Creative Chemistry 101 Day Six

Oops posted day 7 first lol... so here is day 6 as well :) Day 6 was markers. Although a lot of my colours are no where near the distrerss colours I still had a lot of fun playing with these :) I also tried some of the techniques with my faber castells. As you will see from my pics though more practice is needed! lol

One thing I still want to try is seeing if I can use both together in a project... :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

What Paper To Use For Big Brush Markers

Ok so I have recently bought the Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen Big Brush Markers. I have been buying loads of different papers t try them on. Everything from manila to regular art journals, sketchbooks etc.

I tried whisper white Stampin' Up and it was ok but I was hoping I could find better. I have yet to try watercolour paper. When I find my pad I will. I bought two different manila's, a Kmart brand and then Avery manila folders in buff. The avery manila is pretty good, especially if you want to mute the colour tones a little. They come out almost pastely.

I bought a Reno Art sketchpad from a cheapy shop in sydney. It was the best of the bunch I had in my house when I bought my marker. Yes better than the whisper white. The paper is 140gsm so nice and thick and it takes the colour well. There is a little bleeding though.

So in my quest to find something easily accessible to me I went to a local shop that sells a fair bit of Monte Marte products. I actually went to get gesso brushes lol. I left them there for next time! What I did get was a Monte Marte sketchbook in A4 size. The papers are 150gsm almost cardstock like.

Ok so here is what I have discovered so far. Brilliant for colouring images. There is no bleeding. I need to work on my technique for laying colour down in big patches lol. You can make anything look better with mist! Blending is great for small sections but not as good if you try to do large sections at a time.

Neenah is supposed to be great but it is hard to source in Australia and post from the US is phenomenally expensive! So I have yet to try it. I do have a small pack in my SimonSaysStamp wishlist for next time I do an order. Another I would like to try is the Copic Xpress-it paper.

And here I am a couple days later and have bought a francheville sketchbook as well... It's pretty good for markers too. Not great for blending tho as its similar to watercolour and the ink sinks right in.

Tbh I really don't know what is best I am testing as I find. How do you colour with no streaks? I find small circles leave just as many line marks if not more lol...

Any tips please let me know :)
Thanks for reading!
Purple

Purple Rain

My first Journal Page!

Ok so you already know I bought a new journal today. You also know I drew a picture... So the two go hand in hand and I decided to do my first proper art journal page :).

I wanted to use a Tim Holtz stamp but the one I had wasn't big enough :( So I took my metal ruler and a sharpie and drew my own rays. I then coloured the rays in.

I completed colouring and hated the straight lines! So I added a bit extra to my lines ;) I then grabbed a Pitt Big Brush Marker in Light Pthalo Green and filled in in between the lines. I like the streakiness of both markers on this journal paper as it lends to the ray feeling.  In fact I tried to make them extra streaky! lol

I grabbed some Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps from a bunch of sets and my Picket Fence Distress Stain and stamped various images around the rays. Love love love the dropping butterfly! I then grabbed my Snow Cap Paint Dabber and used the stamp with the words Love wish dream on it at the bottom of the page over the top of the other images :)

You can also see in the above pic a a few extra colours lol I was testing my pitt markers to see which I would use...

I then grabbed an Autum Leaves Stampology alpha to stamp Purples Journal in black stazon. I noticed at this point the white paint was lifting some of the stazon colour into it. Good to know for future reference!