Alcohol Ink eBook
Burlington, Vermont By Barbara Steltz (Inspired by a watercolour painting by Katherine Montstream. http://www.kmmstudio.com )
Materials: 1 tile, 5 x10 inch, Adirondack Blending Solution, 91% rubbing alcohol, brushes, stamper and felt, Pebeo Drawing Gum ( masking fluid), Jim Holtz Adirondack Inks: Sunshine Yellow, Sunset Orange, Purple Twilight, Denim, Cloudy Blue, Cool Peri, Lettuce, Citrus, Pesto, Red Pepper, Terra Cotta, Stream and Spectrum Noir Ink pens greens, gray, browns and reds. Method: With a lot of hard work, time, concentration, patience, wiping off and restarting twice, finessing the inks, breathing and finally sighing with relief that I finished and was satisfied! First large tile ever, and first successful, intentional landscape. I washed the tile with alcohol. I masked the mountains, village buildings and lakefront. I then inked the sky with Yellow, Orange and blender solution, tipping the tile, adding ink and blender, until satisfied. I un-masked the mountains and used Purple, Denim, Cloudy Blue and Cool Peri and blending solution. This took multiple tries, thus it has ink build up that I couldn’t remove. I then used greens on the stamper with felt and dabbed on greens, and a little orange. I unmasked the village buildings, and used a combination of ink markers and Red Pepper and Terra Cotta inks to fill in the buildings. Finally, I used blender solution, Stream and Cool Peri for the lakefront. I will spray with Kamar varnish, 2-3 coats, UV protection 2-3 coats, and then Krylon Triple Thick Glaze.
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