Paint and Ink in my Art Journal.

It is week two in the Season of Dreams from the Get Messy Art Journal community and as well as prompt ideas, we have some great tutorials.

I often mix ink and paint, but these pages use two different ideas which I interpreted using acrylic with ink pen and watercolor with a Micron Pigma pen.

The first page was a deliberate attempt to finger paint flower shaped images with acrylic paints and when it dried I went into nearly every ‘flower’ with a nib pen and ink to add lots of flowery detail.

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I approached the second page quite differently, the base layer is a very loose array of watercolour blobs in a minimal colour choice. Once the colour dried I looked into the images in front of me and pulled out any creatures I could imagine. I used the colour and the negative space to find lots of imaginary dream-like beings. When I was splashing colour around the page, I was not at all sure what I would find to draw, if anything at all. Once I grabbed my pen and looked at the page carefully, there they were, creatures waiting to be drawn.