Do you ever just want to play with watercolor painting but you don't know where to start? These seven watercolor techniques are an easy way to begin.
Black silhouetted figures shield themselves from the downpour of vibrantly colored inks in these drawings by Chinese and French artist Marc Allante. As
Follow this Photoshop tutorial to create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes we’ll create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats. I was recently out at the clothes store and came across a […]
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Discover ink techniques for mixed-media art journal pages, canvases, and more, using India, acrylic, and calligraphy inks.
In this tutorial video, I teach you my FAVORITE technique in watercolor—the wet-on-wet technique. It's great for loose-style painting.
I deliver art sessions at Sketchbook Skool - drawing mostly, with a little painting and collage too. It's always good to see what the...
Recently I did this demonstration of a pen and ink drawing of Magnolias. Technically this is as much a painting as it is a drawing but for now I will continue to call it a drawing. The demonstratio…
Learn how to get started with watercolor painting, step by step, using the watercolor techniques wet on wet for beginners
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Follow this Photoshop tutorial to create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes we’ll create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats. I was recently out at the clothes store and came across a […]
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Here is the deal...I LOVE kid's markers, specifically Crayola Washable Markers (and no I was not paid to say this). Even in my days before before Lucy, I would grab kid's markers instead of spending lots of money on all those fancy markers. Today I thought I would share some of my favorite tips and tricks when using kid's markers for adult mixed media projects! Any washable or water soluble markers will work with the things that I share but I really do have a special place in my heart for Crayola Markers. They remind me of coloring as a kid, they come in a really great variety of colors and they are a super affordable way to add color to drawings and mixed media projects. The best part of using kid's markers is that I don't feel guilty when I am hard on them or treat them bad! I am notorious for loosing, ruining and and using my supplies in crazy ways so spending $3.50 on a package of markers is perfect for me. My three year old Lucy loves to color which means we always have markers around but I also like to keep my own stash on hand. I typically will purchase a few packages at a time and I set one set aside for coloring only and then I use another set for experiments, layering and blending. Markers and colored and colored pencils are so easy to toss into your purse and head out to create on the go! Kid's markers are great to use for adding color to doodles and drawings. While they may not come in the color options that fancy illustration markers come in, they still have really nice classic colors that will transform any line drawing into something vibrant! You can also layer and blend with them which makes coloring WAY more interesting! I like to start with a light color and then I go over the top with another color (typically in the same color family). Then I grab the lighter color and go over the top of everything- the two colors will begin to blend together. I repeat this process over and over again until my colors are blended to my satisfaction! I like using this blending technique when I am coloring my designs. It is a great way to add depth and layers of color. One of my favorite things about the Crayola Washable Markers is that they are water soluble which means they will wash out of clothing but they also can be used like watercolors! Add water to the surface and you can dissolve that pigment and blend it or even paint with it! I LOVE using this process to transform marker drawings into something that look a little more like watercolors by softening edges and blending the color. Remember a while back when I shared how to make a watercolor pencil travel palette? Well the cool thing about washable markers is that you can do the same thing! Simply fill a page with marker pigment. When you are ready to paint, you can pull out your sheet of paper, add water and use the pigment for painting. TIP: I always use a water brush when I am painting on the go. Because you fill the handle with water, it cancels out the need for a jar of water! You can toss these pages into your pencil pouch and paint on the go without the hassle of bringing lots of supplies! Another cool thing you can do is actually wet your paper first and then use the markers to draw onto the wet paper- you get a pretty bleed very similar to a watercolor bloom. I like to use this technique to create real loose, watery background that I draw on over the top of. And last, one of my favorite ways to use those markers is when they begin to dry out! I remove the ink and drop it into a small jar of water overnight. The ink will seep into the water and you are left with a liquid watercolors! I add this to spray bottles and misters and use them in my mixed media backgrounds. TIP: You can even add the ink to rubbing alcohol to create your homemade alcohol inks! There you go! I hope I have convinced a few of you that kid's markers are GREAT supply for adults!
2014 Technique Calendar April Wet & Wild O.k...keep your clothes on...it's far too cold in Indiana to be thinkin' about the beach BUT April in Indiana is wet...VERY wet! You know the old saying April Showers bring May Flowers...well it's very true here as I'm sure it is for much of the country here in the US. So I was experimenting with some ways to create a wet rainy showery look for April's calendar tag and I think I've come up with something pretty cool looking. Supplies: Re-Inker (2-3 colors) Water - lots of water Tag Glitter (optional) Embellishments (to finish your calendar page off) Instructions: 1. Start off by saturating the tag with lots of water....you can see from the photo it's covered. 2. Add a couple of drops of re-inker to the water. I used 3 different colors of Distress Ink. You will notice that the inks immediately begin to spread. 3. Hold the tag down and shift the tag slightly to help the inks move and flow in the water. This step will be very easy since we applied so much water in step 1. 4. Begin heating your tag to dry the inks and water quickly. As the paper begins to soak up the paper you will see your watery look come to life. Shift the inks while heating if desired. And here's what my tag looked like at this point... 5. Now it looks o.k. but we're going to give it a bit more of a rainy look. Pounce a distress ink pad onto an acrylic stamping block. The distress ink will bead up almost immediately which is exactly what you want. 6. Mist the ink with one or two pumps of water...not too much ~ we're going very sparingly with the water this time. You can see there are a few larger drops of water and lots of tiny ones... 7. Immediately press the inky stamping block onto the tag several times... 8. Heat to quickly dry these dots of ink. You can see how this second layer of ink has really added to the "water/rainy" feel. Just what we were lookin' for! 9. (optional) If you want to add a bit of sparkle to your rainy day spread a bit of Stickles or other glitter glue over the tag. Of course I did but it's totally up to you and the look you're going for. And here's my finished tag! I think I may add a bit of stickles to the girls outfits but I didn't want to wait to share it with you. O.k... a third of the way through the year... How ya doing? Are you playin' along? Are you keepin' up or am I going too fast? Hope you're stayin' inky either way :)
We got some sun last week, so I spent a bit of time outside doing some new art prints. I am a little bit giddy at how well these Wet Cyanotype prints came out. I was experimenting some more with some spray inks and love how the color remained on the prints in this set!
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Compared to western paintings, it is not always easy to express water in Chinese brush painting. Artist Lu YanShao 陆俨少 had made a special lecture on this
In this tutorial video, I teach you my FAVORITE technique in watercolor—the wet-on-wet technique. It's great for loose-style painting.
Black silhouetted figures shield themselves from the downpour of vibrantly colored inks in these drawings by Chinese and French artist Marc Allante. As
You may have seen some artists buzzing about #inktober last month. I decided to take the plunge and try doing a wet ink drawing every day. I didn’t manage...
Follow this Photoshop tutorial to create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes we’ll create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats. I was recently out at the clothes store and came across a […]
Learn how to get started with watercolor painting, step by step, using the watercolor techniques wet on wet for beginners
