Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Technique Tags: Aquatints

I’ve been playing with my Aqua Tints by Spectrum Noir (super awesome liquid watercolours) and have been inspired by Sheena Douglass to create my own set of technique tags.  A lot of these were suggested by Sheena on her colouring DVD and YouTube channel but I have added some other techniques from here and there.  I’d like to keep adding to this page when I do more!  The tags used are Craftwork Cards Essentials Tags.

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From left to right: original colour, mixed with white (opaque goache), mixed with black (tint)

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Mica paints: mixed with silver (more silver), mixed with gold (less gold)

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Mica resist using Sheena’s stencil with gold and then washing colour over

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Pastel layers using two layers of pastel blocks allowing to dry in between layers

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Using glycerine and cut ‘n’ dry foam to blend colours

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Salt technique: add salt to wet colours and leave to dry

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Brayering: two colours added one at a time with brayer, also distress ink around edge

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Gesso surface: colour painted on top, also flicked water to create faux bleaching

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Sponging with kitchen sponge

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Cling Film wrinkles with silver

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White stamping top layer

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Marbling by dragging through colours but needs to include white

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White top layer over coloured layer

1 comment:

  1. Great idea - I really should do this to remind me how I achieved effects

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