page, I sprayed through a stencil. I may draw or write on top, or cut them up and use as collage papers in my journal. 

Is there an art medium that you’ve been wanting to try? Let yourself experiment and play.