[113] Real-time Abstract Alcohol Ink Art Tutorial

A real time tutorial on this painting technique was requested by several of you, so here it is! I am loving the way these paintings turn out so much that it's hard to switch back to my usual styles lol. These are still abstract, but there is just so much more going on in them than my usual wispies. I hope you love this one as much as I do! This fiery, bright, abstract painting is done on EVO synthetic art paper (by Etc. Papers), using Tim Holtz / Ranger alcohol ink colors Crimson, Valencia, and Sunshine Yellow, along with Jacquard's Pinata brass metallic alcohol ink. I used 99% isopropyl alcohol and my Revlon styling brush hair dryer (on the cool setting) with the brush attachment removed.
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[@MrLindasarine]

Reminds me of a great marriage! Husband is the rectangle, wife the circle! Different but where they overlap, perfection!

[@wtglb]

I love the colors & the shapes ❤️👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@LorrieBrewer]

Thank you! I’m looking forward to getting to try some other shapes one day soon. I need to go shopping at the thrift store and dollar store for some interesting things!

[@MrLindasarine]

Thank you so much! Great idea and video! Beautiful!!!!!

[@burgundylicious]

Love the cookie cutter idea! This is gorgeous, thanks for sharing!

[@LorrieBrewer]

Thank you for the compliment! Now I just have to find some cookie cutters or other interesting shapes to try!

[@burgundylicious]

@@LorrieBrewer , i ran with your idea and did a diamond shape, a heart, and a teddy bear 😂 I'm using the world's smallest blower for my air, and i keep forgetting to turn it off when I'm adding more fluid or ink and i end up splattering it before it hits the paper! 😂😂 But I'm getting better. I really can't thank you enough for your videos. ❤️
I've also used a fill-able water brush (filled with the blending solution) and used it to try drawing flowers haha!
Thank you for being such an inspiration ❤️

[@christinecloutier4015]

Your work is so beautiful

[@suz-d]

gorgeous! I was just playing with ideas of how to create geometric shapes to create a mid century modern artwork commission for a client. Grabbing my old canning jars now. Thank you !!

[@LorrieBrewer]

You are very welcome! I can’t wait to get to try some other, varied shapes with this. I need to make a trip to the thrift store and dollar store lol.

[@maryannknox7158]

Thank You 🙏 for this video for explaining this method I so appreciate it

[@artgeometrix6346]

So cool. Really impressive work indeed.

[@LorrieBrewer]

Thank you very much! I appreciate it!

[@kjfromoz]

One day I will master the wispy technique : ) thank you for your tutorials.

[@LorrieBrewer]

You’ll get there as long as you hang in there with it. It can be tricky to learn, but it’s worth it!

[@frazzledhaloz3184]

The color mix was dramatically beautiful! Love it!

[@LorrieBrewer]

Thank you so much! I’m glad I went with the “hot” colors for this one. They really do make the painting pop.

[@rosalindhofer4973]

Love your ideas. ❤😊

[@LorrieBrewer]

Thank you! I hope they inspire you to try some of them, as well as some of your own!

[@renebrooks8499]

Absolutely LOVE this one! Can't wait to try it.

[@josettearmstrong9640]

I’m going to try and attempt to do this tomorrow. You make it look so easy I’m gonna try so hard not to blend my colors

[@maryannknox7158]

Wow so interesting love it 🥰

[@juliemorrison3746]

I’ve bought your drier from Amazon and I live in Australia 🇦🇺. The postage was so expensive and now I’ve found I can’t use it because it is 110v and we have 240v in Australia. You can’t use an adapter for the plug but it is dangerous. I’ve been trying to find one here but it’s so hard as our our brushes have such high wattage. 1200w. I have a travel hair dryer which is 500w but it’s too hot. I have a really good hair dryer which has cold setting but the wattage is extremely high as it is a commercial grade hair dryer plus it’s too good to use and get ink all over it. I just don’t know what to do.

[@ashley898411]

I just can't get that whispy look no matter how hard I try! I keep getting lines it doesn't flow out. Maybe it's the paper I'm using it just stains too quick. I'll give grafix a try, this yupo is driving me nuts . But yes, lines lines and more lines. I perfected the roses super easy because of it. It seems to be the only thing I can do :/

[@battygirlrachel]

I wonder if you could use like a lite grey alcohol marker to trace the circle and remove the template then add your colors over top? Thinking lite grey cause it would probably interfere the least with the colors... I tend to be clumsy and am afraid I would put too much color down trying not to tip the template over lol

[@LorrieBrewer]

That’s something you could try, but I’m not sure the inks would stay where you want them good enough like that. You may lose most of the actual circle from the ink spreading before it dries. I don’t have any ink markers so I can’t try that lol. I have never invested in any since I wasn’t sure I could get the depth of color that I do from the bottled ink. I really should get some and play around with them, though. You don’t need to use something tall, just heavy, to keep it from tipping easily. I just used what I had handy in the house that I wasn’t worried about staining. A glass plate would work just as good. I just wasn’t sure if our white ones would stain lol.

[@battygirlrachel]

@@LorrieBrewer you could use a sharpie or bic mark it... I've used just markers for alcohol ink techniques (a good one is coloring a stencil with tjdm and spritzing alcohol over it to print it) but I don't think they would work too good for what you do. I was thinking of using it to trace and then use the bottled ink to go back over it