mixed media fun with bombay india ink

hi there Lindsay here the frugal crafter with my first make some media video I'm so excited alright so here's some of the goodies I got from Oriental Trading this week and this is the journal it's a excel Canson mixed-media pad and I'm not treating the paper I'm just gonna use the paper as it is in the journal so I'm going to fold around the back the cover to the back and that's what I like about the spiral-bound books no matter what brand you choose file background bound books a nice because they lay flat and then what I've done is I found this on oh one of those Dollar Tree disposable cutting mats you get two in a package for $1 and I'm just gonna set that in my book here just so that um so that if if I do get a little crazy with the ink I don't know how this paper is gonna behave I don't want it to bleed through to the other sheet oops I got to there so I'm gonna put that in I might end up trimming this down to the size of the book but um I think it's fine like that for today and I'm just gonna do some sketching and this mechanical pencil King this set of five it was 5 micron pens and one pencil so I'm actually just gonna sketch on a dragonfly I want it to take up a good amount of the paper so I am actually just gonna roughly sketch it in with a pencil and then do some inking and so this is my first journal art and hopefully not my last because I looking forward to doing a bunch of these tutorials um so you know bear with me I hope that uh that it is insightful on my wings two short buds alright we're just gonna play with some techniques here today anyway so yeah it proportionately that should be a lot longer but we're just gonna we're gonna go with it and there and I think I've got enough I've got enough of the the detail put out I think so that I can go ahead and grab some pen so you can see on the end of the Pens on off you can on the video hopefully need different sizes and so the tiniest one being a zero zero 5 then a 0 3 then a 0 8 then a 1 and then a brush so I don't want to use anything too tiny I think we'll go with a zero three and I'm just going to start adding in some details this is probably dull I hope not but I like to start with my basic shapes and then go in and add details just because I think it's a little easier to approach it that way that we don't ended anything too out of whack I mean obviously my wings are too short but this is not you know a realistic drawing it's just a you know it's a fun fun warm-up by heaven I just came down to my studio turned on my little space heater and um you know just warming up for a day of creating so I'm going to keep it quite loose and sketchy just kind of get some of these shapes and patterns on the Dragonfly so I can play with coloring it with some inks oh there goes the furnace actually waited for the furnace to shut off but apparently it's got more heating it wants to do unfortunately not in my cold studio there we go and I'm just gonna throw in some pattern here I'm gonna do a lot of the work with the inks so I just kinda want to just get a little bit of a a little bit of a shape there and then I don't think I'm gonna put much detail in the wings because I think I would like to maybe use a stencil later and just kind of spray on some random detail all right the pen works quite well in this paper you'll switch over to the brush to do the legs it's got a very fine brush point and just want to keep it kind of easy Breezie the segmented legs there alright so for the inks what I did was uh-oh I'm gonna be using some twinkling h2o so to prepare them I actually sprayed them with water a couple minutes ago I'm going to do it again that just softens up the paint so that it's ready to go when you are and then I am took these three colors down here these three colors up here and I put them in the wells there but what I think I should have done was actually put them here and then brought them over to mix but since I'm only using six colors I really don't plan on mixing them on the palette I think I'm gonna be alright um and I don't want to put judge ink out because I think it's permanent once it's dry so I don't want to have I don't want to waste a bunch and I'm just gonna use a wet brush here I got my bucket of water over here off camera and um really I should probably have that to my right one of them leave that I really should that to my rakes I'm right-handed some of the slides that over--oh preparation right so good for the preparation as usual there we go okay that works and if there's any whites that I want to protect I can go into the white crayon and um I really don't think there are but maybe I'll just add some maybe some highlights here and there I don't know I just kind of want to see how the resist works for the India ink I've never used the India ink for painting before I've done some pen and ink work with it but um but really that's it so I kind of curious about that and you know just another idea I think I've sent this over here I think about it just try um I know this people are just you thick for it but I think I'm gonna try just throwing a stencil under there and rubbing the crayon on it and just seeing if I can make like a little bit of a pattern resist over here so we'll see if that works I have no idea that well or not but that's why we're experimenting so they're a little bit of a pattern um in wax over there okay so maybe I will start let my paper a little bit just to give the ink area to flow in um and this may buckle terribly I have no idea cuz I haven't used this paper before this is the first sheet in the album I thought I might practice a little bit but I thought you know what I think it's kind of important and nice if you can kind of see how things really happen instead of you know seeing a flawless tutorial by someone who's practiced it a billion times that's what you see when you see like you know the demonstrations done by the people that work for the companies they've practiced it and you know it's all perfect and you know and then you sit down and it doesn't happen quite that easily for you so I just kind of want to keep it real and but the the ink is blending really well on this paper I feel like I want a little bit of uh maybe so that magenta in there these are really nice colors I was also curious about the India ink because I'm a water colorist so I was wondering if it would have if it would behave a lot like watercolors I think water colors might buckle this paper a little bit more than this is but I grabbed some salt because I just wanted to see if it would give me that kind of snow flaky texture if I sprinkle that in so I'm gonna try that too oh I think it is I think it's going to this is a kosher salt from the health food store any salt will work the kosher has a bigger granules so um so you'll get some more random looks and our little resist work there that's pretty cool and I'm gonna continue filling in the background I think with the India ink it's going to dry quicker and once it's dry it should be permanent I should be able to go over it with other media without it lifting up so that's it another reason I wanted to try the India ink because with mixed media you end up overlaying stuff a lot I love that bright transparent color I think I did notice that it seemed like some of the inks um where I don't say opaque but you could see the pigments in them so I actually shook my paint up before I put it down sorry about that little time lapse I got a phone call that's how I I do I had to pause it um and so I just added a little more of the pink and purple up there but what I was saying is that since this is going to dry permanent I'll be able to add stuff on top and I think that'll be kind of kind of cool I'm wondering whether I should go over the the wing area or not and I think I'll leave it I think this time I will leave it next time maybe I'll feel like going over it I know the wings should be transparent but I've got a lot of techniques I want to kind of do so I think I will just leave that be and finish it painting in this background and a little bit more than and I'm not I just put a couple drops of each color on the palette so you can kind of see that a little bit goes a long way so if you're using the India inks it just put out a couple drops at a time you could work from the bottles but I would worry about kind of cross contaminating the colors so you wouldn't want to like stick a brush from color to color if you know once you brush out really good or maybe if your water wasn't the cleanest you know you could be inviting some problems there and supplies are expensive so you don't want to you don't want to waste them and again these supplies were provided to me by Oriental Trading Company they are now offering a limited supply of art supplies along with their crafts and party supplies so you might want to check them out I'm sure their inventory will be growing and changing over the next couple of weeks so you know just keep checking back and seeing if they have what you require so I'm going to go ahead and let's go with the brighter green for that I'm going to add these little green patches in um just kind of throw them in just one light brush this is just using the paint straight on white paper this I'm sorry the ink straight on white paper just kind of putting in a little pattern here not following my design completely I just want to kind of get some color in there a little bit under where the wings are gonna show and appear in his face do a little bit of blue in the eyeballs oh look how vivid that is that's pretty and for the body I think even though dragonfly isn't really that vivid I think I really want him to be I think I'm gonna do um has some turquoise cuz you know it's my painting I can have it whatever color I want no I am kind of deliberately going next to the area where I just painted some curious to see if it's gonna bleed and feather and run as much as watercolors because um I'm just learning here and this is I think cuz people are saying I don't get art journaling you know why would you do all that work just to shut it in a book I think part of it is that it's kind of freeing to be able to just kind of play and not really worry about the outcome because I you know nobody else has to see it obviously I'm doing this video so you're all seeing it but you know if it's a real bummer I never have to show anybody if it's you know if it's a bummer I never have to upload this video so actually you can see it's not really blending it blend out a little bit there oh it was really wet but it's um it's uh behaving quite nicely I'm having a lot of fun with this actually looking at the time oh it's 11 minutes already holy moly where did the time go my same way longer to you guys but I don't a good time it's uh not seeming that long to me okay I think I need something different for the wings I am going to wet them and I think put in some different color I'm going to wet actually the wings as they go right over the body so I can get some of that to blend out I don't want it to be harsh I want it to be a little softer and since that ink is not dried yet that's why it's lifting you can see on areas where the ink was applied drier it's not lifting so that's a combination of the paper and the type of ink that that is I'm going to go in with some of this blue it might bleed into my background because I you know I'm not really waiting for things to dry today because I don't have that much time to to let it dry my 20-minute video window I'm thinking I got a out I got a high-definition webcam I might try doing kind of one of these tutorials in real time and kind of telling you what the supplies are ahead of time so you can join in and then paint right along with me I want to try the twinkling h2o sigh I've got my blue and my green ready so I'm just going to try this blue here my brush in there you want to soften them up first with a little bit of water because the cakes are really really hard they're much harder than like a watercolor cake so it's something to keep in mind but you'll notice I'm getting ink on the top of that that will wipe right away with a clean brush that's all right and it's all gonna penetrate that top layer because it is such a hard cake of color they were sold out of these at Oriental Trading I guess they were really popular um so and they they've taken that they've taken it right down you can't even see see it to backorder it but they do offer pearl ex-us it's a cute little set of pearl X watercolors there's 12 in a little CD size case so it's easy to store so they have that there which would be comparable to the twinkling h2s I think because I've made paints my pearl X it works really well and I'm going to do a little bit of green on the body I'll go to this green twinkling h2o and I'm just gonna go right over that wet paint and probably able to tell what it looks like until I dry it just want a little shimmer in there and then I was thinking that um I was looking at this white being can I say well I got white paper what I'm gonna use this for and then I thought maybe I would use it kind of like a spray mist with some stencils so what I think I'm gonna do is pause the camera and see if I can dry this out and then we can put some layers with some stencils and some and some of these other inks so hold I'll be back after I dry this alright I dried this off and I brushed off my my salt so you can see in kind of the cool texture there Louie zoom in you can see the cold salty texture that's neat um and now I am going to uh I'm gonna put some of this white ink here you can see it comes when you get them they cuz it's like kind of little covering here which I'm probably gonna drop in there there we go and I'm gonna pour some right into that white section there and I'm gonna do the same of the black and I'm actually gonna use this for the toothbrush to create my own little mists from the inks and because I cut because it's a permanent I'm afraid if I put these in a spray bottle with like diluted with water then they're going to clog because they are because they are in India a permanent ink so what I want to do I think I've got a whole folder of stencils over here grab those and find something throw over there maybe maybe that few just in case maybe that one I kind of like that one the one that I was using earlier okay they'll go with the white first just because I know that's not gonna create too much of a problem so I'm dipping my brush in there it's kind of the consistency of milk already so I don't think I need to dilute it and then I'm just going to spray and I'm really glad I put the UM I'm really glad I put the Matt down underneath there because I did get it did leak like all the UH it didn't leak through the paper but off the edges and stuff so I wanted to make sure that that I didn't nice anything up there I'm gonna just dip right into that black don't want to cover over my dragonfly too much probably not a great idea if you spend a lot of money to get your nails to try this technique because your nails are gonna be trashed and I do a little bit of black over there I will have to rinse this off I go back into the white again I'm also kind of curious to let the paint dry in the palette and see if I can reactivate it a bit for the water or alcohol or something so let you know how that goes on the next mixed-media video now the cool thing about stencils is that um you know we're getting this really covered with ink here so what I can do is remove it and I can actually press it down somewhere else and use that use it as a stamp so they're kind of like two for the price of one there this is this art journaling things kind of fun I have to say I won't be dirt actually journaling because I can't write upside down look at my hands oh my gosh I'm hopefully the lefty sure and here can light my hands off with okay and then the other use I wanted to try was just kind of dipping in some of the the ink right from the bottle so I'm just going to give this a shake and try maybe sketching on some details of the of the wing here with this glass pen we'll give it a try is kind of more of a novelty than anything else I'm just sketching on a pattern there this is a very fine tip panel if you can see anything or not that I'm drawing here it's hard to tell from that little monitor whether you'd be able to see anything maybe I'll switch to a thicker pen let's try this one I don't know I've left my pens in various states of neglect so I turn off oh yeah that's working alright I'm not going to worry about it because this is just practice it's just fun I'm not expecting this to be hung up anywhere and I think that's kind of what the whole purpose of an original is just to kind of have fun and maybe try some techniques and I think that would even be kind of fun to just put the wet brush and drag along the edge and soften it oh I like that and maybe even add a little bit more of that pearl stuff to it while I'm at it and you can see those first lines I made that we're already dry if kind of a kind of melt have have stayed actually so that's kind of cool it'll add some more details up here to this top one brush a color they're just coming I'm just putting a random pattern so please don't I don't take this as this is the way a wheat veins on the Dragonfly wing goes because I am just making it up folks oops and look I've just spilt some and well so I'm gonna add some sparkles over here so it looks like you did it on purpose that's what you do when you make mistake if you do it in other parts you repeat the pattern then it looks on purpose so well a little tip for me to you there how to code I just a do a how to make your mistakes seem intentional I'm very good at that and with my glass and I grab that glass pan again and go on a little bit more detailed lines and I'm really Harvey in because my camera's gonna shut off in like 30 seconds um well there you have it I've got some some fun little techniques there that we've tried and I do hope that you do it your supplies and give it a try to and maybe follow along next time thank you so much for watching links below to the products I used and subscribe thumbs up until next time happy crafting

Channel: thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich

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Keywords: Oriental Trading Company (Business Operation), crafting, frugalcrafter, art, Dr Ph Martin inks, mixed media, maker, lindsay weirich, craft, Bombay ink, the frugal crafter, mixed media techniques, art journal, mixed media tutorial, twinkling H2Os, thefrugalcrafter, crafts, video

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Length: 19min 53sec (1193 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 19 2014