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What Are You Waiting For?

For Beginners and up!

Let's Explore pigments and dyes to create some lovely shimmers and sparkle in your alcohol ink and watercolors. Get your supplies ready ... and let's start having fun creating a few colors and the shell scene together!

Play and Create with Metallic Pigments

Explore how to create shimmering colors in your mediums

  • 1

    How to create your own Iridescent Shimmer with your Mediums

  • 2

    Creating Watercolor Iridescent Colors

    • Adding Pigments to Watercolors on Watercolor Paper

    • Bombay Inks & Waterbrush Pen

    • More Options for Powdered Pigments

    • Tips

  • 3

    Alcohol Ink Shell with Shimmer

    • Tracing Quick Tip

    • Shell #1 PDF

    • Using Masking Fluid

    • Adding Ink and Shimmer

    • Begin the Background

    • Adding a Dry Shimmer

    • Finishing with some Zen Doodle work

    • Project time

  • 4

    A few more PDF Shells to play with!

    • Shell # 2 PDF

    • Shell #3 PDF

  • 5

    BONUS LECTURES: Mood Boards can help organize your creative ideas

    • What is a Mood Board

    • How to create a Mood Board

    • Congrats guys and thank you for participating!

In the Course we will Cover

  • Dye's vs Pigments

  • How to create Shimmering colors with alcohol inks and watercolors.

  • How to use a Water-brush pen to create shimmery letters

  • Finally we will talk a little bit about creating a Mood board

  • As a bonus I've added two more printable PDF's of shell

What Students have to say:

5 star rating

Fun Class

Diane Maley

Thoroughly enjoyed this class. It was quick, easy level, and fun.

Thoroughly enjoyed this class. It was quick, easy level, and fun.

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What Are You Waiting For?

For Beginners and up!

Creating Shimmer with different mediums - play and explore creating fun Iridescence colors and watch the changes of color.Creating Shimmer with different mediums - play and explore creating fun Iridescence colors and watch the changes of color.