Okay - I Never Claimed To Be Able To Paint...

But I wanted to see what I could do with alcohol inks and a paint brush. This is my 3-second landscape. Yeah, I know - it sucks. But the point of the exercise was to see if I could use paint brushes with alcohol inks.

It can be done! I daubed the background in, and then I put three or four colors on a dauber felt, making sure they didn't blend with one another and a few drops of blending solution on a corner of the felt by itself. I then used a tiny stiff brush and stroked in a few trees and birds and something that appears to be a path but has zero perspective. So sue me. LOL!

The entire point though, was to prove the potential of these inks. The tile below (which will be re-done) is my experiment. It's a lousy photo - too much flash,and the colors just don't show as well as they should - but you get the idea with it. This is my 3-Second Bad Landscape Tile. Yes, my work-space is a wreck, but oh well. :)

Here it is with some blending solution applied and the "path" blended out - see how easy it would be to make a rocky outcrop? I can see that as rocks after I've done a little work with it. :)

And this is with the entire image blended out and a paint brush swirled across it. The blending solution with completely remove the ink if I want to do that:

Alcohol Ink. More Alcohol Ink. Someone Stop Me Before...

Everything in my house is faux-finished with alcohol ink. So I started this table the other day. I'd already done one in browns and golds. It came out lovely. I decided to try for a marbled effect. It worked okay until I started on the apron of the table. I'm going to paint over that with white. I think the table will be lovely with just the top finished. I used Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks in Pitch Black, Rust and Gold.

I used the felt dauber and daubed around the arc of the table, constantly blending with Adirondack Blending Solution. You don't need much of it. Once I had the color on, I "marbled" simply by drizzling the Blending solution randomly across the table. Again, less is more. Do a little and see how it looks. It's very easy to get splotchy with this solution. :)

I like it. Comments are welcome. Remember, I'm painting over the "apron" of the table, which is why that appears unfinished.