VIDEO: How to Use Watercolor paint and Indian Ink on Yupo

If you watched my video last week then you would have seen that I was playing around with Yupo as one of the surfaces I was testing Distress Oxides on. It was such fun to be using the synthetic paper again, I hadn't used it for such a long time before last week, that I wanted to play with it some more. So here is another video with it and this time I am using it with watercolor paints and Indian ink and sharing the results and some tips on using it with these materials too.

I really love the textures you can get with Yupo and the way it makes the paint look bright and vivid. Have you been using ti? What materials have you tried with it and what do you enjoy doing with it? Or perhaps you haven't tried it yet? After seeing these videos do you think that you will?

I do have some other project ideas for using Yupo that I made for when I was working for Blitsy, like a resist technique to use on Yupo with watercolor and alcohol inks or the step by step for making Galaxy Art on Yupo with acrylic paint. So give them all a go and let me know how you get on, you will find my social media links below so do link me in when you share your results on social media as I would love to see them!

Scroll down for a close up picture of the texture in this project.


VIDEO: How to Use Watercolor paint and Indian Ink on Yupo




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Yupo
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Prima Marketing Watercolors (Decadent Pies)
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Winsor and Newton black indian ink (water resistant)
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Jackson's Art Raven Mop 10/0
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Round Brush Pro Arte Connoisseur 100 size 3
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Straw (drinking)

Palette

Enjoy playing with this one and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Kim


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VIDEO: Acrylic Paint Glazing And Tinted Gels and Paint Art Journal Page

I've been playing with acrylic glazing liquid this week and for my video tutorial I've used glazing in a way you might not be used to seeing it being used. Usually glazing is used in the latter stages of a painting project to shift the colour of a piece or unify and harmonise it. In my art journal page I've used it early on in the process to bring my tinted gel and paint stencil element together with the some old book page texture. I've also used it as a base to add more colour to. You can see all about it in the video and see how this page started too.

It kind of looks Autumnal doesn't it? But it was never my intention to make an Autumnal art journal page but the start of the new season here in the UK must have had a bigger influence on me than I had thought! Do you find the seasons influencing your art when you least expect it? What seasonal projects have you been doing this week?

If you are wondering, the stencil is actually one I made myself and those of you that have popped into my blog or YouTube channel before would have seen it a few times. But if you haven't then you can find out how I made it in my Moroccan tile blog post.


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Supplies:
DIY Stencil

Strathmore Visual Journal Mixed Media
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Golden Regular Gel (Gloss)
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Golden Glazing Liquid (Satin)
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Golden Heavy Body (Raw Umber)
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Liquitex Heavy Body (Raw Sienna; Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue)
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Liquitex Heavy Body (Muted collection - Muted Turquoise)
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Liquitex Soft Body (Quinacridone Crimson)
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Liquitex Ink (Muted collection - Muted Green)
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Palette knives
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flat brush 3/4
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flat brush 1/2
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Pie tins
Plastic palette
Old book pages
Kitchen towel

So have a go at these ideas for using acrylic glazing and using tinted paints and gels and let me know how you get on. Link to me in social media so that I can see the results! All my links are below.

Happy painting
Kim


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