Using the book Textured Art by Melissa McKinnon and a 16×20 wood panel (gessoed with clear gesso), I followed along the demo of a desert scene. For the project, as directed, I used acrylic inks from Liquitex and Daler-Rowney FW acrylic inks, Golden’s High-Flow acrylic paint, and modeling paste and crackle paste.

I would not use the inks or the high-flow paint again; they were just not of interest to me. There’s no reason to not just use regular acrylic paint for this, in my opinon, and the ink base (under the crackle paste) didn’t really show through. I tried to hack at it and remove some, as the author of the book did, but was largely unsuccessful.

However, I would consider using the modeling paste again. Not sure the crackle paste would be useful to me.