Cute Easterbunny

 

Cute Easter Bunny Keychain
by ullahennig

Looking for a cute Easter present? Isn't he sweet, the little Easter Bunny?

Using acrylic inks like watercolour

One of the advantages of acrylic ink is that you can thin it down considerably. In this way you can achieve a watercoloury look. As acrylic ink cannot be diluted by water when it is dry you can work with several layers, thus creating shadings. In the end I used an acrylic paintmarker in the same colour in order to put on dark spots.

 

Mixing greens with acrylic ink

Actually I did not use yellow and blue to mix those various shades of greens. I used a turquoise green, a lemon yellow and white. I also used acrylic inks which I find more difficult to mix than acrylics out of the tube. Sometimes I feel like I am in the middle of an adventure with no fixed ending. Sometimes the result is similar to the one I have in mind - but more than once the result is interesting but not as I intended it to be. But most of all, it is fun and very relaxing!

 

Abstract Art with Inktense Pencils 2

I didn't do any planning or sketches for this piece. I just decided which colours I wanted to use, picked them and then started with the painting. The funny thing is that I don't do that when using acrylic inks - I normally do a rough pencil sketch there. The reason for that may be that it is so easy to use those inktense pencils - you just grab them and then apply them. Whereas with acrylic ink I paint with self-mixed inks which tend to dry out very quickly. So I want to know where to put a certain colour, use that colour and then add the second colour.

 

Abstract art with inktense pencils

It has been quite some time since I last used inktense pencils. Actually I didn't know how many I had - and which colours I had. I love them because of their intensive colours, and because you can layer them. You can apply them in various ways - apply the pencils directly on the paper and wet them, or taking pigment off the pencils with a brush. 

The blue background was generated with Canva. 
 

Liquid watercolours and layout markers

In this painting I used pastel alcoholbased markers to put some marks on the watercolours. I used light pastel colours. I didn't want to destroy the soft, washed out look by adding strong colours with my markers.

 

Choosing another medium

After having done quite a few paintings with alcoholbased markers I wanted to try something different - painting with my liquid watercolours. Here I used two colours - a deep blue and a warm grey. The first is a colorex paint, the second an Ecoline one (Colorex is made by Pebeo, and Ecoline by Royal Talens; both are also described as "Watercolour inks".)

I tried to experiment with watering down the paint in order to achieve a shading effect.