ACRYLIC INK ACCENTS

 Some time ago I bought some watercolour drawing inks and a glass dip pen as I loved the look of the various colours of inks.  Fast forward a few months and I found a couple of artists who were using acrylic drawing inks on top of alcohol inks.  I loved the contrast between the freestyle whispy background of the alcohol inks with the more solid lines that acrylic inks can create, without messing up the alcohol ink as acrylic ink has no solvent in it.  So the base of these are all alcohol inks with accents added using black, burnt umber or red acrylic ink applied with a skewer, a stylus or simply blown with a rubber puffer to create the spiky tendrils.  Love this technique!

"Rainbow of life"

(The birds are the acrylic ink accent)

"Little bit broken"

(The black tendrils are acrylic ink)

"Dog gins"

(I used a stylus to add the drop shapes 

with red acrylic ink)

"Furry"
(The branch is burnt umber and black acrylic ink and the weird 

shape down the bottom is a striped fluffy chenille

stem that is supposed to represent a caterpillar)

"5 Second rule"

(The tree and roots are burnt umber 

acrylic ink drawn with a skewer

"Not too late"

(Black acrylic ink was drawn across in 3 sections

and then a skewer was used to pull down

sections of it to create the vertical lines)

EMBOSSED CRAYON BACKGROUNDS

These backgrounds have all been done on plain black cardstock using 3D embossing folders.  To add the colour, I have used metallic crayons from the Tim Holtz Crayon sets as well as metallic Gelatos to add a little colour to some of them.  The wet-looking areas are from lightly covering some areas with a clear embossing ink pad, then sprinkling UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) over and flicking off the excess so you get an imperfect coverage. "Tears"

"Full of terrors"

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"Strange smell"(I ummed and ahhhed about this one, but itjust needed to have the hatchet 😏)

"The heart"

"A different path"