Zebra Highlighters and Yupo Paper #zebrapen @zebrapen

 This was a fun experiment I have been wanting to try.

Zebra Pen has these wonderful Eco Highlighters called Zebrites that really have some beautiful color. I am using them in my bullet journal because they don't bleed through the pages. I had been wondering how they would work on Yupo paper.

In case you aren't familiar with Yupo - it is a plastic, non-porous paper and the color does not absorb into it, rather it sits on top.

 Awhile back I received some ATC sized Yupo paper samples in my Art Snacks box, so I pulled that pad out. To that I added three of the Eco Zebrite highlighters and a water brush filled with water.

I squiggled down some bits of color here and there in a totally random fashion, then moved them around with the water brush. 

What you see above is the result I got with that technique.

The colors bled into each other in some places, and in other places the color moved completely around the color it came in contact with - causing those circles of blue and green.

 I loved how that worked and was encouraged with the results, so I moved on to some Zebra Mildliners I have.  

 This time I selected five colors and started randomly laying down swatches. Instead of pushing color around with the water brush - I squeezed the barrel causing drops of water to fall onto the yupo paper. A little tilt of the paper here and there caused the color to flow and appear as you see it above.

Wet things on Yupo take awhile to dry - unless you use a heat gun, but that is a whole other experiment - so I left the two ATCs on my desktop to dry overnight.

 This is how they look when dry.

The colors are not as vibrant and they continued to mingle a bit, but I still really love the results!

The first one (highlighter) didn't change that much other than color brightness, but the second one (mildliner) changed a lot!

I think next I will play with a heat gun and maybe some alcohol. Although probably not both at the same time. Hahaha!

These highlighters and mildliners are available at Zebra Pen - just click here. 

Have some fun! I'd love to see how it turns out for you!