In an alcohol ink mood....

As you know, I am in Karen Walker's alcohol ink landscape class. Watching the video's and the instructions gets my creativity flowing.

The first 5" x 7"' paintings I did as excercise for the course, the cityscape is a 'happy accident'. I was flowing the ink for a Tuscan landscape, but the blue pushed the other colors away. Leaving a very dark strip of color on the paper. I tried to move it around with a coffee stirrer, and made this marks. I thought it looked like a landscape, and when I turned the painting around, I love it even more. I am going to leave it as it is. The next painting is a Tuscan landscape with a magical tree. Flowed background with minor details and a detailed tree in the front.

And I also painted some anemones. I have ordered some more ink (Ranger has some lovely new colors) and I ordered a larger (A3) size YUPO paper. I have one excercise from last week (a waterfall) and one from this week I want to paint on large format. To be continued...

Alcohol ink course

This month I am taking Karen Walker's landscape class in alcohol inks. She has some marvelous classes with lots of video's, encouragement and inspiration! If you are interested in following one of her classes please  click here.

This week the focus is on Forest and Water and so far I have finished one painting. This one is from the Tropical Waterfall exercise, using an image shared by Robyn Lovelock on PaintMyPhoto http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/photo/waterfall-8.

I am now moving on to the next exercise on reflections. I have printed an image I took from a very Dutch landscape about a year ago, when I was on a painting holiday in National Park De Wieden in the Netherlands. I am very curious how it turns out in alcohol inks. To be continued....

More alcohol ink

Two more paintings with alcohol ink. The first one is for the Beginners course with Karen Walker. This week's subject is masking and lifting. The anemone was made with pouring the ink on the Yupo paper and lifting the ink with alcohol to create more shapes. I also used my Promarkers to get some more detail in the center.

 



 

And this painting was done on my new A4 Yupo paper that I bought in the Netherlands (Yippie!). Lots of pouring and letting the ink flow, with a few lifted details. I am not sure about the vase. I posted the picture on Facebook and everyone loved it, but I am still not sure...

Beginners class with Alcohol Inks

This week I started with the Alcohol inks beginners class from Karen Walker. In 3 weeks she will show us lots of techniques on how to use Alcohol Ink. The first week is all about flow and texture and we have made some really cool abstract cards.

Here are a few of the cards I made