Alcohol Ink After Party - Paint a Vase with Flowers in Your Sketchbook

1. Intro: A. This class, you will learn how to use alcohol inks to paint a whimsical flower vase with flowers in your sketchbook. Hello, beautiful. My name is Trena Brannon. I have a passion for color and a passion for helping others. That's why I'm excited to be teaching here on SkillShare. I have many identities. Among them, I'm a children's book Illustrator, a surface designer, and I license my artwork. I'm a multi facetst artist. I did traditional art and digital creating. I am also a founding contributor to the Alcohol Ink Art Society. I just love coloring. My favorite art supplies are the ones I have in my hand. In this class, I'll have alcohol inks in my hand along with a few other tools. This after party is targeted towards those of you who like vivid colors and want to create a vase with flowers. If you have never used the alcohol inks before, I recommend you watch the Alcohol Ink Party intro to alcohol inks class here on SkillShare. But, you don't have to go to the party first. You can come straight to the After party. I will cover the basics of alcohol inks. In class, I will cover how to safely use the inks and what to be aware of, how to prepare your sketchbook to receive the inks, how to add layers, detail, and texture to your art piece using the inks. The techniques can be applied to any subject or composition. Creating vibrant and interesting work with alcohol inks is easy and fun. For the class project, you will paint a vase with flowers in your sketchbook. Or you can use a piece of paper if you choose. If you've taken any of my classes, you know I recommend a smaller size, such as a greeting card or in this case, a sketchbook page for a few reasons. Practicing the techniques you will learn in class on a small surface gives you the opportunity to get to know the technique on a smaller scale, which you can then apply to a larger scale. The techniques I'm showing you can be used on other surfaces that play well with the inks, like metal and glass. I think you'll find the class to be fun and relaxing. You can use your new skills for any subject matter for just met or to create lovely artwork to hang in your home, give as a gift to others, or even sell. When you participate in class, you will see how easy and fun it is to create with these simple techniques. You'll get to experience how the inks blend and dance around together, and each vase with flowers will be unique. I encourage you to use these techniques in your own style. It will be interesting and inspiring to see what everyone is making. So let's get started. I'll see you in the Alcohol Ink After Party. Up next, we'll talk about the project. See you there. 2. Your Project: Hello, I'm glad you're here. And this project video we'll talk about your project. The lessons are for a whimsical stylized design. Of course, please use the techniques to follow along with me or paint in a style that makes you happy. For your painting, you'll need a sketchbook. You can also use paper or card style. I'll go over all the supplies I use in detail in the next video. You can choose whatever size that you want to work on. Regardless of the size of paper, the techniques will be the same. I recommend something smaller or equal to an eight by ten just so you get to use the techniques. But if you feel comfortable with a larger size, please feel free to use that. I'll review the supplies I used in the safety and supplies lesson. Please let me know if you have any questions in the discussion section of the class, and please share your progress and your project in the project section of the class. It will be interesting and fun to see all the different styles of vases that people create. In the next video, we are going to talk about safety and supplies. See you there. 3. Supplies & Safety: In this video, I'm going to talk to you about supplies I used. Now, in general, let me just say that don't feel like you have to have the same brand names that I have to use. So I am showing you the ones that I use, but if you just have something similar, you'll be fine. With alcohol inks, they can sometimes have a strong smell. So you'll want to make sure that you're working in a well ventilated area. With the window cracked or a fan or some open space, you want to protect your work surface, so you want to have something laid down there to catch the inks. You may want to protect your skin if you have sensitive skin or you don't want to get the inks stained on your hands and you want to protect your clothes. You'll want to wear old clothes or wear an apron to cover your clothes. For the actual painting, you'll need some type of sketchbook or paper. I have here a mixed media sketchbook that I actually had cut in half at my office supply store so that I could have a smaller size. The paper doesn't have to be really thick because we're actually going to put a layer of gesso over it. If you have a very thin paper, you'll want to use two coats of gesso. You also need some isoprofle alcohol. I use 91% because I like the way that the inks behave with the percentage. What I found is the higher percentage you have, the more flexibility you have and the better the inks flow. But if you can only find 70% in your area, you can still do this technique. It may just look a little bit different than what you see me doing. You'll need a few paint brushes. One for your gesso, I used a larger one to paint the page and then two smaller ones depending on the size of your painting. As you will see, my painting is relatively small, so I'm using a very small one for detailed and a medium size brush. You'll also need a pencil. If you want to do your drawing and pencil first, if you want to go straight in and paint, you can do that too. For the last technique that I do, I use a black pen, a permanent pen that has a tip that allows you to get thick and thin lines for the technique that I do. But if you have any black pen, sharpie, any permanent black pen, you can still do that same step. Of course, you'll need alcohol inks. I use two type Ranger and pinata. I'll take a picture of all the colors that I've used, but of course, use the colors that make you happy and some type of palette. For this technique, you're actually going to drip the inks on a palette. It can be a flat piece of plastic or one that has wells. The nice thing about this one that has wells is you can save your palette and reuse it. I have a couple of these where sometimes I just create a whole painting from the palette. I don't even need to drop new ink. In the next video, we will get started in our sketchbook. See you there. 4. Prepare the Page and Draw: In this video, we will prepare the page and drawing vase and flowers. So I am all set here with my journal. I am in a room that is well ventilated. I have my hands protected, my work surface protected, and I am ready to get started. So to prepare my journal, and this is a mixed media journal. Pages aren't real thick, but they're nice quality. I applied gesso we have the paint brush. And for my background, I like a lot of movement. Well, in general, in my art, I like a lot of movement. So I applied the gesso in a kind of a criss cross mismatch type of method because I like all that texture in my background. If you want a smooth texture, then what you can do is water down your gesso a little bit and use very light strokes across your page. So that you can smooth out the lines. You can even use a sponge to apply your gesso for a smoother look. I let my gesso dry overnight because I wanted to make sure that it was completely dry before I go to the next step. I am going to use a pencil to draw in my vase. I'm only going to use probably half of this page and just make a smaller drawing and eventually I may make another drawing over here. But my size that I chose is basically in a square format. So for drawing a vase, I'm just going from the kind of shape vase that I like. You can look on line and find a reference for whatever type shape that you like. But basically, I like the thinner neck at the top and then around base. So I'm making the bottom flat and then I'm drawing a horizontal line to help identify where my table is going to be. Next, I want to put in my flowers. For the flowers, I did get some reference images from Unsplash, and these are going to be very whimsical flowers. I'm not trying to draw realistically. I'm just trying to draw some fun flowers. First, I'm going to add some stems, where the flowers may be coming out, and then I'm just going to use my reference to get an idea on some shapes of flowers. No real flower probably looks like this. But in my mind, this is flower I like. I'd also like to do flowers that overlap. It gives some interest to my piece. I'm not worried about if the drawing isn't perfect because I'm going to cover that up with alcohol ink. I just finish putting in some flowers and then add details later with the alcohol inks. That is the drawing, and now we are ready to add some color. And the next video will block in color. See you in the next video. 5. Add the Base Color: This video, we will add a base color to our drawing. I have decided I want a red vase. Red is just calling my name for this particular style. I can pick out some colors. With alcohol inks, I like to have more than just one straight color. I'm thinking with my red, I would like to have another warm color and pink makes me happy. I have a little palette here that I am going to drip my alcohol ink in, and then the technique we're using is to pick it up with a paintbrush and spread the color. So a tip when first starting out, you're dripping color into a palette. Save all that beautiful rich color, and what you'll end up with is something like this that has a variety of colors in it that you can re wet with alcohol to bring that color back alive. So save those palettes. I also have a small cup of rubbing alcohol here that I'm going to use like water to watercolor paint. That's what you'll do with this little Let's drip in some red. I do a little shake and always unscrew away from your artwork so you don't drip on it. That's a big tip. I'm just going to put a few drips in here. I tend to close my tops because I've had experience where I just get too excited painting and an accident is sure to happen. Then I'm going to add a little pink on the side here. The idea with this technique is not to use your alcohol ink when it's sopping wet because that's when it spreads. What you want to do is just play with it a little bit to get it into a less liquid form. It gets a little drier and then when you lay down the ink, it doesn't spread as much. You can see here, it's spreading nicely within my control on the gesso in my sketchbook. So when I want a little bit more color, I dip into my palette and just wipe it on the side a little bit to let it dry a little bit because I don't want it sopping wet because when alcohol ink is sopping wet, it loves to spread and mingle, and that is one of the features I absolutely love about the inks. I'm not getting as much pink as I want, so I am going to actually put that in its own well. Dab off my red onto a paper towel just to take some of that color off, dab into my pink and rub it along the side so it is not so sopping wet and then pull it in here. And you can see that it adds a little bit of variance to the color. I love that. I love all those streaks because I am a texture person. I love texture in my artwork, so you can experiment with how you use your paint brush in pulling the inks around to see what you like, the results that you like. I'm going to let that dry. I am going to rinse off all that red and by the way, you see this is getting dirty. Save this alcohol. You don't have to have perfectly clean alcohol, like you do water and water color. You can get enough off by dipping it in the alcohol and then wiping it on a paper towel, and you don't have to worry about getting it completely clean. Next, I am going to put in some yellow in my flowers because that is my color of choice. Feel free to follow along with me or deviate to the colors that you really like or the colors you already have. I'm also going to use a little orange. I'm going to put that in my palette because I know I'm going to want that to work with the yellow. You could also mix the yellow and red to create an orange. If you don't have an orange already. These colors blend beautifully together. I am going to rinse a little bit more because I'm going to a yellow. I'm trying to get some of that red off my paint brush. Then just like with the red and the vase, I'm going to dip into the yellow and then spread it around a little bit to let it dry a little. So I'm going to paint a few of these yellow, and I want to be careful. I dip maybe too quickly, see how fast it spreads, be sure to give it a little opportunity to not be so wet by wiping it on the side so you have more control. I got happy. The color made me happy, and I just wanted to jump in. So now I have a couple yellow flowers. I'm gonna clean that off a little bit and jump into my orange. On the side and spread and see how that spreads, I probably didn't wait long enough on the side. But with this technique, it's not that critical because I'm not doing that detailed work and flowers are organic. They're not perfect shapes. I'll do another orange and I'll try to take my time this time and not be so quick. I'm going to make this one orange. This is my first layer. Let me mention. I'm going to add some more layers and some more color. So it's not critical that I cover every pencil line up right away. And I want some pink ones. I'm going to need a little bit more pink. Color. I'm dripping that in. I'm going to pull it up on the side and just let it get a little dry so it's not as wet and dripping as when it comes out the bottle. And then the next color. Be careful when you're painting two different colors next to each other because they will mingle, just like watercolor. The color will reactivate with alcohol. You see, I went over that pink, it reactivated a little bit, because I have so much yellow on my pink brush, the yellow overpowered the pink, although it colored it a little bit, but not that much. You can get pretty close when you're using this technique and it shouldn't run because it's in a drier state. That is my first layer. And so next we will work on the next layer. I'll see you in the next video. 6. Add the Next Layer: In this video, we're going to add the next layer of inks. I've added some more color into each of the wells that were already there, and I added a white and a gold for our next layer. I'm using a smaller paint brush this time. Dip it into my alcohol and just let it sweep across the paper towel so that it's not dripping wet. I'm starting in the yellow and I'm going to pick up some color, wipe on the side because I want to add some detail into the flour for the next level. It's very subtle, but you can see that it's a little bit darker. Even though it's the same color, I'm layering. I'm just tapping around and making some swirls to give interest to the flower. And I'm going to continue around to all the yellow flowers. Okay. Then I'm going to rinse it off and go to my next color, which is the orange, which is over here. And just like with the yellow, I'm going to go in and make some swirls dipping off on the side before I go in to make sure it's not too fluid. Then to the next orange flower. During this part, I'm just relaxing and enjoying the process of putting down color and letting the inks do their thing. That's one of the reasons I love the alcohol inks is because they create such beautiful textures with very little effort. It looks like you have done a lot of detail and spent all day painting when in reality, it didn't take you that long because the alcohol inks are so helpful. Now moving on to the pink. And you'll notice with this color, it almost looks like it lifts the color. That's because of the properties in the inks. Inks that have more alcohol binder that binder in them than pigment, it will cause them to lighten other colors. So that's one thing to be aware of. So it's fun to play with the inks to just see how they mingle together, the different colors and what kind of textures and designs that you can create by just letting them play together. Okay. So now I'm finished with the flowers. I want to add some more color into my vase. I'm going to go back to the bigger brush and I'm going to pick up some red and wipe it on the side so that it's not too drippy drippy. I say that as if, you know, that's a bad thing. It's a preference thing because sometimes I do like my alcohol ink drippy, drippy. But for this technique, I am working to have a very controlled painting, and so I want them to go where I want them to go, not where they want to go. Sometime many times I love it when they go where they want to go because they create beautiful beautiful results all on their own. I'm thinking that my light is coming over here. That's why I'm making this side darker. My light is coming from the right. I'm painting another layer over here on the red. Then I'm going to use pink on the right side to make it a little bit lighter and show the variance in the vase of where the light is coming from. I'm taking a little bit of that red off and wiping it on my paper towel. Then I'm going into the pink, wiping it on the side. Then I'm going to come in with the pink. As we saw up here in the flower, it's going to lift some of that pink that's there, so it's making it really light. I went over a little bit, but I'll fix that when I do the background. That's the beautiful thing about alcohol inks is if you don't get it how you want it the first time, you just rework it. They are very forgiving medium. So I'm working that in there, and I went over a little bit further than I wanted as an example of fixing. I'm going to come back in with some red. I want to dab off a lot of that alcohol from my paint brush so that it's not too damp. Pick up the red and bring it in here. I also want to mention that I am using a light touch. I'm not pressing hard with my paintbrush. So I'm going to clean this up, and I actually want to add a little white at this point on the right. So even that's light right there with the pink, I want to add a little bit of white. And then I'm going to come back in with a little bit of red to tone that down. And I almost have kind of a dry brush gives you that dry brush effect. Going in the shape of my object, which down here, it's round. I'm just following the shape of it. And without adding any more paint, I'm just blend all that together. Okay. Now we are gonna add a little bit more texture to our flowers in the next video. See you there. 7. Add Texture to Your Flowers: In this video, we're going to add some more texture and interest to each of our flowers by using a darker shade of color. I going back to my smaller brush, I'm going to dip it in the alcohol and just wipe it on the paper towel so it's not too wet for my yellow flowers, I'm going to use a little bit of orange and go to a darker shade to add interest. I want it to be subtle. I don't want anything real staark. I'm going for subtlety. I'll move on to the next yellow flower. I hope you see how this can be relaxing and not too stressful because there's no specific fine details that you have to do. It's very loose and just relaxing. I think you could even have a glass of wine and do this and it wouldn't impact your painting at all. For the orange, I'm going to go into a little bit of red that's going to give it another level of detail. Just taking the color off the side. You just want to do this until you're satisfied. There's no specific trigger to say when it's done, it's just the results that you want. I'm going to rinse my brush off for the pink, I am actually going into the orange because that is a darker value than that pink. I don't want to go straight to the red because I feel like that would be too strong for me, but you can try it and see how you like it. You see how each layer you get a little bit more interest to your flowers. At this point, I also want to add a little pizzaz to my vase. You'll remember I said I added that gold into my palette. I'm going to add a little bit of gold. I'm going to stir this color up. Wipe it on the side a little bit. On this right side, I'm going to be careful, not add too much, but add some. I'm actually going to take my smaller paint brush, dip it into the alcohol and work this around so it's not as dark. I don't want to dripping wet though. I have to be careful. I'm re wetting the white a little bit that's coming through, and that's okay. These colors are all going to just work together just fine. A little bit more gold. It's getting a little too dry, so I'm going to add a little bit of alcohol, not dripping, so I just want it damp. I'll wipe it on my paper towel coming from after I've dipped it into the alcohol. I don't want to go straight to my painting because I still want that dry brush look. Okay. So now I believe I am ready to add a little background. So please join me in the next video. 8. Paint in the Background part1: In this video, we are going to paint the background. For my table, I want to make it on the brown side. I'm going for more of a neutral. I've used all warm colors up here in my vase and flowers, so I'm going to add a little bit of ginger on my palette and I don't have any more wells, but there's plenty of palette space. If you see my dirty palette over here, you can see I use all the spaces to mix colors. I am going to put a little bit right here. Just a little bit because this is a big brown color. I am going to paint in my table in a horizontal position, adding a little bit of brown and a little bit of orange. I mix the colors up here and then I'm just going to sweep them across getting close to my base going across. It doesn't have to be perfectly filled in. For me, I like that look. It's more of a scratchy fun result. Now, I could spread some of this color by just dipping into the alcohol, wiping it off on my towel because I don't want it too strong. When I do that, I get some variant in the color and then I just take it in that horizontal movement so that it looks like a table. If I do want a little bit more detail, what I can do is use my spalar brush. As far as making it horizontal close to the vase itself. I'm also going to put in a little shadow, I'm not going to I want to be careful not to overwork this. And that gives me my table. Now, for the background, I'm thinking I want a cool color to complement these warm colors. I am going to use a turquoise. Also, it's one of my favorite colors. All the colors are my favorite colors. I'm going to add a little bit on my palette here. I'm actually going to use my big brush for this and and I'm going to spread this a little thin because I don't want it really strong. It's a strong color. I want it more of a subtle background. So and also I want all that texture of the gesso to really show through. And as a side note, this is why I didn't color my stems yet because they are so thin. I will color them last and see how I just got some of that red, get some alcohol. I can pull that up a little bit. I can use a paper towel and pull that up. That's because of the gesso. I still have a little red, so I want to make sure I get that off my paper towel. Get that turquoise going. It will fill in nicely. Again, just like with everything else in this little piece of artwork, it does not have to be perfect. We are going for a good time and create something colorful and brings you joy. Um, So I continue just painting really loose this background. I'm going to do another pass. I know it doesn't show up much right now, but we're going to do another pass and you'll be able to see how you can build color and create a really pretty background. And so I'm getting close to the flowers but being careful not to get too close so that I pull color and also cleaning off my brush. In case I do dip into any color, I won't spread it around. So you see I'm messy and loose all away from the flower. But then when I get close to the flower, I'm moving slower. And I'm going to be moving really slow when I get close to the vase. I may even use a smaller paint brush so that I don't risk going into the color like I did just now with the flour. But I'm going to use a clean part of the paper towel to pull up some of that color. Actually, when we do the final step, those little bobos that I make you won't even notice. So now I'm going to come back in here and add some more color over here. And it's just back and forth to get that color in. And I'm going to come back in here and clean up that little area right there. I'll show you how to do that. You want to have a clean paper towel. I'm going to go to my smaller paint brush. I don't want it to be dripping wet, but I want to. Then I'm going to re wet that area and pick up color with my clean paper towel. Similar to watercolor. I is very similar to how you pick up color, fix mistakes with watercolor. I'm just going to repeat this until I can get as much color out as I can. Okay. So you see I've gotten that pretty clean. Now I'm going to go back in with the blue, the turquoise. Mmm. Mmm. 9. Paint in the Background part2: Mm. Okay, so I walked away for a while and came back and looked at my artwork, and I decided I want to add some more color in my background. So I'm going to take my large brush and wet it with alcohol and pick up some of my blue color here. I need to reactivate it 'cause it all tried. And then come in and just deepen this color. It's going to take me a few minutes and I'm just going to go around and darken this. I'm going to speed up the video a little bit so you won't have to sit through it. But basically, you see the technique that I'm using and you can hear how the paint is on the paper so you get a feel for how I'm using basically a scrubbing technique to help create this texture in the background. Okay, at this point, I just step back and look at it and see if there's any other changes I want to make. And I like how the background is looking. I like the contrast of the background with the table and the flowers. Next up, we'll add some details, the leaves and stems and a little bit of shadow on the table. See you in the next video. 10. Add Leaves and Stems: In this video, we will add some stems and leaves. Thinking about what color I want for the stems and leaves, I like this bright green. I am going to find a spot to add this on my palette. I'm taking my smaller brush for the stems. I dip it in a little bit of alcohol to dampen it. Tap off the excess and then go into my green, scribbling a little bit to get a little bit thicker paint more dry. Then I'm right handed, so I'm going to start on the left side, I'm just using my pencil lines as a guide. I can still see them a little bit and so I want to cover those up. Thinking about, I do have a flower up here, so it needs a stem. I like actually how the pencil line helps give a little bit of shadow to the inks because it's transparent. I'm just going to add now a few leaves not any particular type, just the way I like to make leaves. Kind of random and just get in that basic shape. Oops, I want to make sure that I don't have too much dripping alcohol, so I go back to my palate and just smush it around a little bit more so it dries a little bit. Because this particular color has a lot of alcohol in it relative to the pigment, you can see that it lightens the background a little bit when it mixes with the blue. It reactivates it basically and pushes some of that blue away. I'm just trying to get a balance of leaves. I'm going to further define some of them now that they've dried a little bit. I like my leaves to have a little bit of a point. One of the things I love about the alcohol inks is how they naturally create some texture without working too hard. I'm going to let that dry for a moment and think about if I want some more contrast or a little bit more definition in my leaves. And I'm back. After looking at it, I do want a little bit more contrast. So I'm going to use some blue, this dark blue indigo, and just add it to my palette next to the green. Just a little drip. Well, supposed to be a little drip, but a lot dripped out, but that's okay. I'll thin it out. I still have a little bit of green on my uh pat brush. I'm going to dip into my alcohol to get some of that color off. I think I am going to have to add some green. That was a lot. Sometimes it's hard to get just a little. When that happens when some of the color that I'm adding drips into another color I have, I don't worry about that too much. That's probably going to create some color that I'll like and can add someplace else. Since the inks mingle so well, they follow color theory very well. Oh, and I'm glad this happened, so I can tell you what to do when this happens to you is just take a paper towel and wipe that off. You can dip it in some alcohol to pull that color out. Because chances are this is going to happen, and I just pull it away off the page. Actually, this works out fine because my light is coming in on this side, so this side of the table is going to be lighter. So that was one of those happy accidents. So now I'm being mindful of my fingertips and just wiping them off with paper towel, and then I'll go back to working on my leaves. So I'm going to pull some of that color down and just paint on one side of my leaf. Then I'll go back in. I'm not going to add any more ink, but I'm just going to go back into my stems and put a little color on one side. They're very thin. But this just helps define them, add a little bit at a line on the and I like how this is turning out. This aligns with my style and how I like to paint lots of color and contrast in color and in value. So I think the only other thing I want to add is a little bit of shadow at the bottom. So I'm going to clean off this brush. And dab off the excess alcohol and go back into my brown, which is here on my palette and go on that the deeper brown, I had mixed two colors, so I go to the deeper side and just add a little bit of shadow down here ever so slightly. It's pretty dry, so I'm going to dip just gently into my alcohol so I can get a little flow going here. I feel like I don't need much more on the left side because our light is coming this way. And that's all I feel like I need a hint of the shadow. At this point, if you like your drawing, you can stop right here. I'm going to show you another variation using a black pen to outline it. 11. Add an Outline: In this video, I'm going to show you how I outline my artwork to make it pop. In this video, I'm going to show you a variation to the drawing using a black pen. This particular pen is a calligraphy pen. So when you push down on it lightly, it's a thin line. When you push down on it harder, it can give you a thick line, so you can have some variation. So one of the techniques I like to do with my artwork sometimes is to just outline it. So of course, you want to make sure that your painting is totally dry before you do this, and then you're just going to make outlines around your artwork to emphasize the different parts. This is an opportunity to add some details in addition to what you already have on the page that you use with different color paints. And so I like to go around and just add my touches to make it more of my own style and how I like to do paintings. And so I'm being mindful of the bigger areas where I can use the thick part of the marker, and then the thinner areas like the stems where I want to use the thin part of the marker. This also gives me the chance to clean up any pencil lines that still shine through that I don't like and add a little flare or extra to areas that I want to further define my leaves. Lines don't even have to be continuous. They can be broken. It's like whatever style that you like that adds your own unique touch to your painting. Now I'm using a really thick line on the left because that's where my shadow is, and a thinner line on the right side and also thick on the bottom. I just for fun. I like to add squiggles and dots to my artwork. And so that's just another way that you can make the design your own and give it a different look. And I just noticed I forgot to do a flower. So always step back and look at your artwork. In the next video, I'll share a summary of the class, and I'll also share some additional alcohol ink resources. See you there. 12. Summary: Congratulations. You have finished the class. I hope you learned some new techniques, enjoy painting, your vase and flowers, had fun and just found moments of relaxation. In the class, we covered how to safely use the inks and what to be aware of, how to prepare your sketchbook to receive the inks, how to add layers, detail and texture to your piece using the inks. The techniques can be applied to any subject or composition. Be sure to save the student handout with a summary of steps, the list of supplies with links, and additional alcohol ink resources. If there's one thing I hope you take away from the class, it's seeing how easy and fun it is to paint with the inks to paint with the inks in a sketchbook, I didn't know that when I first started using the inks. I thought I always had to use UboPaper. You can create with the inks and save them in your sketchbook. Kindly leave me a review. I appreciate knowing what you thought about the class as well as it lets others know what to expect. Also, please follow me here on SkillShare so you'll hear about my upcoming classes. If you post your work on social media, please tag me. I'd love to share your artwork with my followers. On Instagram, it's at Trena Brannon. Thank you so much for joining me. See you next time. Take care and stay positive. M.