Leftover Acrylic Paints?

Two acrylic paintings of mine ...

Above:  a three-dimensional work on canvas, developed with my 6" x 6" stencil Mimosa 6.

Above:  a painting developed with the help of my 9" x 12" stencil Blooming Where Planted.  You can click on the above image to enlarge it.  The stenciled areas are subtle.

Sometimes I finish a project -- like those two above -- to find leftover acrylic paint on my hands.  Well, not literally on my hands!  I use a white disposable plate as a palette and that's where the leftovers lay.  

The first day the paint has come out of the tube or bottle or jar, I spray the leftover paint lightly with water, then seal it, plate and all, in a zip-top bag.  (I use the zip-top bags that come in packages marked "freezer" because these are more nearly air-tight.  Later, after all leftover paint is gone, I re-use these bags in cleaning up after my cat ... you know what I mean!)

If a couple of days pass without any further need for that leftover paint, I consider it near the end of its lifespan -- so I put it to work making extra stencil prints that will end up in collages or art journal pages.
  

Above and below:  both made with 9" x 12" Blooming Where Planted stencil.  The print below has a three-dimensional look, which happened entirely by accident!

Below:  printed with 6" x 6" stencil-and-mask set, Dance of the Courting Cranes.

Note:  This silhouette stencil works well with old calendar pages -- see the "rising sun" in the central-left of this image?

 Above and below:  two prints made with Feathers 6 stencil, which measures 6" x 6" (but has a "big sister" measuring 9" x 12" -- Feathers 9 stencil.)

Below: Layers being developed with 6" x 6" Pavilion Shadows stencil and 6" x 6" Mikki's Flowers Mask (which also comes as Mikki's Flowers Stencil and prints an image that's the exact opposite of the mask.) 

  

A batch of leftover blended yellows went into making the print below...

... and the stencils that worked together to make this overall geometric pattern were 6" x 6" Pavilion Shadows and 6" x 6" Ski Lift Works.  


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