My name is Katie and I have paint-a-phobia!!

...seriously I do!!! I think about painting something and I come over all peculiar!!

Colouring with Copics or pencils no worries- inking something to within an inch of it's life- not a problem- pop open the cap of a tube of acrylic paint and I want to run a mile!!

I guess the problem started WAY back when I was unable to paint or draw things the way I imagined them in my head, kinda made me mad-mad at the paint, it wasn't my fault of course!!! *sheepish grin*

So I was thinking that this was ridiculous because I've seen fab pages and I REALLY want to overcome my fear of paint, therefore I decided that as it was Lent I'd set myself the task of doing 6 painted pages in my old, dusty, unloved art journal!!

So I first painted squares of acrylic paint randomly onto a page :

Next I took an indelible marker (a paint style one) and did a few squiggles around the blocks of colour.

- OK so far so good, The sqiggling seemed to pull the page together a bit more - this was going alright!

Then I found some sequin waste and splodged some ink through- that was cool, I'm liking this effect!

Then I freehanded a sun and a lil' house on the page with my ink pen and added a couple of stamped images and some paper tape! 

Yikes I was on a roll and you know what - I'd ENJOYED myself!!

So I decided to press on quickly with another page before the FEAR crept upon me again!

I was REALLY going to face down my fears this time I was going to use...YELLOW PAINT *blurgh*

I DON'T LIKE YELLOW- look at my artwork- I don't DO yellow!!! 

So I painted the WHOLE page yellow and even my daughter said to me ' but you said yellow makes you feel yukky' LOL

I then took some Tim Holtz masks (Cogs and Iron Work) and applied acrylic paint over them, randomly changing the colours as I went.

Next I took black paint and added a big square on an angle on the page and squidged the paint through one of those school alpha stencils that come in geography sets!

I tried flicking some red paint with a toothbrush but ended up covering my face and glasses (what am I like?!) so then I resorted to using the MOST awesome stamp of all time from Stampotique called Splatter Long it TOTALLY looks like splatters of paint and it's so much safer!!

So then I had a graffiti style page and I was rather chuffed with the end result!

So all in all my painting experiment is going really well- I have to say that using paints on a 6x6 page is far less intimidating now than when I started which is a result!

FORCING myself to use the paints and play with them has made me feel far more comfortable using them and I actually *ahem* enjoyed myself and have done MORE than the 6 pages I planned!

I think that's rather a result!

My name is Katie and I'm not such a paint-a-phobe anymore!!

Couple of quick Blog links for inspiration:

Christy Tomlinson

Are you Flowin?!

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Made by Nicole

Comments

[caz]

haha I loved reading this post as it completely describes me!! I have great ideas in my head but i can't seem to draw or paint them the weay they look in my head!! Your pages are fab fab fab...I don't think you need to be scared of paint anymore :-)

[alexa]

Brilliant! Glad unscrewing the top of the acrylic tube is no longer anxiety-making :). Love what you produced!

[Claireliz]

They are fab pages Katie, although I don't have a fear of paint, I can't get the paint on the page to look like it does in my head :D
C
xx

[Lynne V]

Gorgeous pages, thanks for the encouragement to try paint out.

[Debbie Roberts]

Lovely pages, glad you are on your way to being cured x

[jayne]

I'm enjoying your Paintaphobia & hope you don't really get over it if this is the results you come up with :)

[Nicole Maki]

Fantastic painty results. I really truly love how they turned out. The sun is such a nice accent and you really incorporated your stamps masterfully. Great job.

Thanks so much for sharing my blog link with your readers. I was insanely flattered to see my name in the same list as such talented artists.

[Boo]

Oh WOW you've done wonders KT. So pleased it's got you over your phobia. Love what you've done. You inky, glittery, painty madam you! :D Boo xxx