hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel hope you're having a
great week thank you so much for coming again and today I have a new video where
I created another background for the series Wow backgrounds this is a very
very simple way to create a background and to tell you the truth I didn't even
think of this idea myself not only it's not my idea but also I never actually
thought of it even though it's so logical and so easy to do it's called a
dragging technique or that's basically what I call it and you can use any type
of paint for it and it's so so easy and it makes amazing backgrounds that look
like there are a million dollar backgrounds but they're actually made in
such a simple way that I really felt that I wanted to show you and give you
this content because I am really loving creating backgrounds that's one of my
favorite things to do when I want to create them for cards or for our
journaling or even for my canvases and scrapbooking layouts so I want to make
another type of background and I also want to bring some ideas to my channel
that I see out there and that are really really great so all I did is I put a few
drops of each of the paints and these are dollar-store paints and I added them
in a row at the top of my paper this is a bristol smooth paper from Strathmore
and all I'm doing is I'm using old credit cards this is a Starbucks card
actually in an itunes card and drag that along towards the bottom of my paper
it creates beautiful dragging marks but you could use for any type of project
you could embellish it you could use it as a background or just leave it the way
it is or you can cut up pieces to insert it into an art journal or a canvas I'm
going to show you again I'm gonna do this now horizontally and I'm adding a
bunch of colors the other way around I use separate cards for dragging just to
make sure that colors don't blend in so once you apply all the colors and you
don't have to put a lot of paint you just go ahead and you drag the colors
along I picked really bright acrylic paints
for this technique because I really think it's important to have bright
colors for backgrounds you want to also make sure that the acrylic paint is the
right consistency meaning not too thick and also not too liquidy so you can drag
along the paper this is truthfully such a fun and easy technique to do now a lot
of it stays on top of the credit card so I thought a good idea is to grab another
piece of paper and actually use it to drag in different directions the
leftover paint that I have and that created an amazing background as well
this is almost like a kindergarten technique that you can just do and you
can do this with your kids or you can do this for your projects it creates really
great backgrounds without having to do a lot of effort and I just thought oh wow
why didn't I think of this why didn't I think of doing this before until I saw
it from Pinterest or on another YouTube video and I thought you know what I'll
do this as well and just to show people that it's possible to do here I added
the drops in a circular shape and I'm just dragging them out to see how it
looks that way as well I thought I could create some kind of star shape I don't
know I was just experimenting as usual I love experimenting as you know so that's
something that I wanted to do here I want to talk a little bit about copying
so a lot of people have argued very stressed and I mentioned this in my last
while background video about copying techniques techniques are just things
that you experiment that you learn you can definitely copy a technique as long
as you're not doing the same exact project as somebody else and I find that
a lot of people get very stressed out because others are copying their
techniques techniques were not invented by one person unless you can really go
back and search who invented a technique and then you have to give them credit
but if there is like hundreds of people creating the same techniques online then
you can just go ahead and experiment and do and create your own projects on your
own videos and nobody can really say anything about that because you can go
ahead and copy a technique now if you're copying a project that's a
different story you do need to give credit to the person but if you're just
copying a technique a technique that many people do then it's really hard to
just give credit to the original owner so go ahead and experiment with this
technique is just basically dragging it's instead of using a palette knife
I'm using a card and these have been used for centuries so it's really not
copying so go ahead and experiment and me create your own videos and through on
your own dragon techniques and just have fun with it I really really encourage
people to experiment that's why I want to bring you these videos because I want
to show experimentation and how fun it is to do this it almost looks like I
created these backgrounds on a gel plate and it was just basically dragging
everything all over the place thank you so much for visiting me today I hope you
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