jofox9973 posted: " This week I played around some more with my new alcohol markers. I had some more of the thick acrylic paper I used for the poppy so I used that for this little octopus. I began with a simple outline which I painted over with watercolour. I wanted " jo fox - adventures in art Read on blog or Reader Green Octopus – Mixed Media jofox9973 January 26 This week I played around some more with my new alcohol markers. I had some more of the thick acrylic paper I used for the poppy so I used that for this little octopus. I began with a simple outline which I painted over with watercolour. I wanted a sea green background with patches of sunshine leaking into the water... Then I laid down a full layer of my lightest colour for the octopus. You can see the colours I chose next to the painting... I gradually built up the colours and blended them as well as I could. In order to work out which colours to blend I tried a blend of all four on copy paper. To my surprise the copy paper blended the markers much more effectively than the acrylic paper I was using for my final design. I used the acrylic paper because it completely stopped the ink from bleeding through. I wonder if I need to get some different paper for these pens? Maybe they need a certain amount of bleed-through to blend properly? I will have to do some research on that. Here's the final image... Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment.

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