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STEP 7: With Raspberry, place some dots of color on the surface, under the Sailboat Blue – this will start to blend. This is good! Cover half of the white area above the horizon line. (Refer to Inks Step 2.)
STEP 8: Stamp over the Raspberry working up over the Sailboat Blue (in a horizontal line at first to blend). This will cause a new color to appear – Violet. (Refer to Inks Step 3.)
STEP 9: Change felt pad. Add dots of Raspberry and Sunshine Yellow. (Refer to Felts Step 3A.)
STEP 10: Add dots of Sunshine Yellow below the Rasp- berry, filling up the rest of the space. (Refer to Ink Step 4.) STEP 11: Stamp to blend these two together, leaving the Sunshine Yellow center section unblended – keep it more of a pure yellow. Then work the stamp up toward the violet. You will have created another color – more of a red. Continue on to the top in a diagonal direction (horizontal can be so boring!) – you may lose all the blue or maybe just a little will be left in the upper left corner. You decide how much you want to blend. (Refer to Inks Step 5.)
STEP 12: If the dots are too large or blend out too much then wait just a moment and stamp again lightly. Every time you stamp, as the inks dry, the dots will be smaller. Check how your sky looks, and if it appears too dark re- stamp with felt that has the colors you used before. If you want to lighten the blue then use the blue felt, add a few drops of alcohol on it and stamp over the area you want to change. Do this for any other area that might be too dark. I lightened this picture with more Raspberry and Sunshine Yellow losing the really dark areas that occurred when the inks blended. If it gets too dry then put a little more alcohol on the pad and proceed.
STEP 13: Get ready with the Dust-Off Electronics Dust- er, Sunshine Yellow and a no. 2 round. Pour a little bit of Sunshine Yellow in a cup; load the tip of the brush and place in the yellow area for the sun. Let it run very slight- ly. (Refer to Inks Step 6.) Note: This might be a good place to stop and practice on the tile. Blow with Dust-Off Electronics Duster (use a light touch – not a blast). This will cause rays of yellow to go out over the red. (Refer to Inks Step 7.) Repeat if the sun is not round enough or you want more rays. Realize that every time you add color it will create a darker line around the sun–this is okay. Or for the last coat try using the HYPO 200 bottle with alcohol to round out the sun. Just drip one drop of alcohol over the sun circle and use the Q-Tip to clean up the inside of the sun. This will not add any more color but that may not be necessary.
STEP 14: Place Sailboat Blue in a cup and add a couple drops of alcohol (makes the color a little more transpar-
ent). With a flat brush, apply paint horizontally, under the sun, across paper and continue down to bottom of paper, overlapping as you go. (Refer to Inks Step 8.) Be- cause my sun was bigger than I wanted, I began this ap- plication above the horizon line to make the sun a better size. This created a slight sunglow in the water, which is just fine, and the color turned a slight green. You may need to reload brush a couple times.
STEP 15: Repeat until you are happy with the results. It could end up quite smooth or choppier, depending on how many times you go over it.
STEP 16: Pour Teakwood into a cup and, using a no. 2 or no. 4 round brush, load the brush lightly and tap onto surface creating the hills with texture – looking like rocks. (Refer to Inks Step 9.) Keep adding paint and tap- ping until happy with the effect. Pour Butterscotch into a cup, load the same brush and tap a little bit on the part of the hills closest to the sun. This will warm it up and make it a little more transparent. Continue until you are happy with the results.
STEP 17: With a small round (no. 2 or so), dip into Teakwood and bring a little bit of the hills into the ocean creating a reflection.
CREATING THE TREE, GRASSES
AND REEDS SILHOUETTE
STEP 1: Place tree along the left side of the paper from bottom to top using a no. 4 or no. 6 flat and Pitch Black. This could be done on the right side if you want to cover some area that you are not crazy about. Go over it until coverage is achieved. Make sure the edge is uneven, not straight. (Refer to Inks Step 10.)
STEP 2: Place a clean felt on the stamper. Dot Pitch Black, rather heavily, on surface. (Refer to Felts Step 4A.) Stamp in the foliage at the base of the paper and stamp it up into the water until you like how the area looks. This should be solid at the bottom but at the top, over the wa- ter, it will be random and loose. (Refer to Inks Step 11.) STEP 3: Set up barrier around your piece. To create the foliage, since I am right handed, I will have the Dust-Off Electronics Duster can in my right hand and place the Pitch Black with my left hand. Place dots of Pitch Black over the already stamped black at random. With every placement of Pitch Black blow with air immediately. If the dot is horizontal it will fill up the area a bit more. If placed vertically, it will go more straight up. The thing about this technique is that you can never predict how it will turn out. Do a lot of practicing so that you feel com- fortable with the procedure and enjoy the process. (Refer to Inks Step 12.)
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