Water: COLOUR Technique Tutorial

Hi guys, hope everyone's well =D I have the new tutorial today as I promised in a recent post. It is a technique I stumbled across when I was making a background for this canvas:

It doesn't actually contain any watercolour, I call it a 'Water: COLOUR' technique because it is it gives you an instant COLOUR-filled (without the labour, without the 'muddy' effect you sometimes get when you mix too many colours and without any drying time between layers) background with the secret (or not-so now :/ ) ingredient of water.

It's SUPER easy and gives unique results in texture & combinations each time, which is REALLY fun (trust me, we get to have some Kinder Surprise moments ahead ;) )

You will need:

Paper, Brayer, WATER mister, (thin/soft body) Acrylics

optional: acrylic ink & colour sprays (but you can just use water mister instead)

One

Mist your paper thoroughly

Two

Add acrylic in globules, it's ok for it to sink/disperse into the water

Three

Brayer the paint in two or three swipes MAXIMUM. Doing any more will mix colours, and this is a low labour technique remember so think about trying to get this whole thing wrapped up in a couples of minutes. 

The brayer gives us our first hint of texture =D

Four

Mist again

Five

Drop acrylic ink in splats - again think 'quick & easy' & just let a few drops go where they will, no thinking or 'pushing' the design in any way.

Six

Final mist, but this time I use coloured sprays to give it some last colour.

Extra Tip: spraying directly over the acrylic ink makes it disperse so *beautifully*, especially any metallic colours - they shimmer across the page like they have mica in them ;) 

Seven

Put a piece of paper on top, let soak and rub v.lightly - don't smush or squish, you'll smudge the paint together too much - you just want make sure that the top page has touched all the parts of the paper underneath.

Eight

Kinder Surprise Moment:

peel back from one corner & see what lovely designs have been formed =)

Result Close Up:

Yay super easy, done-in-no-time fun colourful background 

(plus some interesting B-sides too) =D

Here are some other examples of how my attempts have come out:

I love how you can't predict how the colours are going to overlay or play with each other, fun, fun, fun =)

Till next time, 

much love, Jennibellie xoxo