Art Technique Using Rubbing Alcohol

This is such a fun background technique using paint and rubbing alcohol. But, I gotta be honest, it took me some tries to get it to work in some cases. But all art is practice, right?

• Rubbing alcohol
• High flow acrylic paints or watered down acrylics
• Card stock, art journal, etc.

You can water down regular acrylic paints, but it's difficult to find the perfect consistency. And the results weren't quite as awesome. I got good results using acrylic paints that say they’re high flow or for paint pouring.

Use one color and let it dry when you’re done.

Give your paper a coat of a different color of high flow acrylic but don't set it aside to dry.

Splatter or tap the alcohol onto the wet paint and then let dry.

You should have seen some magic happen with this step.

I did not expect my next color to be quite so dark, but the technique still worked as I dripped more alcohol drops onto this dark color. Let dry.

I used a magenta as my final color and went thru the same steps.

I think it looks like a tortoise shell, doesn't it?

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