Playing With Resist and Watercolors

Zentangle All Around recently had a prompt to think outside the box. Try something you've not done before. A product, a technique, anything that breaks the block we artists all feel at one time or another. Christine called the prompt: Break the Block!

 Months ago I bought a Prima product called

Watercolor Resist Pen.

A bottle of liquid that allows you to mask off an area

so you can have contrast when you watercolor.

It has a needle tip on it and you just squeeze.

I used a piece of mixed media paper and

made scrolls and loops using the resist pen.

Then I put it somewhere safe from Aurora

to dry overnight. 

 The next day, I used a small watercolor set

also from Prima and watercolored my paper.

I slopped on a lot of water to start with -

then added the color. 

It was cool to watch how the color moved to the 

borders of the resist and sat there.

I was curious about the amount of water I added.

I really thought it would seep under the edges

of the resist lines.

 Here is what it looked like dry.

I did not use a heat gun to dry this.

I wasn't sure how the resist would react 

with the heat, so I just stuck it back in 

the safe spot and waited.

I really love how the colors mixed with each other. Notice - when the color bumped up to the resist lines, as it dried the resist pushed  the color back in on itself. And made those cool little wiggly edges all around. I love it!

 Yesterday, I started peeling off the resist.

It pulled up in a little rubbery strip,

kind of like rubber cement did when

we were kids. 

Notice that the color did not seep under

the resist like I thought it might.

It left a good crisp, clear line.

And the white line left behind looks exactly like the resist line did.  All the little blobs and blunders I made - not thinking ahead of time where I wanted to go - all still show up. But that's ok. I like it! Next, I will take this sheet and start tangling it up!
Resist and frisket are the same things. And I truly believe rubber cement would do the same thing. Just remember with it - the fumes are killer for headaches. We don't even have any in our house just for that very reason.
Just have fun and play some today.