Learn how to create easy backgrounds for your art journals, altered books, and mixed-media projects. This book will take you through the basic materials and simple painting techniques, which you can combine in infinite ways to create your own unique backgrounds. You'll learn about glazing, drybrushing, sponging, ragging, stamping, stenciling, creating backgrounds with paint and tape, and how to use gesso with and without paint. Each technique comes with step-by-step photos and instructions. This book was created from the information contained on the Basic Acrylic Backgrounds how-to CD that was previously available from Ten Two Studios.