Bernie Berlin week 1 Liquid watercolors
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:50 pm
Liquid Watercolors
Week 1 Intuitive watercolor p12
Week 1 Watercolor on baby wipes p14
Week 1 Leafing pen resist p18
Supplies: Bernie has a list of supplies she used for the technique. Keep in mind, some companies supplied products for her to use for publicity reasons, they are not the only products or brands that will work with the techniques! In some cases they are the only thing that will work. Read through the pages and decide what you think will work for you. I have added some substitutions from my stash that you may already have.
In this particular technique she has used liquid watercolors. "Liquid Watercolors contain dyes as well as pigments, suspended in an aqueous medium. They are especially brilliant and transparent. Because they are moist and fluid, they are suited to thin washes and airbrush application as well as conventional brushwork. Many of the more brilliant colors are fugitive, so liquid watercolors are used most often for illustrations that will be scanned for reproduction."
If you don't have watercolors, you can use reinkers, or misters or any other form of liquid color medium. Experiment and let us know what your results look like. Please post the 'mistakes' too!!!! That way we can learn what NOT to do, or someone might like the new effect, ya never know.
Bernie's Supplies (suitable substitutions)
Palette paper (thin, plain generic paper, but use whatever you want)
Watercolor brush (paintbrush)
watercolor paper (absorbant card stock)
liquid watercolor or dye ink (reinkers)
heat gun
finepoint black pen (journaling pen)
baby wipes
scrap paper
glue or gel medium (bookbinding glue)
scissors
Krylon leafing pen
fluid black acryllic paint (permanent ink pad or staz-on)
If you have a substitution suggestion, please add it! this is where we begin sharing our tricks and hints. Please don't feel you are going to need to purchase everything Bernie suggests. As a matter of fact, she has switched to another brand of liquid acryllics since the book came out, so things change, we are entitled to change too.
Let's get ready to play!!!!!!
Week 1 Intuitive watercolor p12
Week 1 Watercolor on baby wipes p14
Week 1 Leafing pen resist p18
Supplies: Bernie has a list of supplies she used for the technique. Keep in mind, some companies supplied products for her to use for publicity reasons, they are not the only products or brands that will work with the techniques! In some cases they are the only thing that will work. Read through the pages and decide what you think will work for you. I have added some substitutions from my stash that you may already have.
In this particular technique she has used liquid watercolors. "Liquid Watercolors contain dyes as well as pigments, suspended in an aqueous medium. They are especially brilliant and transparent. Because they are moist and fluid, they are suited to thin washes and airbrush application as well as conventional brushwork. Many of the more brilliant colors are fugitive, so liquid watercolors are used most often for illustrations that will be scanned for reproduction."
If you don't have watercolors, you can use reinkers, or misters or any other form of liquid color medium. Experiment and let us know what your results look like. Please post the 'mistakes' too!!!! That way we can learn what NOT to do, or someone might like the new effect, ya never know.
Bernie's Supplies (suitable substitutions)
Palette paper (thin, plain generic paper, but use whatever you want)
Watercolor brush (paintbrush)
watercolor paper (absorbant card stock)
liquid watercolor or dye ink (reinkers)
heat gun
finepoint black pen (journaling pen)
baby wipes
scrap paper
glue or gel medium (bookbinding glue)
scissors
Krylon leafing pen
fluid black acryllic paint (permanent ink pad or staz-on)
If you have a substitution suggestion, please add it! this is where we begin sharing our tricks and hints. Please don't feel you are going to need to purchase everything Bernie suggests. As a matter of fact, she has switched to another brand of liquid acryllics since the book came out, so things change, we are entitled to change too.
Let's get ready to play!!!!!!