I'm curious how many of you found your way here to read my blog post because you saw the title of this one. If so, welcome... I'll take readers however I can get them. And yes, I'm an alcoholic. I'm addicted to alcohol... alcohol inks that is! I love working with the inks to make backgrounds for tangling, and I love the way my pen (Sakura Microperm) glides smoothly and effortlessly across the paper. It is so soothing and relaxing!
To start, I will suggest that if you didn't already read my last post about alcohol inks from a few weeks ago, you check it out first. There I explained a bit about my process of working with the inks. Here is a picture of another tile that I love (I didn't love them all). Again I did some dripping and spreading and blowing to get this look.
Then I added my tangling, using Baton, Bask-It, and Diva Dance. I don't add shading when I tangle over the inks because I let the color form some natural shading. And I also haven't found anything that works well for me to shade on the glossy surface.
Like the one tile on my last post, this one had a very interesting back side created from the inks creeping underneath.
So, like last time, I tangled in the white space. I feel like this one needs some shading, so if any of you know what works to shade on Yupo, please let me know.
Here's another tile in a totally different color scheme.
This is how it looked after tangling. I decided to keep it pretty simple by using only one pattern, Frosty, and tangled in white this time (Signo Uniball UM 153 gel pen). What I have found, but had forgotten since I used white on alcohol ink a year ago, is that the white gel ink soaks up some of the color from the alcohol ink under it. Especially on the orange part where the white ink turned yellowish. It just adds more interest. After drawing Frosty all over I felt like it needed just a little something, so I added auras inside each of the shapes, using my black pen.
I hope you enjoyed seeing some more of my alcohol ink tangling, because I have lots more tiles ready and waiting. I'll be back!
Caren, I'll have to admit, your blog title drew me in when I opened my gmail this morning! I do love the look of the alcohol inks - and I would love to experiment, but...I have decided that, as a tangler with absolutely no art background and thus no experience with, or real understanding of, the beautiful pens, pencils and paints I have already indulged in, I am only going to admire, from the sidelines, new techniques that someone else does beautifully!!! Therefore, I love and admire your alcohol ink works!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing them, keep sharing them and show us the ones you don't like, because some of us will! (Just a thought, would you ever consider sharing some of these, with a watermark perhaps, so we can print them out and work on them ourselves - needs more consideration but the idea popped into my head just now).
I am going back to my watercolour markers, watercolour pencils and the myriad other to-die-for art supplies, and I am going to continue to follow your blog to delight my eye and feed my inspiration!
Jakki
I have been trying to draw Frosty, I'm losing my Zen Cool!
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Thanks Jakki. Interesting thought to print them...I'll give that some thought. As for Frosty, it didn't give me any problem, but my feeling is that if a tangle gives me stress, then it's not a tangle I use!
DeleteLOL! that was a great title! I thought, "WHAT?! This is an interesting way to break the news!" :)
ReplyDeleteYou are doing amazing work, btw. I haven't tangled in quite a while but I love following your progress! xx
DeleteThanks Grace!
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