Creative Alcohol Ink Flowers
A Step-by-Step Guide to 20 Stunning Floral Designs
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Join world-renowned artist and online instructor Anne Roos to create stunning floral art, step by step, using alcohol inks.
Creative Alcohol Ink Flowers offers a fresh, inspiring approach to alcohol inks, focusing on the beauty of floral designs. Through captivating projects with simple, stepped-out instructions, this book invites you to explore the vibrant possibilities of alcohol inks and bring your favorite flowers to life. Even if you’re a beginner, the author’s expertise and approachable teaching style make it easy to dive into the medium, transforming simple blobs of ink into breathtaking florals.
From roses and sunflowers to poppies and hydrangeas, each project demonstrates essential techniques for creating realistic, organic forms. Learn popular methods such as blowing, using heat tools, masking, and embellishing to achieve stunning effects. Creative Alcohol Ink Flowers also covers essential tools and materials, tips for troubleshooting, and advice on sealing and preserving artwork so you can take your art to new heights.
Inside, you’ll find:
20 beautiful floral projectsTools and materials lists so you know exactly what to purchaseDetailed techniques and tips for blowing, masking, and heat tool methodsFinishing strategies to seal and frame your art QR codes to videos explaining various techniques
Whether you’re a novice or an experienced artist wanting to try something new with alcohol inks, Creative Alcohol Ink Flowers helps you bring the vibrant beauty of flowers into your art.
Perfect for creative beginners, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.
Also available from the series:Brilliant Inks, Creative Alcohol Inks, Creative Watercolor, Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, Creative Gouache, Creative Acrylics, and Creative Drawing: Symbols and Sacred Geometry.
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Dutch artist Smink debuts with a colorful guide to painting floral patterns with alcohol ink, a mix of alcohol and dyes. Once they're applied to a smooth, nonporous surface, like synthetic paper, the inks can be manipulated into various designs using a squeezable air blower, heat, or paint brushes. Crafters will also need isopropyl alcohol to enhance and dilute the fluidity of the inks ("What water is to watercolor paint," Smink explains, "isopropyl alcohol is to alcohol inks"). Since the materials release fumes, Smink recommends wearing protective gear like a respirator and safety goggles. Step-by-step instructions are included for creating 20 different flower designs, including poppies, wildflowers, hydrangeas, and daisies. They range in difficulty from beginner to advanced, so crafters can work their way up from a simple rose to a detailed bouquet. Smink urges consistent practice and patience, as the inks can be difficult to control and often seem to have "a mind of their own." Throughout, photos elucidate the steps in each project. The book's most eye-catching patterns are its most surprising, as when quick strokes of color, splatters of bright pink ink, and a paper towel unite to form a dizzying field of blooms. Flower lovers will relish this beautiful volume.
