Saturday 14 May 2016

Alcohol Inks - Dawn Heald



Hellooo,

Happy weekend everyone, what 
have you all got planned? 
Something nice I hope!

It's time for another post using 
Alcohol Inks and Dawn is here
with us today.  And she has been
very busy!
Dawn says....



This week using alcohol inks and PaperArtsy
 Emma Godfrey's latest stamps I've gone
 with a love theme as it's my other 
half and my anniversary. 

I've used a couple different techniques
 to create a background on a canvas board and
 the design details. I had a lot of fun and
 did a lot of experimenting along the way.
 Using alcohol inks and water is very addictive
 and then I started playing with Yupo Paper
 and wow you really need this paper, it is 
 awesome. I've added some notes I thought
 you may find useful along the way. There
 are lots of steps but it shows you really
 can mix it up, use different techniques
 with two main ingredients. Hope you like
 this post, it's rather a long tutorial this week.

So to create the background
 on the canvas board.
Add white gesso in a thick layer over the
 whole board leaving some uneven
 ridges visible. Dry.

Then using an old plastic container fill with
 water, couple of inches plenty. Drop in your
 chosen colours of alcohol inks. A few drops
 of each will do.


Experiment, have spare pieces of paper
or card to try out colours and different
combinations of ink colours before going
on to the canvas panel. You'll get
a feel for how they react.
Then slide your canvas panel into the 
water and straight out. If you want a deeper
colour like I did, dry with heat tool and
repeat the steps. I did it three times.
And there's no need to change to
 clean water each time.


Just a note - This method produces lighter
colours than just using alcohol inks on
 their own.

Dry then spritz blending solution over the
 board for a tiny speckled look. Again do
 it once, dry and you can always do another
 spritz. If you load the blender on it the
 colours will just end up all blending together
 defeating the water colour marble look.
When all dry and I used my heat tool gently,
 use Decoart Media Satin Varnish to seal
 the background. I did this in three thin 
layers. Using the brush to paint it on one
 way across, then the opposite way, then
 back to first way. This builds up an even
 layer and gets eliminates the brush marks
 usually left behind. Unless you want that
 look. It dries quickly and is a favourite
 product of mine.



Next, get your stamps at the ready. 

Use the smaller images to create a border and
 stamp LOVE bottom corner with Jet Black
 Stazon ink, stamp with Midnight Blue 
Stazon, the trio of hearts all over the board
 and then fill in with the x x x stamp using
 Royal Purple Stazon ink.


 Using some
 gesso coloured very pale lilac with ink,
paint around parts of the hearts to make
 them stand out. Use a white gel pen to
 highlight LOVE and dots around the border.


To finish the canvas board itself, mix
 Decoart Media Texture Sandpaste with
 Indigo Alcohol Ink and spread through
 Spinning Tops Stencil. When dry rub 
over this with silver gilding wax.
To make the features.

Create three alcohol ink backgrounds in
 contrasting colours so they really pop.
First background piece is made using
 the alcohol ink in water technique on watercolour
 card. The second piece is made on Yupo
 Paper simply dropping the inks on to the
 paper, letting them spread, take your
 time then flick blending solution onto
 it using an old toothbrush.
The third piece and my favourite is again
 on Yupo Paper.


Place Tando Crocodile Mask
 on top, tape edges to secure if liked. Then
 add droplets of alcohol inks into the spaces.
It does seep underneath but still
 comes out just great. 
I did use cling film scrunched on top of yet
 inks, it worked but was taking
 too long for me to dry.
TIPS. HANDLE THE YUPO PAPER AS LITTLE
 AT POSSIBLE FINGER MARKS ETC MAY SHOW.
 IF YOU'RE NOT LIKING YOUR RESULTS YOU
 CAN RUB IT BACK WITH BLENDING SOLUTION
 OR RUBBING ALCOHOL ETC. IT WILL STAIN
 THE CARD BUT YOU CAN START AGAIN.
 I DID THIS A FEW TIMES ON ONE PIECE
 AND IT STILL WORKED.

Let these dry. 



Then stamp hearts using Black 
Archival ink and words onto them and cut out.

Attach these to canvas with foam pads.
 Embellish with silver heart brads
 with wings snipped away.
Run around the edge of the board
 with black marker to finish.






Phew, so what do you think, have you tried
 this before? Any tips or thoughts, please do
 share. Or if you haven't then have a bash.
 You can tailor these techniques to your choice
 of project, like art journals, tags, cards and
 other mixed media makes. Thank you so
 much for checking this out.

Oh. My. Goodness, what an amazing 
tutorial for you!


If you want to have a go, this is 
what Dawn used -

 Alcohol Inks - Background - Indigo, 
Sailboat Blue, Stream, Wild Plum, Raspberry.
 Images - Sunshine Yellow, Butterscotch,
 Citrus, Terracotta.
Spray Bottle - ( the Woodware ones are
 excellent but mine were all in use)
Yupo Paper Pad
Canvas Board 5 x 7
Stazon Inks - Jet Black, Midnight Blue, 
Royal Purple,
Ranger Black Archival Ink



From own stash - 
silver heart brads, old toothbrush


Well that's it for this week,
hope you have enjoyed the posts.
Challenge Day tomorrow!!

Jane x

2 comments:

  1. Never tried this method before... I didn't know the alcohol inks would work in this way as I thought only oil based inks worked. I can't wait to try ! Thanks to Dawn for a great tutorial.
    The canvas is looking beautiful and striking with the contrasting colours, hope the hubby will like it too!

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  2. A great post and most timely as I have been playing with Yupo paper...such fun. I really like the effects you can get just dropping on the alcohol inks . Thanks for sharing your experiments x

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