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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Watercolor Journal at Utica Reservoir

I look forward to my annual camping trip to the Sierra Nevada mountains so I can play in my journal. This year I have a journal that has dark paper in it and I wanted to have my sketch go across the page. The granite was lighter than the dark paper, so I used a white opaque Sharpie pen. I tapped it on the paper to get the ink flowing. Because of the elevation (7,000 ft.) I got a blop of white ink. Oops. I sort of blotted it up with a paper towel. I liked the effect, but was afraid if I did it again I might loose all the white ink out of the pen. When the white dried it was not water soluble, so I was able to use watercolor over it.

4 comments:

  1. I was wondering how you did the granite across the two colors . . . . brilliant!

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  2. Love this, Gay! Would have loved to see your face when the Sharpie misbehaved :) Great job making the oops work for you!

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  3. Gay, I've been loving your work this summer in both Cathy's Aritist's Journal Workshop and An Illustrated Life. While working in my own journal this summer I was wondering what kind of white pen I could use in my journal, then, coincidentally I was checking on all of the blogs I love upon my return from a very long sailing trip and lo and behold, you've written about a white pen. Took out my Dick Blick to see the Sharpies. Are you using the fine point waterbased sharpie? Any other suggestions??

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  4. Thanks Kelly,
    The Sharpie I was using was a borrowed one so I don't have it here to look at. But it was not water soluble, so it must have been the oil based one. It was a fine point.
    Happy Journaling!

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