Heres some more backgrounds I made using the gold leaf resist technique.
These are very easy to do, you need a gold or metallic leafing pen such as Krylon.
Onto your card stock make patterns with your gold leaf pen, you can doodle or just add squiggles – its up to you. You can even use droplets from the pen by removing the nib and dropping the ink direct from the pen onto the card.
Once the gold leafing has dried, take a paint brush dipped into a watercolour type paint and just wash over the entire card in different colours. The gold leaf acts as a kinda resist which makes cool background effects.
Heres the Gold Leafing Backgrounds before I added a watercolour wash to them:
Heres the backgrounds after I did the watercolour washes:
These are luscious Trish – can’t wait to try it out…
Fabulous technique. I’ll certainly give this a try once I get back home. Love all the inspiration you provide!!!!
Cool technique! I’ll have to try it! Thanks for sharing!
Take care and STAY POSITIVE!
These are cool! I never noticed that the pens could be used that way. You are always coming up with different ways to do art! I will give it a try.