How to Distress and Age Magazine Pages for Your Collage and Mixed Media Work

Video Description

Today's video is a mini-course in how to distress, degloss, and age magazine pages to use in your work – your art journals, junk journals, collage, altered books, and other mixed media projects. If you've seen my videos you know that I tend to use original vintage paper and other pieces in my work but recently I learned a technique that changed the way I look at humble magazine pages and how to turn them into gorgeous, distressed, one of a kind beautiful pages. I would be beyond grateful if you would contribute and support my channel and free art tutorials by going to: https://ko-fi.com/bookandpaperarts?utm_medium=email&utm_source=onboarding&utm_campaign=SharePage This technique was inspired by the lovely and oh so creative artist Aimee Bishop. You can find her video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-iPWhzpZI&ab_channel=AimeeBishop This is Part 1 and it it includes techniques for taking the shiny gloss off of your papers, adding coffee or ink wash for a patina, overpainting, and adding texture with stencils. I'll be back next week with Part 2, how to make magazine pages into momagami, soft, fabric-like papers using a Japanese kneading technique. Please subscribe to my channel and be sure and turn on the notifications and let me know if you have any questions or feedback. I have an online course THE BOOK OF YOU: How to Make and Keep an Illustrated Journal. You can find it here ($32): https://kelly-s-school-b1d1.thinkific.com/courses/the-book-of-you-making-and-keeping-a-visual-diary