A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
I watched a Youtube tutorial by Makoccino (seen below, and linked here)
I used EEM (Eventually, Everything Mixes) and QoR watercolor paints, and my tiny Stillman and Birn Beta Series pocket journal.
And then tried the ideas on my own yesterday. Here are my results:
This is a very small journal, and a kind of flattish masking fluid pen, AND the middle of the page tore beneath the fluid on the flower one.
This was a simple, quick, relaxing (except the tearing page) exercise. Thanks, Makoccino!
I sketched in another leaf or two, then decided to use real frisket/masking fluid instead of my pen. (I LOVE my pen, but I applied it too thinly on the last one and couldn’t remove it all) Then spent 30 minutes searching for the bottle. Now have applied but need to wait for it to dry. And… I am too tired to do more.
Yuck. Masking fluid is killing me. (It really might be, its smells pretty bad. I don’t know what’s in it) I will need more practice AND I’m going to look into other tools people use to apply this stuff. Meanwhile, I found a fun Iraville tutorial.
Agggh my masking fluid woes! It came out so FAT, not at all dainty and delicate like I attempted. The first picture is what the tree lines looked like initially, the second is after I painted over them a couple of times. (Hers looked so professional and clean. Well, she is a professional, so they should…)
In the end I’m happy with it. Happy enough. But I’m off to research masking fluid applicators.
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