Video: Creating Art Journal Backgrounds with Acrylic Ink

Video: How to Pre-prepare backgrounds in your sketchbook

If you can't view the video here, use this YouTube  link 

Hope you enjoy the video, it was fun to make. If you'd like more videos then tell me in the comments. 

Below are a few recent pages using pre-prepared backgrounds so you can see how that looks, and what the possibilities are.  The F&W acrylic inks from the video were used along with some other types of acrylic paints , all of which were kept very thin. 

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 Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and gouache over a pre-prepared background.

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 Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, Canada Goose studies from life.

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 Pentel pocket Brush Pen, gouache, white Deco marker

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Pentel Pocket brush pen, gouache, white Deco marker