Post #244010 by little lost tiki on Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:31 PM

Good Guesses-Thanks for playing! Started with wet stained watercolor paper/you fill your dropper with ink and press it down on the surface where you'd like a line to show like an underdrawing(see on the hand)I started with blue-then i grabbed a wet sponge brush and spread the blue out towards the end of the paper-keeping the lighter color to define mr.tiki's shape.the feathers on the top were a mix of pressing down real hard on the dropper but just letting a teeny bit of ink thru(don't want a blob now do ya?)Then I grabbed the red (i think i was daydreaming about those red and blue 3-d glasses)and with the dropper drew out the eyes,lips,chest (of course the paper is drying a bit so the ink begins to bleed outward (resembling Tikiduddy's suggestion of blowing ink with a straw -which it does a bit I admit,but no splatters-a much cleaner spread of ink-like lil' arteries)Now the final touch -ever so simple,ever so subtle,but ever so important....I bet you're wondering what that is.....The background texture!Here's a fun tip that works better with ink but also works with gouache and watercolors.Grab a paper towel(2-ply-preferably decorated with bears or ducks-just kiddin),crumple it up and blot it down here and there and it creates an old wrinkled,rocky texture as it picks up ink BUT deposits it back down from the folds stickin out! I mostly stayed in the blue-but blotted it on the red just to bring that shade into the background a bit!Fun to do-but probably not half as fun as Hewey's burnt paper thing!http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=19657&forum=18&start=30There's nothing like smelling a campfire while you're making art!