Tuesday, September 12, 2023

FLAT BRUSH WATERCOLOUR & SPECIALTY PENS

 I've been having a play with a small flat brush with my watercolour paints and I thought I'd combine a few different products to add a little extra something to my atc's. For the colouring, I used Paul Ruben watercolours, the black fine line drawing on some of these samples was a combination of a Uni-Ball Signo DX 0.28 extra fine gel pen and a Pilot G-Tec-C4 black gel pen. The Pilot G-Tec-C4  bleeds when wet so you get a smudged effect when drawn through wet watercolour. I also used my Lisilinka Watercolour Paints, which are so wonderfully sparkly and my new set of Pentel Hybrid Dual Metallic Gel Pens which are also full of sparkle, much more than any other glitter gel pen I've used. 
The technique to do these flowers can be found here on Youtube, by the very talented Maremi Simplecraft.

"Be-leaf"
(The background was created with a flat brush
while the leaves were done with a #4 round brush.)


"Fake people"


"Live in the moment"
(These stems were drawn with the Uni-Ball
Signo DX extra fine gel pen.)


"The hum of bees"

"The good stuff"
(This frond shape was also done using the
flat brush while the silver line drawing on
it was created with the Pentel Dual Hybrid gel pens.)


"Cat Lady"
(These stems were drawn with the Pilot G-Tec-C4
gel pen and you can see the bleeding where they were
drawn through the wet watercolour on the vase.)


This next one is a card I made using the same
technique to create the flower and Lisilinka
Watercolour paints to do the sparkly lines
radiating out from the centre. These watercolours
can't be appreciated unless you see them in person.
They are spectacular!


Another card using the same technique but I couldn't
resist adding extra bits to this one so it's much
more busy than the others.


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