Hey everybody! In today's video I'm going to be doing a
special close-up on Fadeout Ink as a celebration of Inktober. I have a guest
post at Hedgehog Hollow today, so I want to show you my favorite no
line coloring Fadeout ink from Inkon3. You guys haveve seen me talk about
this - with some new stamp sets from Inkon3 that are holiday themed, or can
be used throughout the year. This fun little poinsettia is actually a
companion set to this larger set with the cross, and so I'm going to show you how
you can use those together. I'll be using this fluid watercolor paper today. A lot
of people ask how to get a watercolor paper off the block - you just need a
palette knife or a tool like I'm using here just to put between the pages and
free that paper from the block. I am using cold press watercolor paper today.
So I have that little piece set up in my MISTI, and I have the largest poinsettia
from the set on the lid of my mini MISTI, and I also have a mask that I've cut out
of my favorite masking paper - I'll link you to that below and I'll show you how
I use Fadeout ink. Now this is truly a magical ink - it was formulated to be
perfectly neutral in color so it just fades out into your project without
leaving a line that you notice, and you'll see that I'm stamping it several
times. This is because I'm old and my vision is not that great. I also wanted
to make sure that you are able to see the image on the video. I usually only
stamp it once or twice but I wanted this to be visible for you guys. Also I'm
sitting in front of a window and so it's going to get sunny and then cloudy and
so it might be harder for you to see. Now the reason that it's important that
the ink is neutral is no matter what medium you're using the Fadeout ink
with. I'm using watercolor today but it works great with pencils, Copics,
whatever you're colouring with - it's perfect,
but the neutrality of the ink color is what gives you the true no line
look. It's not disappearing ink - it just blends so perfectly with any color
because of its neutrality, that that is why it's called Fadeout. So I have this
poinsettia I've masked sort of in the center of this piece of cardstock, which I will
be trimming down, and I'm going to position the leaves
from the set behind the poinsettia, and when you're masking you're always
working backwards. So that's why the image you stamp first is in front and
then after it's masked and I stamped the images on top of it, those images will be
behind with the cross being the thing in the far background. So poinsettia first,
then leaves then the cross and that's the order that you'll stamp and mask in.
So I'll stamp these a couple times again, so that you can see this marvelous ink
on the watercolor paper, and then those are ready to mask. Usually
when I'm using Fadeout ink - it is so pale and it is waterproof so you can use
it with any of those mediums like I said - with Copics, with watercolor, with markers,
with pencils - but I don't even really clean my stamps
just because it is so pale and it's not going to transfer but I will talk to you
about cleaning in just a minute. Now I have some little masks again that
I've cut out of that scrap that you saw me using - this is the most economical way
to mask and I really like it it doesn't damage your paper so you'll see a supply
list below the video. Now I know it's funny I'm doing sort of
a Christmas/ poinsettia / holiday themed video but I have my little ghosts on my
nails because it's almost Halloween, so I have a little thematic difference
today. I love this cross image because it's big enough to color. I'm
going to color it and make it look sort of like there's a little bit of light
shining on it with the way that I'm going to watercolor it but you have plenty
of room to arrange the flowers and the leaves from the set onto this image, and
that's the way it was designed. So now I'll remove the masks and I can get ready
to paint this image. A lot of times when I create a mask I'll just stick it on
the packaging of the stamp set, so that I have it with me every time. This one
would be a good candidate since these companion sets are made to go together.
Now because the Fadeout ink is so pale you'll want to make sure that your
stamps are totally clean when you go to stamp with it. Make sure they don't have
any residual black or other ink on the stamp because that can contaminate this
beautiful pale neutral ink. So they have their own ink cleaner which you saw
there - that will get your stamps back to brand new again so I do recommend doing
that. Now I'm using Daniel Smith watercolor today and right before I sat
down to film this second part of the video I panned some watercolor splits. I
have a group on Facebook where I split tubes of Daniel Smith watercolor into
half pans so that people can afford these incredible artist grade
watercolors and I got a little bit of burnt sienna on my finger so it looks
like I injured myself but I didn't! I just have paint on myself like I do all
the time because I love to watercolor. I have placed the watercolor into this
little floral mixing dish. You always want to mix on ceramic, not on metal or
plastic - those will just bead up and not give you the pools of paint like you see
me using here. I usually paint down water first and
then I put my first color which you can see is sort of a blue red up the top of
the dish into the water and then I add the more orangey red that you see below
and I let that fade out into the wet petal on the paper. Then in the center of
each leaf I'm giving myself a dark shadow which I will later add detailed
veining to with a darker gray, and then eventually a dark red, but watercolor is
all about layering light amounts of color and adding detail so you work from
light to dark, and this will be much darker and bolder when I'm finished, but
you need to start with your lightest colors and add detail and depth as you
go. For the leaves I'm going to keep them
pretty pale. I have a green that I felt like was very harmonious with the reds
that I chose as well as the yellow color in the center of the poinsettia, and to
make those little round dots that you see I just sort of made an O with my
paintbrush so that I could leave in an area of light because that makes it look
a little bit more realistic. Now I'm blending the Payne's gray and the green
together in the dish to give me a more neutral vein shadow that I'm going to put
in the center of these leaves and then I use almost pure Payne's gray to add
shadowing and detail beneath the flower. I'll add more and more of this as I go I
am always letting pieces of my painting dry while I work on other things, so I
don't finish things in order if that makes sense. Now you can see as I'm
painting that when you first put watercolor or any water medium down on
top of this ink it actually makes the ink line a bit more visible for a minute.
This is kind of the genius of her invention - it will actually grab that
watercolor for a second and you'll be able to really see that line
and then over time that will fade as it dries,
but it makes it a lot easier to do no-line watercoloring. I'm using the Paynes gray for
the cross and like I said I wanted it to look like there was a little bit of
light in the center of each section,
so I'm leaving that area white and painting around it and I will come in
with deeper shadows all over the cross where the more three-dimensional items
are touching it as we go.
Whenever I do sped-up watercolor videos like this it's evident to me how much I
spin my work as I'm painting. I guess for me the angle of my brush on the design
is really important, but I don't really notice when I'm painting until I'm
editing the video and then it kind of cracks me up.
So I'll go around and add a little bit of depth under all of these areas
and underneath the leaves.
The fact that this ink is so neutral is such a big game
changer for me. I used to almost always start with a yellow or gray ink for my
no line coloring and I found that yellow always persisted
no matter how much paint I added I could always see like a bright edge to the
objects that I was painting, and it worked for a while, until Fleurette invented
this ink and then my life was changed forever! Gray dulled my images at the
edges and so having an ink like this that truly does not show up in your
finished work has just made this process more enjoyable and you'll actually
notice that if you take a look at my YouYube channel
that after this ink came out the number of no-line watercoloring videos increased
dramatically. That's always the case when you get a new tool that sort of
changes your stamping life, sort of like the MISTI. I always find myself producing
a lot more art when I have the right tools - that's one of the fun things about
Inktober is getting to learn all about the new tools and supplies that other
artists use. I've always loved Inktober. I discovered it first when I was on
Periscope years ago, and I found so many great artists and bought so much fun art
and so many fun supplies based on the people that participate in this event,
and of course I love ink! I'm a stamper, so how could I say no to this? So if you
have any questions about Fadeout ink or the process of using it you can always
contact me via my blog, and check out the finished card with the deep dark darks
that really make it pop - that's my favorite - and thanks so much for watching!
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