Acrylic inks and alcohol markers

There are several ways I have been combining acrylic inks and alcohol markers:

1. I have been using a black marker for painting the background. 
   
   
2. While painting with acrylic inks I left several spots blank and filled up the blank space with a marker when the acrylic ink had dried. In this painting I used markers in several shades of green and a yellow marker.
   
   
3. I found out that markers go very nicely over dried acrylic inks. In the painting you can see several spots of orange - here I went over washed out red acrylic ink with a yellow marker. 

 

Acrylic Inks Watered down

 

This abstract painting was done with acrylic inks mostly. The yellow patches and the black background were painted with alcohol markers. The surface I used was watercolor paper. 

First I did a rough sketch with a pencil and a ruler. Then I added two drops of olympic blue into a small plastic container. I applied the paint on some spots. After that I added more and more drops of water in order to get a watercolor like effect. I did the same with Indigo blue acrylic ink: first I used the ink as it came out of the bottle, then I watered it down. In some spots I applied a second layer of watered down indigo.

I am quite satisfied with the result and will play some more with my acrylic inks.

How I use AI for my Zazzle Shop

 

There are several ways I use AI for my Zazzle shop. Here are three of them:

1. I am an AI artist, so I create images with several AI Art generators. Often I use my own prompts; but in some cases I let AI help me to refine my prompt ideas.
2. I use google.gemini to help me select the products which are most apt for my images. Not every image looks good on every product. So I upload my image to Google Gemini and ask which products it would look good on. Sometimes it will mention products I had not even thought of.
3. A good title, description and good tags are essential for the product to be found in search. So I save my design, take a screenshot of it and upload it again to Google Gemini. I review the result before publishing the product in my Zazzle shop. Sometimes I change something. Then I hit the "Sell" button.

 

Art Deco Tulips
by ullahennig