hello friends I'm Smitha Katti and welcome to another smiling colors video
today's video is all about watercolor and alcohol techniques this is something
I've not done before so I'm gonna learn and play along with you in this video
today I start by just doodling some hearts in my sketchbook first and then I
explore the technique further and I create these three watercolor
backgrounds and the alcohol just adds such a dreamy effect to it I also
created this hand little piece with the same technique and I'll share a quick
glimpse of it at the end of this video to begin with let me talk a little bit
about the supplies I have I have a bottle of rubbing alcohol this is the
kind that I usually have in our medicine cabinet and it's easily available in
medicine and grocery stores I also have two paintbrushes I have a number 8 round
brush that's a good quality brush and I also have an old scruffy paintbrush that
I'm gonna use to dip in the alcohol I don't want to use my nice pretty brushes
for that I'm gonna be the water coloring today with the tombo galaxy dual brush
pens I like the color combination that they have to have a mixed-media
sketchbook this is a sketchbook that I've used a lot on my youtube channel
already so to begin with I've pulled out all of my markers the tombow dual brush
pens are water-based which is why you can watercolor with them if you put the
pigment on paper and then add water to it the pigment runs and it acts like a
watercolor this watercolor effect is so much fun to create and I do this all the
time and I seem to want it we'll even more so I'm going to start here by
drawing hearts I chose three colors of markers and I'm drawing hearts and
adding three of the colors in there then I'm gonna dip my paintbrush in water and
then I'm just going over the heart with my wet paintbrush the water on my
paintbrush it just reacts with the tombow dual brush pen colors and it
creates this soft version of the color since I've added three marker colors you
can see the three colors kind of blend and react with each other really this is
the simplest technique of all time I'm just painting with water on top of my
markers and painting with water something we learn as kids
so I'm using the tombow galaxy pack today because I know the colors will all
go together really nicely and you can see here the minute I add water they all
mix nicely and create these beautiful hues of color so I went ahead and added
a few more hearts to my page and now it's time to add the alcohol
I poured my Huckle into a little container and I just picked up the
alcohol and started adding little tiny dots onto my heart the alcohol just
reacts with the water and kind of pushes the water color away and creates a
whiter space in the area where it falls it's kind of hard to explain but it's
pretty easy to see and I really loved the effect that it creates some of the
hearts have already kind of dried but I still went ahead and added the alcohol
and you can see it kind of softens the color and it's still you can see the
circle dots of the alcohol in there so depending on the amount of water you
have the alcohol moves differently which makes total sense so now let's just go
ahead and repeat this so I'm drawing more hearts painting them with water and
then adding drops of alcohol I just repeat this process to actually fill up
the whole page here's how it looks after everything has been colored I really
think it needs a background to pull everything together but I thought that
might be just too distracting so I quickly doodle some details onto it and
I called it done but that was not the end of my alcohol and water color
journey I went ahead and cut some watercolor paper this is thicker than
the mixed-media sketchbook I used previously
I felt the paper warped a bit in my sketchbook so I used a nice 140-pound
watercolor paper now and I've trimmed them to be 2 by 6 inches to make
bookmarks this is one of the best ways to explore color to make something
that's useful my kids always need bookmarks and I just get to play color
and kind of distress for the day so onto the bookmark let's try something more
fun this time I'm laying a triangle stencil down on top of the bookmark it's
gonna be messy so I'm not taping anything I'm not I'm not looking for
something precise and then using a couple of colors are from the galaxy
pack I'm just scribble in the marker color and then holding the
stencil in place I'm just dipping my paintbrush in water and painting over it
I carefully lifted the stencil here and you can see that some of the color is
round and I'm ok with that because I wasn't looking for a precise pattern I'm
gonna be dropping alcohol in this and making it even more Messier so now I
picked up some alcohol but this time I'm using a cotton swab I'm dipping the
cotton swab into the rubbing alcohol and I'm just tapping it onto the bookmark
making some circles of color and just moving the color around I love that the
minute I add the alcohol the watercolor which is already so pretty it just
reacts and it kind of moves everything around and creates a soft color okay now
while that dries let's start our next bookmark you can see here the first my
first marker that I laid down the red color
I hadn't closed the cap properly the previous time and it's kind of dried out
a bit but for the watercolor technique it will work perfectly fine and you'll
see that now so for this bookmark I decided to use the entire pack of colors
I mean why stop at one color when you can use them all right now I'm gonna
pick up some water on my paintbrush and just paint across each color I'm
painting along the colors I'm not painting vertically and mixing all the
colors I want the colors to kind of form stripes here another thing that I've
learned a lot while water coloring with the dual brush pens is you don't want to
keep painting over and over again I just go over the pigment once or twice until
everything is activated by the water or until you have the watercolor look and
feel and then I try to stop myself so basically all the art is created by the
water itself anyhow so once I have all the stripes
painted I already like this I mean I want to keep it just like this but I
want to also try try and make some designs with the alcohol so I'm placing
my stencil on top and the paper is kind of curved not because of all the water
I've added and the stencil sits just in the center of the top center of the
bookmark but I just went ahead and added a few drops of alcohol into the Triangle
area of the stencil I just want to create some kind of light and dark shade
going on on the bookmark I'm not really sure at this point what I want how I
want to go forward with this bookmark so just gonna let it dry for a few minutes
in the meanwhile I'm gonna go ahead and do the same thing and create another
bookmark so I just went ahead again and colored each and every color onto the
watercolor paper and painted over it with water same thing as before but this
time while the water was all wet I just picked up some alcohol onto my cotton
swab and I started adding dots onto the bookmark you can see so clearly those
big dots of alcohol but the alcohol does is it sits on the paper and kind of
pushes the water color around it while using the paintbrush I was able to get
little circles but with a cotton swab it was so much easier to get the circle
shape but I want to go ahead and make this a little more detailed
so I dipped my paintbrush into the alcohol and I'm spraying with it you
know how you did this like kids you dip an old toothbrush into either paint and
then you spray it I'm kind of doing that at the alcohol here I also want to
mention rubbing alcohol has a strong smell so you want to make sure you do
this in a nice well-ventilated area so I sprayed a lot of dots here tiny tiny
dots and you can see it creates a nice disturbed pattern in the back I'm going
to let this dry because really I love how it looks and I'm so scared to move
it at this point I can see now that the second bookmark that I created it's kind
of dried a bit so I went ahead and did the same thing on it I picked up the
alcohol with my cotton swab and started adding little dots and since the water
color had kind of dried a bit the alcohol softens it very slightly again
creates a nice effect is actually pretty dramatic at the end and this just goes
to show that you can add the alcohol on top of nice watery watercolor or on top
of something that's dry a little bit the paper here was still damp it wasn't
completely dried mine since the papers so thick I think that's why the alcohol
is able to still move the pigment around this one turned out to be even cuter
than the other one because the colors are so soft and there were so many
different hues and shades created because of this so after everything
dried here is a look at the bookmarks I love the way this turned out and I
really think this is a technique that you should just try play and have fun
with okay before I leave here is a quick
glimpse at the lettering I created I created all three of these the same day
I had drawn a pencil outline so I knew where I wanted my words to be I spray
put some color on to the blending palette and I pick it up to do an
indirect watercolor method for the bookmarks I did a direct coloring method
I colored with the marker directly on the paper this time I colored onto my
blending palette and I picked that up and I colored in all the words then I
added some alcohol let things bleed and then I just fiddled with this a little
bit more until I reached a color saturation that I liked I love this
quote a lot and I love the way this turned out alcohol inks are really
popular right now and I'm trying really hard to not go and buy a few for myself
so instead I'm using what I have on hand and trying to create the effect that
you're seeing everywhere let me know in the comments below if you think I should
explore this technique more if you just want to see another fun video like this
so make sure you stop by my blog smiling colors calm I have a blog post about
this entire process all the supplies that I've used and also you find so much
more information there about all the techniques I share on my channel here
thanks so much for spending your time with me today friends so till I see you
again happy crafting
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