Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Alcohol inks

Alcohol inks had to be used on all of these. I took the alcohol inks and used them in three different ways and a selection of colours. I am lucky to have a few sets (sets have 3 in each) so therefore can play around with colours more. Others are not so lucky because they cost over £10 per set!

On the 1st one i played with the inks on acetate until i was happy with the colour. Then i took a style stone and alcohol inked that with bolder colors before placing a image in the stone. From there i continued to embellish

On the 2nd i alcohol inked over piece of metal the had a raised image on it. Again i worked with the colours until i was happy. You can get a solution to remove the alcohol ink off of non pourous surfaces, and to thin down the colours etc. However a cheap and cheerful alternative is to put some vodka in a small spray bottle and it does the same job. So after applying and reapplying i decided on a look i was happy with so then went ahead and embellished it.

The 3rd one was quite different as i was applying the inks to a card slide. You get a much diferrent effect especially as it is on a pourous surface. I still played around a bit but by layering the colours or testing them out on scrap card first. I then embellished as i had done with the previous two.

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