Keeping It Light

The technique used to create the image below is complete different than yesterday's technique.  The clouds were created by mixing a small amount of ink with blending solution on a palette, then making small circles on the YUPO with the blending block (felt fabric on a wooden block.)  Drops of blending solution were dropped on the pale blue circles and further blended, creating the lighter cloud areas. 

Once the clouds were dry, some purple was blended in and quickly blotted off with paper toweling.  Green blades of grass were added with a close-to-dry script brush with green alcohol ink.  The final spattering was also with the very tip of the fine script paint brush to create each dot.  Keeping the brush as dry as possible and still carrying the alcohol color limited the amount of bleed in each dot.  If you look carefully, however, you will notice that each dot did bleed a little.....this would not look the same with a mister, a bigger brush tip, or a wetter brush.

The image below was done using the same blending technique, the misting the edges with blue ink, then purple ink, and then with blending solution.   I also blew through a drinking straw in the hope of creating a few branch-like appendages. 

I went in after all was dry with FW acrylic ink (non-alcohol,) to add the lizard.  I little whimsy for a piece I probably would have tossed ......and still might!