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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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:

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