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- Hi, I'm Courtney.

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I'm an artist, the author of Playing With Image Transfers

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and Washi Tape 101.

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I used to do window and display for Anthropologie,

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and now I do set design for Creativebug.

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And often I need to make something that's really large,

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with a lot of color, really quickly, in a day or so,

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not something I can spend weeks and weeks on

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like I did in college when I was painting.

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So I came up with this kind of process

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to get some color down and create an abstract piece

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that's actually really fun and easy to do.

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You don't have to have any formal training to do this.

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We're gonna use some really inexpensive craft store paint

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in a variety of colors, and our tool for applying the paint

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is not gonna be a paint brush like you might think.

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It's actually gonna be a credit card,

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or even a library card.

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In this process, it's gonna be your whole body working.

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It's a really visceral process to paint a larger surface,

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and in the end, you're gonna wind up with something

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that's very painterly, has really consistent marks,

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and is gonna be really beautiful.