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1. Introduction: Flowers are some of
my favorite things to be creative with. I love to photograph them. I love to do them
in some of my art. I'm Denise Love and I'm an
artist and photographer. Today, I'm going to show you a really easy peddle
technique in alcohol ink. I think you're
really going to get excited about how
beautiful this turnout. I've got one right here. It's very abstract-ish. It's not exactly
one type of flower, but it could be a coneflower, it could be a black-eyed Susan, could be several
different things. We could center the
mass of the flower, and go out on the
whole piece of paper, and imply sunflowers and dahlias and different
things like that. I hope you're going to enjoy
how easy and beautiful this peddle technique is that we're going to create in class. We'll do a couple of
projects and a couple of different colors just
to get you going. I cannot wait to see what you create after
learning this technique. Come back and share
those with me. Let's get started.
2. Class Project: Your class project today is to come back and share one of the flowers that you
created from any of the projects that
we did in class. I can't wait to see
what colors you chose and what it is that
you ended up creating. I can't wait to
see those so come back and share those with me. Let's get started.
3. Supplies & Safety: Let's go over the supplies
I'll be using in this class. Now, I'm going to use
this as a supplies and basics of safety
class real quick, because I went in
depth on a lot of things in my alcohol inks, the basics of creating
wispy abstracts class and I don't want
to go as in depth if you've already
watched that class so that is a class on your list. Go back and watch some of those for a little more
in-depth information. In this class, I'm going to
be using some alcohol inks, I've got some of the
Adirondack by Tim Holtz and some of the Copic
Various ink colors. I like using both brands. I do like the Copic because there's a whole lot more
ink in these containers and there's over 300 colors. I do love the Copic
for that reason. These are just as fine also, it's just not as many
colors but trust me, there are still a lot of colors. These you can get just about
anywhere that sells inks. These you usually
get at the art store and they fill up
these Copic markers, they're marker refills. This is an alcohol ink marker and so that's the ink refills and you can refill
that pen 13 times. You can see that's a
lot of ink in there. You might just go look at
the local binders or blick and just see what colors do
they have that you might love. I'm going to be using some ink. Also absolutely love the Jacquard Pinata
rich gold metallic. Out of all of the metallics, this is my favorite and
it's the one I recommend. Pinata rich gold. There is a silver, it doesn't quite do the same. There are some gold
and silver and like a pearl color Mixatives in the Tim Holtz Adirondacks and you might give
those a try out. They are completely
different look and feel than the Pinata one, but this one is really vibrant
aspects of the metallic that sits on top or the other blends in
a bit or sinks down. My very favorite, I
recommend that one. I also have a
little mini mister, so some type of small mister that you can put alcohol
in because this is good for spritzing the
top of your piece and adding some yummy circles and bubbles in that
alcohol, so that's fun. With that, I have like a little bitty funnel
to put that alcohol in. I'll also have some
isopropyl alcohol, I use the 91 percent. You can use 91-99 percent but 91 is commonly
what you can use. I get at the grocery store
and this goes a long way. I've had this for quite awhile. You don't want to get really any less than that 91 percent because I know they make
something that's in like the '70s and stuff like that, but that's got a lot
of filler in it and the pure of the
alcohol is the better, so try to go for the 91 or
higher isopropyl alcohol. Then I also have
another container that I put that alcohol there and I really like this
fine line applicator with a standard tip for spreading
the alcohol around my pieces I'm working because this
nice tip at the top gives me a lot of control over how much alcohol and
where I'm putting it, versus this other one which is a little less exact
and a lot more alcohol. I do like this final
line applicator. Then if you want to make
any of your own colors because you can dilute these Copic Various ink ones in your own little
container here, these are vape containers
for the vape liquids but I like them
because they've got this nice metal tip just like
my fine line applicators. If you've got these and
not this other one, use that, that's fine. You can put alcohol in there
and spread that just fine and you put alcohol in here and just a squirt of this ink and get different colors
and tonalities of the ink. If you want to mix
up some of those and have them thinner
than the strongest ink, you can and you can
mix your own colors. If you've got two colors
you want to mix together, this is how you
can make your own. Then I just put a
piece of tape on there and the colors that I
put in that bottle. Just tons of options that you can do there
with the alcohols. I'm also using something
to spread the air away and you can definitely
use something like a straw or hand blower. The thing that's got
like the layer pump on the end of it that you
pump with your hand but both of those are
very labor-intensive and you might pass out
blowing this straw. My very favorite air blower
is my master airbrush kit and this is cold air
and it just lets me control as much air coming
out of there as I want. Then also my Revlon air dryer and this is one of
those that has a brush that goes on the top of here and it blows air
at the same time that you're styling your hair. This one is the Revlon
and it's a 500 watt. Here's the box for what that is, but you see it's got
this piece at the top. You just leave that off, it comes in the box with two
of those in different sizes and you just want
the base of that. This is fantastic for
blowing air and drying ink and I use it on a cool setting, so it won't melt the paper and it won't do the
fumes for the alcohol, one of my favorite tools. Between these two,
I'm going to be using both of these in class. They do a little bit
different thing, so definitely going
to play with those. Then the paper that
I'm going to be using and you may have heard of
mineral paper, YUPO paper but I'm going to be using
NARA paper, N-A-R-A. What I like about the
NARA alcohol ink paper is it is non-staining paper. When I use the NARA versus the YUPO versus
the mineral paper, here's some samples I
did in that other class, the NARA paper when I wipe
stuff off of it does not stain, whereas the mineral
paper is very staining and the YUPO paper
you can see a stain. I'm not able to wipe the ink off and reuse the paper
basically over and over again if I want to
create something new, or I can wipe away spots and drips that ended up on
the wrong part of my paper. I can clean it up
over and over again with a little bit of
alcohol and shop towel and just clean it off
and it does not stain. This paper is magical
and the reason why is because now you just
need one pack of paper and you can use each
piece 100 times. You just clean it
off and use it again until you perfect
your techniques and you're getting pieces
that you love every time, this is the best way
to have no waste and you can practice to
your heart's content. This is my very
favorite paper to use and it is the NARA
paper, N-A-R-A. I also have some shop
towels available. No lint towels is
what you want to use. You don't end up putting lint
all in your ink if it's wet. You're also want to be using some gloves to keep the
alcohol off your skin, you don't want to have
a bunch of alcohol just sitting and
soaking into your skin. To finish off your pieces, you'll see many different
places recommend doing a coat. Several thin coats
of the Kamar varnish or any water-based varnish. You don't want to
alcohol-based varnish because alcohol ignites
alcohol but a regular varnish, non-yellowing, something
that's good for watercolors and stuff like that is fine. Alcohol ink is not color fast, so you'll need to
be using something like a UV protectant spray
on top of this varnish. I've seen several things
that say don't put the UV directly onto
the alcohol piece, but this one is a UV
archival varnish. I think you'd be okay using just the varnish but what
I would do if I were you, whatever you choose
to use needs to have some UV archival
properties because the UV is what's going to help preserve that color
on that alcohol ink, but just sitting it out in the sunlight is going to let
that color just fade away. The UV protects that but do some little tiny sample
junk pieces just to see what it is that you want
to finish your piece with, or you can just frame
the piece under UV glass and that would be fine. For safety purposes alcohol
has a lot of fumes, I want you to be
working in an area that has a lot of
airflow or outside or in a somewhere where
you have a door open and maybe you could
sit by the door. I am sitting in a room
with my camera set up so I need to have
some airflow going and so I have a fan
sitting on my desk that I have turned on when
I'm working with inks and a fan on the window
that has two little rotors and it pulls the air out. It's like a constant
airflow moving across my table and
out the window, and that is what makes me
able to use alcohol inks for several hours at a time rather than just a
few minutes because, alcohol inks effect you
whether you know it or not, you don't want to breathe this and have it in your lungs
for any length of time. If you ever are
working with inks or anything art supply
related that has fumes, maybe you realize it
or maybe you don't, if you ever start
getting a headache, that is a big red flag that
you're being affected by the fumes of whatever
you're working with and if I don't work
with the fans on, I get a headache within
about 30 minutes. If I have the fans
on blowing across, I can sit here for hours and
it doesn't bother me at all. It really does make
a big difference. My airflow system is about
as cheap as it gets. I think the fan on
the window is $20, the fan on the table
was maybe 10 or $15. Not very expensive at all
and it works amazingly. I think I've covered all
the major supplies that we're going to be
using in class today, so let's get started.
4. Air Blower Demo: Let's talk about using our two different blowers
that I recommend for class. I've just got a
piece of paper here. I've got a little shop
towel underneath it that I can catch
any runoff alcohol. It makes it easy. It's just sitting on a piece
of cardboard so that it's easy for me to just move around rather than
touching the paper. If you have any spots on
the paper that repel ink, that might be where
you've touched the paper and so you've put oils on the paper that
might repel the ink. So if you think
you've been touching the paper overly much, take a little bit of alcohol
and your shop towel and just skim that and wipe it clean and let it dry and then
you're ready to use that. Then hopefully, you
haven't eliminated any of those alcohol issues
that you might run into. What I'm going to do
is use my air gun and I'll show you
just real quick in this demo video how I use this. I'm also going to use my
air blower, my air dryer. When I'm using my air dryer, it puts out a lot of air
and you don't want to come down directly on a
piece of the ink. Just to give you an example, maybe I'll put a
little ink down. Maybe I'll put a
little alcohol and then let's turn this
on to cool only. Got to plug it in. See if I put it right on top, I'm spreading the
alcohol with no control whatsoever of how that
alcohol is being used. That is not how we want
to use the air dryer. What we want to do, is put a little ink down, maybe your alcohol down and
then we can start to control that by holding this straight
up and coming around. You want to be straight down
on the paper beside the ink, I am about a half-inch
from the paper, when I'm doing that. I want to just work my
way around the piece. I'm not right on top of the ink and that's
how I'm going to control and manipulate and dry a little faster that
ink as we're going. That is how I'm going to
be using this straight up, not at an angle, not
right on top of my ink. The other thing that I'm
going to be using is my air gun and we can put a little ink on
here, little alcohol. Basically, what we're going to do is we can control the ink with this and I can also
spread the ink down my paper. You can see as I'm going there, I can create some ripples and some lines and some light
and dark and some movement. I'm going to be using it
as a pusher of the inks, maybe pushing it off
of the paper possibly. Those are my two favorite
air-blowing things for these techniques and the way
that I'm mostly using it. What I really like about
the master airbrush is, I can control the amount of
air coming through and I can push stuff down the paper
for petals as I need to. At the time I'm going
to be using the brushes today in class.
5. Cleaning Off Used Nara Paper: Let's talk about cleaning
off our paper really quick since I've got a good
example right here that we could clean off. Basically, all you have to do is spread a
little alcohol over the piece that you don't like or the whole paper if you're wanting to clean
the whole paper off. Then you can wipe
off that alcohol, come back for any
little straggling color with a little extra alcohol. Clean spot on your towel. We can just clean
that right off. This red is leaving streaks where I'm getting it
on my clock here. One last little thing
to get the red off, but you can see now my
paper is completely clean. Now before I use this
paper for another project, I want to let that
alcohol go ahead and evaporate and
dry really well. Give it a minute. You can even run your hairdryer across it on the cool
setting just to make sure it's dry before you
add more ink on top. You can basically, if you
are careful with your paper, you can basically clean
this paper off 100 times and just keep on using it
until you've perfected all of your techniques
and you're like, getting great stuff now. You know why you're in
your practice phase, learning and figuring it out. This paper is amazing
because it doesn't stain and you can clean it off
as many times as you need. I do particularly love
that aspect about this. NARA paper is my favorite and that's how we clean it off. I'll see you back in class.
6. Half Flower: In this video, let's create a really
pretty flower that's got a head and some flowy
petals and start there. In the basics of wispy abstracts that
class that I created, I created a really beautiful
accidental flower basically. I just want to go
ahead and recreate that flower here
for us in class. I started with a circle and then we're going to let
that circle dry and then we're going to
apply some ink and some gold and some
alcohol and run those to the edges until we get the shape that
we're looking for. I'm just going to go ahead and we're going
to do an ink center. If we're working on one
side of the paper because I have fans going,
I might go ahead and just clip this paper down on one side to help me control the wind blowing
because I seem to have all air going through, obviously here
with my fan going. We might just take a
little bulldog clip and secure that side so that I'm not fighting the whole paper as
the fan goes across here. You're going to
move fairly fast. I don't want you to get
into a super big hurry, but you do want
to move fast when you're working with these
inks and stuff like this. I'm going to put a dot of ink, a little bit of the gold. We're going to put
the alcohol and drag the alcohol out in the direction that
we're wanting to go. Then we can now take this air gun and blow our ink off to
the edge of the paper. You see why having a towel
under here is super handy. Now we can do that
coming all the way around until we're like, I want to do like half a flower. That's the one that I loved
so much that we created. Little bit alcohol, a little bit of gold,
a little bit of ink, and then push that off in the direction
that we want to go. Here's one reason why I showed you how to
clean your paper off. Because now I've got
some ink down here. If I were working on mineral
paper or YUPO paper, that would be a problem
because now I'd be like, I didn't want that
ink down there. But because I'm working
with Nor paper, I can put a little bit of ink on a Q-tip or on a corner
here of my towel. I can now come back and
control where that ink stops. Working with a Q-tip
might be the way to go. I need to get some of those out. I just sit here randomly
doing things and I'm like, this would be a good idea. I need to do that. I just happen to think a
Q-tip would be a great idea. Then we can just keep on going. Have as many stripes in that
one as I would have wanted. I think I'm going to
come back right here, a little bit of gold. I'm going to run this alcohol
right out here to this. It got the paper
lifted a little. I'm going to go ahead and
just run that and get me some variation there
on these petals. You got to be real careful, look what I just
did right there. In this case, I could either put some more alcohol on top
and run it that way. I could take my
towel and clean off that edge if I thought
no, it's ruined. Be real careful
when you're putting your alcohol on here
where it's dripping. Let's just run some
alcohol this way. Then we'll see if we can correct that before I decide
to remove it. See? We took that right off
of there. Look how pretty. I'm okay if there's some
random variations in there, that's okay. Run these down this way. You see how I use that just to direct those petals exactly
where I want them to go? Then once you get the petals how you're
thinking that you like them, you get this little bit
of red up here off. Once you're thinking that, okay, I like the way that's going, we can now work on the center or we can draw on top of there. I'm wanting to make it
a little more round. I don't want it to
really move any further and because
the ink is dry, it might help me not push that any further
than I want it to go. Could help it a little here. Now, once that's dry, we can come back with some ink. You want something that's
not alcohol-based. If I continue adding
the alcohol ink on top, I risk the alcohol spreading out and making weird patterns. That is one choice. Another choice is
to come back with a water-based something
on top of that. That could be something
like my Posca pen and gold. That could be something like
my Kuretake gold mica paste. I tend to love the gold
mica paste the best, and I've used that with
a dip pen and just dip that ink and create some
dots for the head there. That's my own preference. I've got a little scrap
piece of paper that I can test out and
get things started. Then I can draw right on top of the alcohol ink because I'm using something that's water-based
and not alcohol-based. Anything alcohol-based,
if you came back with, say, some of those Copic
pens on top of this, they would make that alcohol
reactivate and start to run. The goal here is
not to reactivate the ink after I've got it set where I want
it, for instance. She's pretty. I'll call it
a girl because it's pretty. Then I could just if I wanted, I could add some pretty
little gold details down the petals. If
I end up with say, one spot, that has appeared, maybe some alcohol blood
back up from my paper. I could always just trim
the paper right there. I don't always have to keep the whole piece of
ink or art or whatever. Once you get it to
where you're like, I like that, don't be tempted
to keep working on it. If you have a piece that you don't love or a
spot that appears, just cut that paper down. I have a favorite
little paper cutter. Instead of working it
even further because now it actually is to a point
that I absolutely love it, just cut the piece off that's
not doing what you want. Started a little further out. With something like this, if I left a lot of white space. That's really cool if you
want to use it as a card, or we could trim it in
tighter and just have that as a little bit
taller piece of art, which I'm feeling like I want. Let's just trim that
a little tighter. I love cutting up art doesn't bother me a bit. Look at that. Look at that super
beautiful finished piece of flower with some yummy
petals that splay out. This is actually really pretty
either way. Look at that. See, now, I feel like the flower is looking up towards the light. I love the bits of golden there that shine with what we used. Super fun first technique. I'd love to see your
modified looking, we'll call it a
cone flower because that's what it reminds me of. I'll see you back in class.
7. Cone Flower: In this flower, let's go ahead and do
a different type of coneflower than we did
in that first one. I think you're really
going to love this. I'm using some pitch
black in the Adirondacks, some current, and some eggplant. I do have the gold
sitting out here, but I don't think I'm
going to use the gold, but I could use the gold, but I don't think I'm
going to, for this, I'm going to do like the
little head of a coneflower. What I like about the black
is it sits where I put it. That's not true 100
percent of the time, but it's true this time. I can drop a little bit of this current just to drop or so. I could also drop a drop
or so of this eggplant, change the shape a tiny
bit, but that's okay. Then go ahead and get
that ink pretty dry. The dryer it is, the wispier our design
will be when we're done. I've got my fine line
of applicator here. I'm just going to drop little tiny drops of alcohol into my ink and
then I'm going to run that ink off the paper and
that's going to create those pretty little cone
flower petals for us. But you want that ink to be
dry so that it just activates a little bit and gives us really beautiful petals
coming off of there. The property that is now we may not have that
when we're done, but we got that one we start. Just depending on how
you create your piece, that could be your petal
that you end up with. Usually, what I do is
I'll do a row and then come a little further up on
that head and do another row. It's in a layers. But don't be scared to
stop when it's pretty. If you're like, whoa beautiful, let's keep that one and
move to the next thing. Go ahead, one little drop. Let it activate a little bit of that ink and then
blow that right-off. Look at how gorgeous that is. I'm moving around
to the dry parts of the paper and then just running the ink all
the way off the edge. I did try to center
that quite a bit. So pretty. Then I might come a little
further up on the head of the center head thing that we created to get a
little more color coming down. I don't want it to
sit on the black ink so long that it creates a hole. I want to set it there and let
it pick up a little bit of ink and then run that off
really as quick as I can. I'm running it where I have a few
little rough edges on the ink there itself, that does not bother me. If it bothers you, just practice
your technique until you get the little technique
going that you love. But I love that. It does not bother me at
all to see the little edge. Do some fun, scrappy
little things, and give me a little more
organically field to my flower. You don't have to be, I don't want everything to be perfect. I want it to be interesting. One little drop and
then run that off. You see, we dropped in the currant and the
eggplant in that block. You can see those undertones coming out in our piece here. Just beautiful. You could try that
with any color really, you could try the black with any color that you
happen to love. I'm thinking, cone flowers generally are pinky
purply and the shades, but, you know, play with that
and see what you can get. Now that is beautiful. That's really
beautiful right there. What I might do
is take the edge, let me grab my towels, I tear several when I start. At some point, I've used a lot of those. I'm going to clean up
what's on top and then see, do I like it right there? Because look at how
beautiful that is. We're at a really
beautiful point there. Rather than put the
alcohol on the paper, I think I'm going to put it on my shop towel so that I hopefully don't drip
it in the wrong place. I'm just going to
come through in the little spots that were at the very top from
when I put the stuff on here. I'm going to go ahead
and get that off. If you're spreading
more ink on the paper, it does come right
back off your towels. Just make sure you're using
a clean spot each time. I'm seeing now that's
beautiful and I don't even care that the flower part
is not perfectly round. If we come back in
here with some gold, that'll be like
the little stamens on the top of our flower. Could leave it just
like that though. It's awfully
beautiful, isn't it? It looks too like a Black Eyed Susan with
the shape of that head. We could call this cone
flower or Black Eyed Susan. Really you could
come back with say, some shade of yellow for Black Eyed Susan,
those would be pretty. I'm just running
a little tiny bit of gold down the edges. Just for pretend that's like a little bit of gold
pollen or something. Just because it's
pretty, it's whimsical. Look at the most beautiful
flower, oh my goodness. I guess so excited when something works out good. Look at how pretty that
is and a little bit of gold sparkle and we'll
let the ink dry. Then we can look
and see is there anything we want to clean up? Do we want to, at this
point you can decide, do you want to pull any
of these petals back in? But I almost like
it just like it is. You could also decide, did you want to have
some type of stem coming out of there? Think guy. I don't know, if I
wanted to stem or not, so I might not put
a stem in this, but I could come
back with a stem, maybe even in the
gold if I wanted to. But I like it like it is. I can pretend the stem is one of these lighter pieces like
this one right here. Looks like the stem to me, it's just very light. Maybe I'm going to
let that be the stem. I want you to give this
technique a try, do a head. Let the head dry. Tiny drops of ink that
you're then running to the edges with your
air gun or straw or a little hand blower depending on what
you have and just run those petals out
to the edge like that. Then look at our
gorgeous coneflower. Definitely try lots
of different colors. Start off with that little
bit of black and dip into colors on top of that and you'll just get those undertones. So beautiful. I'll see you in class.
8. Full Page Flower: [MUSIC] In this project, let's create something
that looks a bit like a sunflower splaying out. I want to use some sandal and a little bit of
that terracotta because I like that reddish oranges, yellow-y look, you can
get in some sunflowers. I think what I'm
going to do is try to create some type of circle. What I might do is use
the end of my paintbrush to help me manipulate
that shape. That might be something that you consider with your cone flowers, manipulate the shape with
the edge of a brush. These splay out quite a bit
more than the black does but we can still manipulate the shape if we want like this. Just take the end of
the paintbrush and just manipulate it so that it's the exact shape that
you really wanted. If you get any drops
outside, not a big deal. Because remember,
we can go back and clean that up in just a moment. I do want a nice amount
of ink out there. I might just drop a little more of each of these two
in the center of that. Then help that dry
with my heat gun. [NOISE] It does work
better if the ink is dry. That's why I do try to
get that nice and dry. Then I'm just going to put
a little bit alcohol here on my towel and clean up an edge or two there because I don't want those
drops in there. Be careful when you're
dropping out alcohol that you're not dropping it out
right on top of your piece. You don't know how many
times I've dribbled alcohol out and thought,
"Shoot." [LAUGHTER] We can come back in here with some goal
as we're working too, but I really just want to see
if we can get pure flower. I'm going to be using
my blower again. Instead of just a drop, I'm going to run the alcohol
out to the edges and just see what we can
get by doing that. I'm going to do a drop, but I'm also going to
run it out to the edge. Then run that pedal
out that way. I will have some alcohol
buildup on the edge. I can just wash that off
onto my towel if I need to. [NOISE] Then we can come back and work on
the center at the end if we feel like we need some
stuff in the center again. [NOISE] I want to see what
we can get running this out. Just what will that end
up like? Let's just see. [NOISE] It's a little bit like
our coneflower technique, but really refining it a little differently
for a different flower. It might just look like
a sunflower coneflower [LAUGHTER] but I don't care, it's still going to be pretty. I think we'll know it's more
of a sunflower or more of a maybe a lazy Black Eyed Susan because maybe we could
go back and make the center black
if we wanted to. [NOISE] That terracotta and that sandal
are really pretty colors. [NOISE] The longer
you let the ink sit before you start blowing it, you'll get a little more
coming off of this. You'll get a little
more of that in there. These are not super dramatic
colors to begin with. I love the softness that we're getting
coming out of there. [NOISE] Then if I'm running that real tight to it, I can get these nice
little ridges almost. It's a very interesting
pedal definition almost, we could call that. [NOISE] Then run it
out till it's dry. Then come back around
maybe for another layer. Because they're really
pretty with the more layers. [NOISE] After we've got it on there, we could come back with
a little bit of one of our inks and make
that maybe one drop. With our brush, we could
manipulate some of that. Got some other color
in my brush here. I've got white, black in there. Shoot. [LAUGHTER] Forgot I did that. That's okay though. We can come back in and
manipulate that a little bit. You got to be real
careful doing that because somehow I ended up with a couple of drops
there. That's okay but I'm thinking if I do a little splatter on
here and then maybe even some type of stamen or something
there in the middle. So I might take my little
mister from way far back. There's a tiny bit of alcohol on there and you can see it's
shown up just a little, little tiny dots that pop up. You got to be pretty far
back just for a few dots and I'm getting low on
the alcohol in here. Then it makes any
extra little dots that show up in there on purpose. I almost want a little
more alcohol in here, so I might just put
a little in here. See, that's the way to do it. Use your straight liner to put some alcohol
in your minister. That was the way to do that. [LAUGHTER] Because I feel like
I want just a couple more. Let's let that dry. That looks like it
was on purpose. Then we can come back
with either gold. I like the gold and
make some stamens. I could do that
with my posca pen, or with my dip pen, either way. I like the dip pen because
it's a much more vibrant gold. I might come back on top. Let's just take a look
at what this looks like. I think I do need that
more vibrant gold. We still got some alcohol. [NOISE] This will be really nice too. If you had the microns in some different colors
like I have micron in brown. Brown would be a really
pretty color on top of this. You could really use any
acrylic ink on top of these. I'm almost thinking
like I have a whole set of colors of acrylic ink
or I could do white, I always like white but I do have a whole set of
colors of the acrylic inks. [NOISE] I have a big fat gold too, that might be even better. That's okay. I still think some type of little
brown dots like this micron and the brown can actually have
several browns. I've got some pigma
pen in the brown. I've got this deco brush,
metallic permanent marker. This stuff is more of a
copper color than a gold, and I'm thinking, oh yeah. Then I also have some acrylic
paint pens by craft dot, which that's also
a nice little dot. If I have a little
sample out here, I could say, okay, what color are these
and how do they look? That one's more of a brown. Oh see, this one's more of
the copper coming out of here that I was
thinking might look really good with this flower. I'm thinking, this deco brush, metallic permanent marker
by Karin, K-A-R-I-N, would be some fun dots to add in between the gold just to make the top of that sunflower look like it's got some variation
and some color there. That's different. I could even come out with
some very fine dots if I'm super steady with my hand and do a light little
touch if I wanted. Oh yes, super fun. We'll dry that real quick. [NOISE] Very interesting to do a sunflower splaying
out from the middle. I will admit that the very
favorite projects are when they're maybe not all
coming out the same, I like them when
they're on one side. So I might try a sunflower
looking at it maybe from the edge blade out
to the side that way. Then let's just see if I
get anything that I like, but I'm just going to
play and practice. I'm just spit-balling
some ideas here with you. This would be center flower, splay it to the edges. Then we have our cone flowers that we also did one-sided, and so some different
composition ideas for you to think about. I'll see you back
in class. [MUSIC]
9. Final Thoughts: I hope you found today's technique super
easy and exciting and I got you excited to come up here to your art room and play with some alcohol ink and create some beautiful
abstract dish flowers. These are perfect for
something like cards, little pieces of art
that you might give out. You could do several on one
and make a larger piece. There's lots of different
things that you can do with a very pretty
flower technique. I hope you enjoyed today's technique and I can't wait to see what you
create with this. Come back and share those with me and I'll see you next time.
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Creative Educator
