Technique #5: Glaze pen resist

This is quite a fun technique and I love using it. You can use it many different ways with different media... make sure you experiment once you understand how it works.

Materials:

• Sakura white Glaze pen
• watercolors (you can use ink also)
• paper
• stamp (optional)
• pen & ink, colored pencils, gel pens, markers, ... something to embelish and finish your piece

Steps:

1. Add some color to your paper (I used one of my hand-carved stamps printed with watercolors)
   
2. Draw over your colored background with the white Sakura Glaze pen (I go over the edges of the designs on the paper, making sure the lines I'm drawing are going over the colored paper - not the white). The pen is "saving" the colors you are going over, as it will dry transparent.


3. Once the glaze pen ink is dry, go over the entire piece with a glaze of watercolors or ink. This will mute the background and make the lines you drew stand out. You can do as many layers as you want.
4. Once your piece is dry you can embelish it with additional paint, colored pencils, gel pens, pen and ink.... anything you can think of.
5. Have fun!!!
   Here is a finished piece (above) and another at the bottom. Both used this technique with watercolors, colored pencils and pen & ink.

I have a couple of pieces using this technique in my Etsy shop if you want to take a look:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6747595

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6732438

I'm also working on a couple of other pieces, one of them (which I'm really enjoying) using iridescent ink. Please post a comment or email me if you are interested in seeing that piece. I can add it to the post once I'm done.