Hahnemühle and ZenART Supplies - Great Combination!

 

Recently I have become one of ZenART Supplies' Luminaries. I get the opportunity to use their products and tell you all about them. Hahnemühle has been a great friend to me and allow me to use their products and tell you about those, too. And since ZenART does brushes and paint and Hahnemühle does all things paper - they make up one great winning combination! 

Recently I was working with my Gelli Arts printing plates making prints, having fun. My brayer usually has paint left on it that I don't want to waste, so I brought out a sheet of Hahnemühle's The Collection paper and rolled that leftover paint right on. Lately I have been painting on top of gell prints and I knew these light, pretty colors would be perfect. 

The Collection pages are roughly 9.5" x 12.5" which means I can easily make two paintings on each paper. That is one inch painters tape you see blocking off my pages. One thing I try to remember - but don't always - is to make sure the tape is down good and solid on the paper so paint doesn't find a foothold underneath it. 

I used a black ultra fine Sharpie to draw my florals. That lower ring of dark color - I knew I wanted to stamp a sentiment in that round section and I wanted the dark ring to highlight it. Yes, it looks strange at this stage but it gets better, honest. 

I have two sets of paintbrushes from ZenART Supplies. I had not used this set a lot, so thought I'd give them a try on this page. I used two brushes from their Fine Line Detail Set - #1 and #2 round. I like to work with larger brushes usually but really wanted to try these out and they worked great.

I love how the gelli print roll off shows right through the painting. For color I used Prima's Classic watercolor set. 

The background is painted a light green with hints of yellow and teal. I left the petals unpainted so those gel print colors would shine through. And after the paint was completely dry, I went back over all the black lines and doubled them up - that covers any boo-boos! Added some white highlights here and there and stamped my sentiment. All done √ Not as bright and colorful as I usually like things but it is good to swap things up once in awhile. Just to show I can. Hahahaha! And those detail brushes worked great!

I used a load of orange and red on this page and they mostly covered up those acrylic gel print roll offs. When I hold the piece of art and tilt it towards the light I can still see the acrylic underneath. It gives some really great texture to my paintings. I added some black ink around the edges to frame the artwork, some white highlights and I went back over all my lines. 

Hahnemühle's Collection and ZenART Supplies' fine line detail brushes worked great together! And I love this piece of art even though it has red in it. Hahahaha! 

The Collection watercolor paper from Hahnemühle can be purchased here. 

Fine Line Detail Brushes from ZenART Supplies can be purchased here. 

Gelli Arts brayers can be purchased here. 

Prima's Classic Set can be purchased here.