I’ve been so inspired by the abstract work other artists make with Yupo, I thought I’d experiment a little on some well used, scrappy Yupo I had lying around.
On the right side of the paper I used a hairdryer to blow out the alcohol inks with large puddles of isopropyl and you can achieve lovely sheets of blending translucent colour. In the bottom left side, I let the alcohol ink dry then added spots of isopropyl which I then blew outward with a straw.
I wondered if I could marry watercolour and the alcohol inks, and cobble something together which could look pretty seamless. On a whim I drew out a seahorse onto the dry alcohol inks in a Copic Multiliner SP, which was the only pen out of twelve different brands I tried which faired decently once isopropyl and water is thrown at it. I then painted her with watercolours, and beefed her out with Indian ink once dry.
