I usually watch the videos at night and paint projects the next day. Well, two nights ago, I watched this Brayer Roller class, excited the next day to tackle the project. Except that I forgot the layering Denise did. 

I had some leftover paint on my palette from another project I'd just completed, so I used it as my brayer "warmup" session. As I was doing the warmup, I realized something crucial. In all the paints I've purchased the last few years (watercolors, craft acrylics, and now Liquitex acrylics), I have not purchased many muted colors - everything I own is bold and bright! Ha. So after the first bright six, I put the paints away and then re-watched the brayer class again. Ahhh ... layers are my friend. 

I looked for the most muted colors I had - rose pink, light permanent blue - and a complementary darker color - deep violet. Didn't exactly nail the rule of thirds with these, but I'm very pleased with the way they turned out. I see lots of "yummy bits" in there that make me happy. 

Thanks for another great class. I look forward to doing more brayer projects now that I'm getting the hang of it. 

(Important lesson I learned the hard way today: The "new" [at least to me] "Clean Release Painters Tape" by Duck is not clean release. It leaves behind all its glue so all my borders [on Canson XL] are sticky.)