Credit Card Painting Technique for Art Backgrounds

The different colors seem to attach to the paper where you put them and spread out so you end up with various colors that don’t mush together. Now, too much swiping and you could get a mess of mixed color, but if you do it right, they’re separate and beautiful.

• Craft paint
• Card stock
• Credit card

Apply little dollops of paint on different spots on your card stock.

Use a few colors and be random where you put the dollops.

Pressing against the card stock, slowly scrape away the paint using a credit card.

It should leave different colored areas on your paper.

Use little strokes to scrape outward with the credit card.

You can fill in any white gaps with another swipe of the card.

But be careful, too many swipes will mix the colors and not look as good.

Check out all my tutorials on mixed media art techniques on my website.