The girls in my classes have just been exposed to the wonderful product that is Brushos. These are a highly pigmented powder that is sprinkled sparingly on watercolour card (or glossy!) and then spritzed with water to see the gorgeous colour bursts. You can of course spritz with water first and then sprinkle them on, this gives a different effect. Over the next book which starts in January 2016, we'll be visiting this product several times as there are multiple ways of playing with them. This technique of just making Brusho Backgrounds is our first foray into the Brusho world.
The most amazing thing about them is you can get multiple colours come to life from just one single colour as they are made up of multiple pigments to create the single colour. If you sprinkle then spritz just one colour, you'll see other colours (some that you least expect) randomly appearing. However, if you sprinkle some on a non-porous surface (like a piece of laminate or similar), then mix that with a wet paint brush, you'll get the single colour that is described on the bottle.
A hint... don't open these bottles, simply push a skewer into the top so you can sprinkle like a salt shaker and then plug that one hole with a Pop Rivet. Down the bottom is a picture of mine also showing how I've done a colour swatch and stuck it to the pot so you can see what you're working with.
"Simply a line"...
"Confused"...
"Mystical Qualities"...
"Essence"...
"Wanty"...
This is my box of Brushos and you can see the pop rivets in the top
and the colour swatches on the lids.
Finally, the last atc from the previous class, Embossed Stencils. Love my branch die!!!
"Nevermore"...
1 comment:
great backgrounds and like how you interpreted them.
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