Alcohol Ink Landscape on Yupo

I don't know how I missed posting this earlier. When I was getting ready to teach the alcohol ink class I tried painting on yupo with the alcohol inks. In case you don't know...yupo is a synthetic paper which is sort of like painting on plastic. I've painted on it before with watercolors, but they puddle much more than the alcohol inks and dry much slower. I liked using the inks on the yupo and hope to do more of these. This is 5 x 7.

30 in 30 - Day 28 - Max & My Class

My Day 28 painting for the "30 Paintings in 30 Days" Challenge is of Max. Max was the pet of my friend, Maureen Martini, but Max is no longer alive. He was a sweet dog. This was done with watercolors, watercolor pencils, and ink.

Don't forget to check out the other artwork for the challenge here:
https://www.saetastudio.com/30-in-30-blog

Thursday evening I taught my first art class at the Catbird Seat in Sayville. It is a cute shop on Main Street going into town with all kinds of vintage items, artwork, refinished furniture, and more. Debi Wickliffe asked me to teach an alcohol ink class after seeing some of the tiles I had done recently. We had a full class and everyone seemed to really enjoy the class and get into painting the tiles. Here are some photos from the evening.

All the ladies with their painted tiles. That's me at the far corner of the table with the star pointing to my head. 

Debi set up the room like we were at a dinner party...

complete with wine and snacks.

Everyone hard at work...that's Debi at the end of the table...just observing until she decided to join in the fun.

Susan used some colorful inks on her floral landscape.

The ladies were great at sharing the bottles of ink.

Laurie's first creation...it reminds me of a snail.

Marie working carefully.

All in all, it was a fun night. I knew some of the ladies from my plein air group, but more than half were new to me...and great fun to work with. Everyone got to go home with at least 2 tiles that they had painted.

Alcohol Inks

Here are the last two alcohol inks I did on tile. The top one is 4 x 4 and the bottom one is 6 x 6.

Moonlit

Here is another of the alcohol ink tiles that I've done. I used masking fluid to keep the white for the moon.

Alcohol Ink Landscapes

Here are a few alcohol ink landscapes that I did for my show this weekend. They will be for sale in addition to my framed paintings, smaller matted paintings, books and notecards.

Alcohol Inks - Part V

Here are two more small tiles I did with the alcohol inks. I put cork on the backs of the tiles to keep them from scratching things. I dropped off several of the tiles at a shop in the next town for her to sell during the holidays. She wants me to give a class and already has someone interested in taking it. lol

These are actually square tiles but I have to crop them because there is such a shine on the edges when I take photos of them.

Alcohol Inks - Part IV

This tile is a bit larger...6 x 6. It is fun to see how the alcohol inks react each time. 

Alcohol Inks - Part III

I have still been working on a few alcohol ink tiles. They are different from doing watercolors and I'm enjoying seeing the results. These have been dropped off at a local store, and I'm hoping to get a few more done to have at my plein air group's show on Dec. 10 & 11.

Alcohol Inks - Part I

  For a while I've admired alcohol ink paintings that I've seen other artists like Julie Ford Oliver (http://juliefordoliver.blogspot.com), Sandy Sandy (http://www.sandysandyart.com), and Kellie Chasse (http://kelliesartblog.blogspot.com) paint. I've studied their paintings closely, especially Julie's and have wanted to try it. I've been gathering the necessary supplies lately and then binge watched youtube videos to try to learn the process. The videos helped a little, but playing around with the inks and seeing what they do and how they react seems the best way to learn. Here are my first few attempts.

I picked a few colors and did the backgrounds for the flowers first. If you've never used alcohol inks they don't blend easily and repel each other making different patterns. One of the videos I watched suggested you blow on the areas of ink to make them spread...but they dry very quickly so you need to use a blending solution to keep them active a little longer. When these dried I used a little ink on each of them to outline some of the petals.

Alcohol Inks - Part I

  For a while I've admired alcohol ink paintings that I've seen other artists like Julie Ford Oliver (http://juliefordoliver.blogspot.com), Sandy Sandy (http://www.sandysandyart.com), and Kellie Chasse (http://kelliesartblog.blogspot.com) paint. I've studied their paintings closely, especially Julie's and have wanted to try it. I've been gathering the necessary supplies lately and then binge watched youtube videos to try to learn the process. The videos helped a little, but playing around with the inks and seeing what they do and how they react seems the best way to learn. Here are my first few attempts.

I picked a few colors and did the backgrounds for the flowers first. If you've never used alcohol inks they don't blend easily and repel each other making different patterns. One of the videos I watched suggested you blow on the areas of ink to make them spread...but they dry very quickly so you need to use a blending solution to keep them active a little longer. When these dried I used a little ink on each of them to outline some of the petals.

Then I saw a few videos that did landscapes so I tried one of those. The process was a little different with more pouring or squirting of the inks, but I was very happy with the result.