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flip & remix zine

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 hello!!  in my last post, I made some cute painted papers out of unwanted drawings . in this post, im gonna show you how I turned them into a cool zine!!!  so a couple weeks ago I stumbled upon this instagram account (@ artizineuk ) who does a weekly zine challenge!!! I wanted to do this but I just hadn't gotten around to it for a while....but I thought I might use my painted papers to do this flip & remix zine . basically, this idea is just to make a bunch of little books within one, and you can mix and match the pages together! so I had all these papers (I was originally going to do little paintings on each of them with paint markers, so I made this:) but I wanted to do that flip & remix zine....and these papers would make excellent pages. I cut them into sort-of even pieces and hole punched them with the only hole punch I could find -- this cute lil flower one! I made a cardstock cover & started stringing the pages together with some bracelet cord since I ...

today's art adventure

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  ☆ hello ! ☆ I have this nice watercolor paper that's really thicc and I loveee drawing on it but sometimes I go a little overboard and make a bunch of unfinished drawings that I dont like. then I feel like I wasted the nice paper! and that is not a good feeling.  so. today I took a stack of unfinished drawings and drawings I didnt like and decided I was gonna paint OVER them since its nice thick paper !  I wanted to use acrylic paint mixed with modpodge because I previously discovered that modpodged paper is a really nice surface for acrylic markers! and im kind of in an acrylic marker chapter at the moment. it's all ive been doing.  so. are you excited? im so excited. first I wanna show you the Stack of unfinished and unliked drawings I have. this is crazy. so most of them are just one idea I kept redrawing (I was trying to make a good reference of an original character but I couldn't get it right so I kept redoing it lol) so I sorted this stack into three c...