Ecoline Brush Pens on Bristol

Hahnemühle's Bristol paper is the perfect base for some neurotangled Ecoline awesome color! Working in my journal made using the Bristol paper for today's post. Let me show you how I achieved these bright, beautiful colors. 

Supplies are minimal. I used a few colors of the Ecoline Brush Pens on this page of Bristol. Add to that a non-porous surface (I used an acrylic block) and some water. You could do the same thing with a plastic ziplock baggie. I began by scribbling some color onto my block. Just scribbles, nothing fancy. 

I sprayed water onto the color, then flipped the block over and stamped the color onto my page. You can do a straight stamp and lift OR you can smoosh it all around, then lift. Those straight lines you see already on the page were straight stamp and lift. I didn't like how they looked, so I changed to smoosh and lift. Highly technical terminology here, folks. 

And just do that with as many colors as you want. I used four. Remember, where your colors mix they will create additional colors. It's like a bonus!

For proof here are the four colors I used. Any water based marker will work for this technique. I prefer the Ecolines because their colors are so bright and beautiful. You will notice puddles of color. I just leave those and let them dry naturally. If you are in a hurry, hit this with a heat gun to dry. 

And here is my page after it dried. I love these colors! See that swath of purple? Blue and pink once they ran together. New colors. Awesome fun! But I wasn't finished yet. 

Neurotangling. This page screamed for it. Hahahaha! Is neurotangling a new term in your skill set? You can check it out at this post and this post. It begins with a lot of lines. 

Lines that come to life when you round all the corners. Then I homed in on those circles and added auras inside all the sections of each circle. I liked the way it was already starting to change.

Inside each of those auraed sections I filled in the lower right corner. And I did this for every circle on my page. This technique is an enhancement called rounding. 

You can add tangling to the individual sections of your strings. I looked at my page and saw what I thought was the shape of a duck, swimming on a pond. Hahahaha! You may or may not see it. To those sections I added the tangle ripped screen. And I usually always have some printemps, so there is even a section of that off to the side. Neurotangled art. So much fun and anyone can do it. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how it goes. 

Bristol paper from Hahnemühle can be purchased here. 

Ecoline Brush Pens can be found here.