Alcohol & Acrylic Paint Layering Tutorial - A Month Of Fun Mixed Media Experiments! 

Thank you for a very thorough and detailed teaching

Since COVID, it’s very difficult to find 90% alcohol in the US, especially living on an island. Love the experiments professor😉❤️👏🏼

Wonderful ideas, thank you.

These are super Nina! Think I'll have to have a go! Tfs 😊

What a fabulous experiment! Thank you for showcasing some great techniques!

I love it Nina.

I think these would be stunning as backgrounds for Christmas cards. They look rather festive.💜

I especially love the Tate cards. Some look very impressionistic. I remember the first time I ever saw alcohol on watercolor was when you were on vacation in Spain (I think). I just loved those pieces you created! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us. Blessings to you, Nina.

Lovely technic have just got the Alcohol online .can't wait to try it out.

I love this technique too, rather addictive indeed. Great results Nina, thank you!

I love this technique! I have done this with alcohol, but never with many layers before. I’ll have to experiment with this. This technique works nicely with Starburst sprays but you can’t layer them because they reactivate with the next layer. I suppose you could use fixative between layers, though. Thanks for inspiring us.

The red toned one you love reminds me of a field of poppies. They are all very lovely.

So many backgrounds; so little time.,hahaha I can see where this could get very addicting. So many great backgrounds

Very cool Nina 💕

Thank you so much Nina, that’s really really awesome 😎 I really really love 💕 the results you got absolutely fantastic. When I get time between handmade cards I’m going to try this out. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags. We couldn’t do without you that’s for sure

I use 300 lbs watercolour paper Nina and with that the paper stays wet for much longer and you can get a more pleasing result when using watercolour paint and salt.

So many different results. They all look so great. And so simple.

Great results! What a fun process! I remember when you did the field of poppies. Thanks for sharing this technique once more.💕

So fun and interesting. I have both alcohol and acetone on hand... have a wonderful week!

Beautiful

love it ...the first one reminds me of looking out of a window and there is a storm outside yet your nice and cosy inside x

Very nice results ❤️❤️❤️

Love the effects you achieved , i will have to give this a go , thanks so much for sharing ❤

Great experiments Nina xx.

What lovely pieces you got from your experiments. Sometimes it’s just good to sit down and play without any expectations of what will happen. Thanks Nina 💕💫

I love making alcohol splattered marks with layers of acrylics. Yours turned out beautifully, Nina.

Wow, such unusual and textured results! Thanks for sharing.

What interesting effects you get with these techniques. The way the colors play together is quite something. And the journal pages that you made are stunning. Thanks for sharing!

So yummy!!! ❤️

Oh these are fabulous, I especially loved the 2nd bombay inks one... Probably the colours but the wiping away of the white made it look awesome.... Now my workshop bench is cleared I'm hoping to do more experimenting as I have the huge bench to work on.... Just gotta rig up my phone for filming now😁😁😁😁 so happy I finished it yesterday... Bit pooped but I can now play once again 😁😁😁😁😜💖

Love that ink and alcohol technique! Beautiful texture and background. Will definitely give that a try😊

Fabulous, I think my crafty granddaughter will like this!

Love this technique and your journal pages Nina...you are brilliant!

You got some fabulous results! Thanks for sharing!

These are lovely, Nina. I've never used alcohol on acrylics, but I will now!! Many thanks as ever.

Very pretty!! Going to try the inks love ....the results! 💜👀💜

Lovely backgrounds. Thanks for sharing this technique. Have a lovely day Nina!

Such a marvelous technique, Nna! Thank you!

Oh boy, this is going to be fun! I have some experience with these techniques but I just love those postcards, just the right type of surface I think. So many options to play with! Love your results!💕🇨🇦

great results! Thanks

What a cool idea! So inspirational!

I’ve come a little late to the party but these are just gorgeous Nina I really love them. For us U.K. people, Amazon do 100% isopropyl alcohol if anyone wants some xx

For the alcohol inks on water colours on water colour paper it may be best to seal the paper first with gloss medium

Yes there beautiful, I love that effect 🤗💜🧚‍♀️

This is one if my fave techniques to do! I first saw Lorri Marie Jenkins do it and was hooked! It’s so exciting isn’t it? I saw Andy Skinner’s vid too. You got some really good results,Nina. So pretty. Tfs. Hugs, Dee xxx💖💖💖

Proof again that life is full of possibilities!!! Love the results and your pages. I wonder now if my Dr. Martin Inks are hydra. My results are never like yours. That will be the first think I check! Thank you for encouraging me to feel free to experiment! TFS. I did. God bless and stay safe.

Awesome , can’t wait to play . Hugs xx

Great technique, Nina. Love the results.

I love these. I have not experimented with alcohol at all. I think I will start. Thank you for the inspiration. I love how your designs turned out! Xx

Love this technique! Thank you for sharing it...

Wow some lovely backgrounds Nina,,,xxx 👏💕😊

Nice!

This was really interesting. I’ll try it with surgical spirit or nail varnish remover. I love this effect! Happy Sunday!

Nina, this was fun to watch and you got some wonderful backgrounds. I know what I will be trying when I get off work this afternoon. Thanks so much, have a great week.

Your videos are just awesome, Nina

I love the piece that you rubbed the white off of! Beautiful colours and patterns! Cheers from 🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta🇨🇦

Good morning nina, like you I sometimes overthink while I am creating and with techniques like this you just have to wait and see. Well not entirely true, you choose the colours and you are good at this. The nice thing is, that the results are inspiring and ideas come up right away and then your"thinking cap" is in order. Thanks for mentioning that nailpolishremover will also do the job, since I haven no prosomething alcohol......Have a good week nina, love lena xxx

Love this! I’m going to have a play with this today... in fact... (pause) ... right now... I stopped commenting in order to gather my supplies to check out this fun technique. I remember those art journal layouts and used to try to follow along with you. I loved filling my 8x8 black journal which was my first completed journal. I’m still creating art journal layouts in various sizes but I haven’t gotten into junk journals or other mixed media projects although I am hoping to create a grouping of small 8” canvases for the wall I look at the most. I recently resubscribed to your channel which was how I saw this video. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us and have a great day! 🙂

Cool designs

Hi Nina, those pages are really beautiful. I think that I might try this technique.

Absolutely awesome............👌👏👏👏😍

Love them all!!

when i use plain water on my watercolors i get this result i do get blooms but i love the look

Very exciting prompt this week! Can’t wait to experiment yet again! I will be googling chemical reactions (fumes, effect on paper, etc) if I venture outside what you and Kylie have used in your videos...I have an idea, but want to make sure it’s safe to use with art supplies and whether it affects the paper’s longevity! Thanks again for a new challenge. 💕 PS. I’ve been working on most of the prompts (RRR and dendritic) but have found little time to take pictures...lol...how do you manage to make so many great videos! My hat goes off to you and Kylie for all that you do to make this group such a success! ❤️😀

Through my experiments, I have found that acrylics need to be diluted pretty heavily and the alcohol should be 91% or more, for the best results. Also, the watercolor & salt reaction works best if the watercolor paints are still damp, but not so wet that there are puddles. Larger salt particles like from pink salt, or rock salt have given me some really pretty results. Hope this helps anyone watching after 2 years later! 😉

Great results Nina - I should have thought to try the acetone as I have some of it - that might be a mid-week experiment :)

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Interesting results with the different paints and layering 😁.Was using rock salt last night on watercolour 😆X

You can use this layer technique with watercolor IF you use Dewent Inktense watercolors. They are permanent once dry. You can buy blocks and pencils.

I love your experiments, I had a go last time you did something like this, but it didn't turn out half as good as yours. You produced some lovely colour combos. Tfs xo

Very pretty

Very interesting I wonder what happens if you spray alcohol instead of sprinkling by the brush. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful results! Love the pages. Will you do something with them next week?

The smell of surgical spirit reminds me of when I got my ears pierced. As Tim Holtz always says when asked if something might work - just try it, it is only paper!

Loved this technique! I can’t wait to try it! I wonder how it would work on Yupo paper??? Have a great day!! 😊

You need to use MUCH more water. The acrylics should be almost transparent and wet when sprinkling alcohol

Hello Nina, I'm writing this before watching your video because I don't want to forget. I realized I haven't been getting videos from you or anyone else that I subscribe to for at least a month, maybe longer. I have no idea why since I have double checked to make sure I am still subscribed and that the bell is set to all. Do you think it is a You Tube problem? Thank you for any help or suggestions you can give me.

Bellissime, posso sapere quale prodotto c'è nel flaconcino spray?

Jackson Pollock

this is something a bit different. I might experiment of Christmas cards

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Will this work on wood

Very cool Nina 💕