An inky stumble in this week's rendition of Rae Missigman's 15
MINUTES OF MIXED MEDIA©
Some mornings run smoother than others; this just wasn’t one
of em!
I have learned that many artists have a love-hate
relationship with Dylusions ink spray. Many
find it challenging to get the technique down.
I mostly use them for a splash of color.
Of course, everything else in the vicinity
seems to get a splash of color as well.
I had all the supplies set out, had watched the video and
was ready to paint. I forgot one tiny important step, to
make sure each of the ink sprays worked.
Yep, the fuchsia didn’t work. But
I had already sprayed the pink and she stressed the fact that we had to spread
the ink around quickly before it dried.
Too late! Creativity screeched to
a halt. I soaked the sprayer in hot
water, tried spraying it, didn’t work. Frustrated,
I used another sprayer and this happened:
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| It doesn't show it here but my white OttLite now has a fuchsia base |
What I learned
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I can use Dylusions Inks as a wash for the
background for journal pages
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Even using gesso, they can soak through the
page. Previous work can get ruined if
not careful!
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| Ink soaked through to the back side of the page |
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| Paint Party Friday |
Well, if you hadn't told us about it going wrong I certainly wouldn't have been any wiser - it looks like a successfully lovely colourful journal page to me!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page! Great colours!
ReplyDeleteHugs Giggles
The beauty about this is that it is all part of journaling and there never is right or wrong, just pieces to discover and learn. Love your colors!
ReplyDeletepretty, pretty colors! Yes the one downfall of the vibrant inks is that they do tend to bleed thru.
ReplyDeleteLove your colors on your journal page. Great job.:) I've never used those inks.
ReplyDeleteI actually use my dip pen in them and also some times paint with them, being careful of course. Love your colors.
ReplyDeleteI tried ink spray last night - just blobs of paint - I didn't try to blend them. But I was okay with the result. You are certainly learning a lot from your explorations.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours and I'm sure you can use the pink cleverly on the other page.
ReplyDeleteSeriously your page looks great and we wouldn't know about the other stuff if you didn't tell us. The end result is all that matters and the fun along the way. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHugs Eliza & Yoda
I've only tried them a few times myself and have had mixed results with them.... still on the fence about liking them or not :-/ Your pages turned out great ♥
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