Monday, June 2, 2008

Painting on acetate with alcohol ink




My favorite project on the Cruise with Tim Holtz was this clear photo album. I had tried my hand at painting with alcohol inks before taking the cruise. The medium to make this work is Ranger's blending solution in an aquabrush. Learning to control how much blending solution is used and the effects of the differences takes some experimentation. Tim provided us with a palette with about 6 drops of alcohol ink in each well. I real-ly liked using the palette over the butter dish lid. Having all the colors ready at my fingertips gave a different encouragement to try various colors. A deepest color is often at the top rim of the well. Colors stay liquid only about 5 seconds so the palette can be easily stored and pulled out for reuse at any time. He also provided the Koi aquabrush. I love the long thin tip for both swishing a lot of color for a background wash and for fine details. I prefer it over the aquabrush I had been using. This brush can be filled directly from the bottle and has a small cap to seal the barrel if you want to store it filled. Tim warned that water and blending solution do not mix and can deteriorate the plastic if you mix uses of your brush. The transparencies that we painted are Prima Paintables.


I am not nearly done with my album so to get back into this type of work I stamped some images in stazon ink on transparencies and painted on the opposite side. Here are my results.





13 comments:

  1. Oh my heaven and stars these are all at so gorgeous! I love love love this look! I just have a gut feeling that this is not easy! I will have to look for that water brush!

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  2. Those cards are beautiful. That was my favorite project as well and thought I had lost it in transit but it was in my daughter Heathers bag.
    I enjoy your blog and look often. Thanks

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  3. WOW !!! Those are stunning Jan. I have seen a tutorial for this technique on youtube but was not too inspired by it, your cards make me want to rush out and buy one of those koi brushes and get started right now!

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  4. Thanks for the inspirational Alcohal Ink painting you've shown here. I'll be back when I have time to read all about your Journey with Tim and read your Arty archieves.... you look very interesting!
    A Fellow Hero ArtsClub member, Erin Glee : )

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  5. Oh my, Jan! Your cards and album are beautiful! Really, really beautiful! What an inspiration!

    Thanks for sharing your wonderful art and techniques!

    Jennifer :)

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  6. oh, how clever and beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Very beautiful; definitely something I'll have to remember to try one day soon! TFS!!!

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  8. Thanks for sharing, I love my alcohol inks... I'm sure going to try this technique.

    Hope mine turn out like yours they're fab

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  9. Those are just gorgeous Jan, I am gonna to have to try but first I need an aquabrush... I really like how they look... of course you always make it look so easy!

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  10. This is so pretty Jan! I have to take note to try this in the future too.

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  11. OMG those are absolutely beautiful! I can't even pick a favorite - they're all just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to bookmark your site - you have lots of great projects!

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