 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of art mixology and in the last episode we made melted metal paste and When we were done it looked like this there we go, and then we also made melted metal texture The premise behind art mixology if this is your first episode that you're watching is to find new and unique in different ways To use the art supplies. We already have in our art journals in our paintings and our work in general, so As part of that I create recipe cards like you would for any other Recipe that you have whether it's a durian recipe or a food recipe in this case an art recipe so art mixology so I Created the recipe cards. I have them in a file for you all and the link for Episodes one recipes and this episode recipes will be in the description below So anyway, we have two more recipes How many times in this episode can I say recipes? so this first one was Actually, both of these were inspired my by my quest to figure out new and unique ways to use some of my rubber stamps So for those of you who don't know I have my own rubber stamp line This is one of them this feather stamp is from that and I have 15 different sets of stamps in my line You can get them in the Etsy shop. Oh wait, let's There we go Let's zoom out. So for those who don't know I have 15 different sets of stamps I designed myself and sell in my Etsy shop. This particular feather is from this stamp here set number 14 We're also going to use this Sort of foliage stamp. This is from stamp set number 13 and then I'm going to show you Why although I love this set with the hands which is set number 15 This hand doesn't necessarily work for this technique, but and I'll show you why But again, there's 15 different sets you can look in My Etsy shop to see them. So this first recipe was inspired by the idea of gravestone rubbings, you know where you people go to Graveyard especially really old ones with big sheets of paper and a stick of graphite And they rub the tombstone to get not only the names and the dates especially if you're doing genealogy But to get some of the carvings and artwork off the stones. It is a thing Google it So I thought why can't we do something like that with rubber stamps? What can't we so I? Took a sheet of deli paper and this is actually I'm sorry This is the deli paper. This is actually a vintage sheet of typing paper. Both of these will work. You want kind of a Thinner paper the deli paper worked a bit better They also as you can see here by the rubbings on here try to bunch of different materials. This green is actually a Tombow Brush marker epic failure. Don't try it with that the best Things to do this with in my opinion were graphite and I have a graphite crayon if you have a graphite block It would probably work really well a regular pencil I Used a Stabilo woody and that actually worked pretty good. That's a kind of a softer color pencil and then The Sakura solid marker All of these are available You know on Amazon You probably have at least number two pencils in your supply stash So use what you have anything too soft doesn't work super well. So this here I'm gonna zoom back in a little bit There we go. So this here worked. Okay, but this was an oil pastel and it wasn't great This here is the Sakura solid marker This is the Stabilo woody fat color pencil This is just a plain pencil This one was another oil pastel This is the Sakura solid marker and black which worked really well And then I decided to do it over the marker, which was a complete failure and that actually I like the way that looks When you're doing these rubbings with a stamp that has a lot of detail like the hand from my handset has a lot of detail in it You get an you get a decent you get an okay image, but it's not great So you probably want to stay away from stamps that are too detailed I think one of the reasons the feather and the foliage worked because they weren't too detailed So we're gonna do one again, and I'm just gonna show you really quick what I did I'm going to use just a pencil now. This is a darker than normal pencil. This is a general's Layout pencil, which is a sought kind of a softer, but really dark pencil and You want to just hold the paper down over the stamp now these are cling-mounted stamps, so I've put them on an acrylic block If you have a wood mount stamp, just turn it upside down hold the paper over the stamp and then hold your Pencil sideways and just very lightly don't push too hard just rub it over and Again, go around your art room and see what you have that you can try this with okay So I'm gonna just switch stamps just just because and I'm going to show you with these Sakura solid markers Which I really like these markers I can get it open. It's like a giant crayon, but it's paint and I'm actually barely barely barely touching it to The paper and it's probably almost on the verge of too soft But I like the way that looks. I think that looks really nice I'm going to try to squeeze one more out of one of these pieces of paper Let's let's do the deli paper because you do get a I think the deli paper that Vintage type of paper is nice. I think you get a better impression from the deli paper But any thin paper that you have let's do the feather because it's a bit smaller actually no Let's do the foliage and let's do it here over where the marker was a failure um This is a graphite crayon and it would work similarly to a block of graphite and it works really well It's probably my favorite tool to do this with is the Lyra graphite crayon and this is the graphite 9b crayon Okay, and then I want to show you one more. Let's do the woody pencil Somewhere, let's do the feather Is it smaller? I can squeeze it in somewhere How about here this? Stabila woody pencil it comes in a lot of colors and it works really well So those are my two favorites are these two the others work these work really well so use what you have and practice with the stamps that you have and The pencils and crayons that you have and see what you can come up with so now that we've done that I need to take samples from here Like with the other recipe cards in episode one which I'll link in the description below I Take one or two samples and I attach them to the back of the recipe card So I'm not looking at the recipe going what later on because yeah, believe me. I'll do that So I'm going to staple one on one side and then I like to do two because I've done this so many different ways So I'm going to do two and I'm going to take one of these Once it's not only on the typing paper, but that's done with the Sakura crayon Now I will say that if you have done these rubbings and you're going later to use it in your artwork on a tag or a journal page The Sakura crayons not going to go anywhere if you use wet glue But the graphite probably will the woody pencil definitely will those are water soluble So you want to be careful and I've used these on journal pages. I used a glue stick So I would definitely advise using a dry glue a glue stick And or if you're super concerned about it making sure that you use a medium to do the rubbing That is not going to move around after it dries Okay, so now we have our new recipe card and I can show you really quick One journal page that I just finished that has a rubbing incorporated. Oops. There we go So this is one of the rubbings and I love that So it's just a fun new element that you made to using your journal rather than something store-bought Using what we have. Okay, so we're going to put this in our Rolodex and The next one is a lot of fun, but can be super messy FYI and I don't know how it would work with the hand, but I'm thinking that you would have the same Problem because it would be too detailed So I'm going to show you what I mean for this next one. You're going to need You're going to need some thicker paper like watercolor paper I tried it on thinner paper. It didn't work. I'll show you what I mean You're going to need a scrub stamp a stamp cleaning pad This is from stamping up and it's a double-sided thing You know you clean up the most of the gook off on one side and then you know one side to the dirty side One side it's a clean side Basically you wipe most of the gook off on one side then you dry it off on the other side And the liquid I used to clean it is a stays-on all-purpose cleaner, which I really like You'll need both of these and then you're going to need some masking fluid, which is a watercolor Medium lack of a better term They usually watercolorists put on the paper to preserve the whiteness of the paper Before they start doing their painting and then when they're done They just rub it off and it reveals the paper. So I thought why can't you stamp with? masking fluid or can you even and yes, the answer is you can and You get some interesting images. I'm going to show you the better ones. They're not perfect and pristine to be honest. I Probably did it wrong. I was doing it in a hurry I got too much masking fluid on this one, but that being said, I like the way it turned out This is the first one I did Now this is thinner paper and look what happened and this was with spray ink. These two were with spray ink and you got I mean, it's interesting, but it wasn't what I was going for. So I would say that the spray inks Don't really work. There wasn't really enough masking fluid on it to prevent the ink from going underneath Which was the problem. I think so any Thing that's too wet is not going to give you the same quality of image as these were done with acrylic paint And part of the reason is because we're stamping with masking fluid and my stamps have a lots of thin detail lines and It's really hard to get lots of masking fluid on those lines to preserve the white paper So you're going to have to just practice and play with what you have But that being said, let me Stamp a couple off now I would recommend putting it to this on a dish and then when you're done Just let it dry and it should just rub right off and ball up like rubber cement. You don't need very much This masking fluid is yellow. This is a Windsor and Newton and Then it looks like that and then you just literally just let it dry. Don't do anything with it until It's dry What you do have to do is clean this off right away Like when you're stamping with modeling paste or something else, you don't want to have that dry on your stamp It's going to ruin your stamp. So first take a baby wipe to it Then put some of your stamp cleaner on it then open up your pad Scrub it on one side scrub it on the other side and Just make sure that you've gotten all the masking fluid off And if you haven't then do it again So just because I want to see what's going to happen. I'm pretty sure it's not going to turn out well We're gonna do the hand. I'm pretty sure it's not going to turn out well because I think it's got too many lines on it It's too detailed, but we're gonna Try I should have put this on a flat plate instead of this little dish, but that's okay Do it if we're push and then lift. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not gonna Turn out super well because it's really I mean, I don't know I don't I could be wrong, but I don't I don't think I am I don't I don't think I'm wrong We'll let that dry and we'll see what happens once it dries completely go over it with some acrylic paint and Then let that dry and Then you can get these sort of rubber cement erasers that of course will get rubber cement off of things But they also work great on masking fluid You can also just use your fingertip So I'm gonna clean this we're gonna let this dry and I'll be right back Okay, once it's dry pick a color of paint Any color I'm gonna use this color. What is this medium magenta for the better? I'm gonna put a little bit of blue in there just because I want to and this is Manganese blue you can use craft paint. These are just small my small tubes that I use for art journaling and Cover the whole thing in paint I don't know if you can see but the masking fluid does resist the acrylic paint So we are going to take this leftover paint. We're not gonna waste it. That's on the brush Right This is one of my many art journals I'm just gonna wipe the brush off and start a new page that way And stick it in some cleaner and then I'm gonna dry this and I'll be right back. Okay now the magic happens Like I said though, I don't know how well that hand stamp is gonna turn out because I think it's got too much detail on it and the masking fluid is pretty watery and I don't I just don't think we're gonna get a great impression, but Let's do the feather first Now I did dry this with a heat tool, which the masking fluid doesn't always appreciate So so the masking fluid keeps whatever kind of paper you've stuck it on White this is where we kind of stamped off the leftover masking fluid on the hand stamp And I know what it is, but I don't think anybody else would ever be able to tell what that is All right, here's the other one that we did I'm gonna use the So you can use your finger you can use the eraser as you can see I switch back and forth it takes a little practice to do this one because there's a Really a fine line between using too much and not enough of the masking fluid That being said if you have some masking fluid laying around your art room and You're not really using it too much anyway Play with it with your rubber stamps So just go over it and make sure that you've really gotten all the masking fluid off because the masking fluid stays kind of sticky So you really you really do want to get it all the way off And then you'll be left with Something like that So when you get it right you'll get an image like this. I mean I like these though These would be an interesting addition and this the hands not bad I would maybe still use that not that anybody would really be able to tell what that is Because it's again, I think it's just the stamp has a lot of detail and I think that the masking fluids too watery But I think it's interesting. I think you should try it the recipes for both these and the rubbings and the other two Um Textures or mixology experiments we did from episode one are all downloadable in a document And I will link episode one which includes the recipe for the first two cards In the description below Along with the document for these recipes So have some fun with it Give it a play and if you're in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression and you come up with your own Mixology recipes not only am I great with you sharing these on YouTube, but please share them over in the Facebook group We would love to see what you're up to that's it for right now Don't forget to like share and subscribe if you're new here and above all go out and have a great day and do Something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys