The Blending Solution Addition

Remember this image from a couple of days ago  I felt the image from the July 10th post needed a little "extra," so decided to enhance the petals with a little blending solution.....

Alcohol inks on YUPO, thoroughly dried, then reworked with Copic blending solution on a fine script brush.

It really seems to have made a difference going back in to rework portions of the ink-on-YUPO that has dried for a couple of days.  Using blending solution in this way also allowed me to have significantly more control that with the drop-and-apply-air method originally used to lay down the first set of colors. The blending solution was applied with a very fine, long-bristle script brush - I was going for the finest continuous line possible and hoped that the long fibers would carry enough solution to run the full length of the petals.  In most situations, this worked out pretty well.

The pollen "dots" were made using the tip of the same brush and setting down the solution-loaded bristles, one at a time.  No matter how dry I got the brush, many of the dots are larger than I wanted, but still acceptable. 

The addition of the blending solution in this way, took this image from one of "place it in the file for future reference," to - might make a giclee for stationary......hmmmm.   Sometimes patience and persistence are virtues, ah?