I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel. This is an amazing piece and your teaching style is excellent, especially for us newbies. thank you for sharing - I’ll try to catch up on many of your other tutorials. Cheryl in New Jersey. 🤩🤩🤩
Love that you can use a travel hairdryer. Other people are using expensive airbrushes and I really did not want to spend a lot to get into this. I make greeting cards and alcohol inks would make beautiful ones. Thanks for the tip.
I LOVE the way you did his video... Not just how Beautiful art and how it turned out... I'm talking about how you narrated it, and we didn't have to HEAR the NOISE of the Hair Dryer... Such a JOY to watch (not hear)... I just want to HEAR You Talk. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
This is beautiful! Thank you for showing this in real time. It really helps to see how it’s done and that you need to take your time as née layers are created.
Beautiful work with great descriptions. I’m impressed you mentioned and showed your safety mask. I find not many do and I didn’t realise it was necessary until recently.
Thank you so very much, I have been trying to get this technique forever and all the videos are too quick....I have been praying for a real time one , so thank you.
I'm so so glad to hear that! Makes it feel worth the effort of doing the recording and voiceover haha! So I appreciate you letting me know! I just made another tutorial too btw :)
@@Coyasauce I only use one side but I don’t tilt the paper for the ink to flow back. Usually my paper is flat on the table and I just wait for the ink to come back on it’s own.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful work, you can see perfectly how laborious it is and the dedication it requires. I wonder if the brass and gold pinata behave the same... I have the gold and it always ends up in the background of my painting. 😞
This is so good thank you! I have a question, I have the pinata metallic gold, I am brand new to alcohol ink and got it in a kit with some yupo paper, a bottle of red, blue and yellow ink and a bottle of alcohol. I noticed that anytime I dropped gold ink, it would sink under the alcohol and ink and sit on the paper, even start soaking into the paper, and it was very stubborn and wouldn't move. I'm wondering if maybe it was old? Or I'm doing something wrong?
Hmm which brand of Yupo paper are you using? It should be waterproof so the ink should definitely not sink into the paper! If the gold sinks to the bottom of the isopropyl that is normal and that's what this technique tries to deal with 🙂 by putting ink on top of the gold it can push it to the surface again! Also make sure to shake it really well ☺️
Thank you - that was amazing. I am a newbie and ots not going too well with my golds etc - thay come out in blobs not a line. I am also waiting on another heat source to arrive - have been using a straw and the little blow ball. I have yuppa paper but not all inks are perhsps good quality ( I inherited some, mamy of which are dried out - but could perpahs be brought back to life with alchohol in their containers)? Also my alchohol is not isyprophl, its something else - will try to get some 99% today. I am so appreciative that you did that tutorial so slowly, that it was easily understood, also your voice is fantastic! See you later when I have my isyprophl afterwards. I am so looking forward to it - I thought I was crazy - all these tutortials, which look so easy and mine just dont look anything like them. You showed it beautifully, exactly hiw it should be - I thank you so much! lynda 💕🧚🏼♀️
Aw thanks so much for another lovely comment! Let me know how you've been getting on with it! And yes you can totally reactivate old inks with some more isopropyl :)
STUNNING!!!! And so informative... I've have now subscribed and can hardly wait to see your works of art. And then to attempt to create something as beautiful as this. I do however have to wait until my Piñata Brass comes in. I have very other Piñata metallic and many Ranger metallic and as well as Ranger alloys BUT I keep hearing that Piñata Brass is THE BEST!!! Thank you so much for this video! What do you do with your finished pieces? I trying to incorporate mine into cards but have a hard time figuring out how to do so
Hi Nanci, sorry I just saw your reply now for some reason! I hope your Brass has arrived and you've been enjoying it! I use my finished pieces as cards as well, or frame them as wall art! I also mount them to wood and seal with resin but that's a longer process. Let me know how things went if you tried this technique!
Wow, this is definitely not as easy as you make it look lol 😂 I made a mess. A blue, sparkly mess! I absolutely love this tutorial and you do a great job explaining, I just need a LOT of practice with that paper bending
Hi thank you for filming it in real time, it gave me a better grasp of how you create the ripples! Quick question - If I want to create depth and multiple layers, how would you recommend sealing each layer? In other words, I'm not sure how to create a barrier between one layer and a layer on top of it so that the next layer is not affecting the lower one. Perhaps resin can be used as a barrier?
Hi there, yes resin is exactly what I would use! Sometimes resin can reactivate the alcohol inks though, so you should also seal the inks before adding resin. I have a blog on my site that includes a section on how to seal your inks :)
Love this technique.. you make it look so easy .. when I do it all the liquid falls off the yupo... I am going to give it another try.. is your hairdryer on cool or hot please? thanks for a great tutorial
I hope one day to be successful in my alcohol ink experimentations. Videos like yours help a lot. Even if for now I put myself on pause with them and with all my other artistic projects in drawing and painting since I fail with them all... in these troubled times of covid pandemic. All I can do well is making bookmarks since they are small pieces of work and less complicated to do. I will also try to paint on candle containers (not sure it is the exact english word). I discovered this on RU-vid 2 or 3 days ago as it looks fun to do. One day, when the energy is back I will try again bigger pieces of alcohol ink art and then will use this tutorial to its full potential. I saw your work on Instagram and I love it.
Thank you, yes I've tried that size and in order to get the inks to go in the shapes I want it involves even more bending of the page, especially bending it so the centre in curved :)
Hello me again.. just wondering why you leave the white piece at the bottom/top of yupo paper instead of covering the whole piece.. I hope to try this technique soon.. thank again :)
That's just because I like the look of it, like a gradient fading from white to dark! But you could definitely have ink from top to bottom, just hold it on the other end while you're inking that edge! :)
@@Coyasauce thank you for your prompt reply and explanation, really looking forward to doing this technique but ATM I have a broken wrist so am unable to do anything.... watch lots of you tube videos to pass the time.. I can do that with one hand to type and two eyes to look LOL ..
I'm trying to figure out why my brass ink doesn't stay together and form lines. It spreads like the regular ink and blends with the colors. I make sure I shake it well before use. Any tips or ideas what I may be doing wrong?
Yes! Take photos when it's the evening - light will be coming through at an angle, instead of directly above, and this will make the gold shine, especially if you take your photo from a somewhat low angle too. And when the lighting is just starting to get a bit darker, it can make the gold seem extra bright and make it pop out more 😊
Sorry I only saw this now! I would suggest just doing about one layer at a time so you can really control it, so don't cover the entire page but just a horizontal area roughly the size of the layer you want to do
