4 Artist Trading Cards from Painted Backgrounds - Book of Backgrounds Ideas

If you’ve done my Book of Background series (background art painted with acrylics and mixed media), you know the next step is the DOUG stage (Doing Our Unusual Genre) and many of you use those pages just for art journaling. But there is so much more that you can do with the painted backgrounds and in this video, I’ll show you how to create 4 artist trading cards using nothing but painted backgrounds and a simple quote stamped on paper. Ready to make this? Here’s what I used: Substrate: Background and Art Minis created in this video: Palette: DecoArt Americana Premium Acrylic Paint -Titanium White - DTA40 -Cadmium Red Hue - DTA04 DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics -Transparent Red Iron Oxide - DMFA41 Mediums: DecoArt Americana Premium -Heavy Gel Medium Gloss - DTAM02 -White Gesso - DTAM07 -Matte Medium - DTAM04 DecoArt Media -Crackle Glaze - DMM16 -Liquid Glass - DMM14 DecoArt Americana -