Rubbing Alcohol Makes It All Good

Here is a quickie project for you!

*** Protect your work surface! ***

I used three colors of liquid watercolor 

(mine came from Dick Blick,)

mixed media paper and some rubbing alcohol.

First I got the surface of the paper really wet with a mop brush,

then I used a pipette to drop watercolor into the water.

The color started moving around

and I added more drops here and there,

until I got a look I was happy with.

Next I used a paintbrush to flick drops

of rubbing alcohol onto various bodies of color.

The rubbing alcohol pushes the color away -

much like it does when you use blending solution

on alcohol inks.

Then I let the whole mess dry as it was.

And this is how it turned out! I love it! You can see where the rubbing alcohol pushed the color out of the way, leaving behind those white splotchy spaces.
The hope is to eventually draw on this. My eyes are not progressing at the pace I had hoped for. Still praying it happens, but I am not really able to do any detail drawing at this point. At least playing with color is a lot of fun!