Tuesday, March 19, 2019

MESSY WATERCOLOURING

It's been a while since we've used our watercolours so thought this was a good opportunity to drag them out.  I used my Gansai Tambi watercolour palette set as well as my smaller Gansai Tambi Pearl set of 6 gorgeous shimmery pearl colours.  The trick to making this look cohesive is to repeat your colours on your images that you've stamped and the best part of all.... don't worry about staying in the lines.  Like all watercolouring, if you allow the sections to dry so you are not putting wet against wet, you won't have the bleeding issue that causes the colours to blend too much.  So the heat gun is your friend in this class.  All you need then is a little quote, an embellishment and you're done!

"Live in colour"...

"The best bugs"...
(the little bugs are stamped onto pre-sanded
shrink plastic, shrunk, then an alcohol pen
was used to add colour on the back of them)

"Dig it"...

"Sparkle"...


"Original style"...
(this one has a chipboard frame mounted
around the edge that has been embossed
with black UTEE, then while hot, a few
sprinkles of gold UTEE, heated again and
then I dragged a pin through the gold while 
still hot to move it around a little)

Monday, March 4, 2019

BURNING LANDSCAPES YUPO

While we have our soldering irons out (or wood burning tools), this is another way to utilise this particular tool with alcohol inked backgrounds on Yupo.  Unfortunately, you can't see the depth in these through a computer monitor or phone.  They are very 3-dimensional, similar to the last class where we layered the pieces of holey Yupo using little pieces of dimensional foam tape.  This time I have used larger sheets of craft foam to layer the top pieces to create depth.  So you have the background, then a piece raised on 1 piece of craft foam, then a front layer also raised on another piece of craft foam.  It looks wonderful in the flesh!  Not as fiddly as the last class but still takes a little more time than just doing a normal alcohol ink background.  Because these are so spectacular in themselves, they really don't need a lot of embellishments, hence the use of a clear sticky word on each of them.  Apart from the second one, "earth", which has some Jac paper (double-sided adhesive) cloud shapes applied and then brushed with Perfect Pearls.

"Dreamscape"...

"Earth"...

"Eclipse"...

"Dramatic"...

"Picturesque"...

"Traverse"...