INKED LANDSCAPES (ZOMBIES)

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I love any excuse to be able to use my liquid acrylic inks and the combination of acrylic inks and bleach gives wonderful effects. I have created a different effect using salt with fluid acrylic paint and rock salt but the bleach just takes it to the next level. Credit must go to Lydia from Splitcoaststampers for the specific acrylic ink/bleach technique. I must also blame her for my obsessive search for some Zombie stamps. So very glad I found them as they suit this style so well. 

Mainly black was used for this technique but as you can see from Kraken below, coloured acrylic inks will still work. However, you can't beat black for the moodiness that suits the zombie stamps perfectly! The Vegan Zombie background colour is a combination of Carbon Black and Prussian Blue (both Liquitex Acrylic Inks). The addition of gel pens creates easy highlights where needed. The shark fin was made by cutting a small fin shape from craft foam and attaching it to a piece of acetate and used as a stamp. What's the saying about necessity being the mother of invention? 😉

"Vegan Zombie"


"Kraken"

"Middle of the night"

"Thrilled to meat you"

"Dead people"

"Grab a bite"

BRUSHOS & OTHER POWDERS

 Highly pigmented powders like Brushos, Cosmic Pixie Powders, Nuvo Shimmer Powders, Lindy's Magical Shakers etc have been around for a few years now and they are always a quick and easy way to create a background.  You can use them as they are, just a few gentle shakes, spritz with water and you get wonderful explosions of colour, or you can spritz your watercolour card first with water and then add. You can also just mix a single colour by itself on a piece of acetate to create one colour and use that for painting your background or your stamped designs. I've used a few different ways to create these backgrounds, including bleaching out a stamped image and then re-colouring with the pigment powders!

"Soul food"
(background & leaf shape coloured with Brusho
& Lindy's Magical Shaker powder)

"Soar"
(background created with Lindy's Magical

Shakers, trees stamped and Twinklets Diamond Dust

under the trees for extra sparkle)

"What the flock?"

(background using black Brushos only, then

bleached the stamped birds and re-coloured

with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)

"Curiosities"

(background with Nuvo Shimmer Powders and

Cosmic Pixie Powders, stamped skulls bleached

and re-coloured with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)


"If lost"

(background with Lindy's Magical Shakers &

Cosmic Pixie Powders, octopus stamped, embossed

and bleached)

"Wild side"

(background with Brushos and finger-painted

to blend, then Amsterdam Bronze paint applied

roughly on the bottom, overstamped with rocks

stamp and Amsterdam Pewter paint added. Tree

is JAC paper die-cut with brown foil applied)

"Let's party"

My granddaughter (7) wanted to do one herself

so this is her version of my What the flock?  She used

my stamp positioner so stamping was easy, I did the

bleaching for her and showed her how to colour

the birds with the Nuvo Shimmer Powders. She's

going to gift it to a friend at a holiday park we

are going to next week. 🥰