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The Happiest Accident: Recovering art from a (gasp) liquid spill!

November 10, 2020 by Sandy Allnock 12 Comments [featured_image}

Some of the projects that get the most attention ’round here are the flubs – when stuff goes wrong! Well, this one nearly had me starting over, but…as I always tell YOU – it’s just paper. If it screws up, keep going til you learn something. And in this case, I think I found a very cool technique!

The intent was just to color pretty poinsettias. And fortunately I taped all that part before The Incident. So if you just want to learn to color them normally you can.

Supplies for this project are linked at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links may be used at no cost to you.

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In the middle of the video I started creating what I had hoped to be a faux watercolor background….several colors blended, dripped, and sprayed with a mister full of colorless blender, so it would look like watercolor but be in Copic instead. Then….The Incident happened! See it all in the video:

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As you saw, the colorless blender “pushed” the color to the back side. The flowers retained their shape and shading – just a little fuzzy around the edges. But the color! So much more vibrant than regular coloring! You can see the difference:

To “tidy” things up, I did some loose sketchy lines around the outside edges of the flowers. Sooooooo pretty!

Want more ideas like this?

There’s a class that has a technique similar enough to this that I shouldn’t have been surprised – I didn’t know it would work as it did, though. But if you love these kinds of crazy things to do with your Copics, check out the Copic Art Journaling class, and your fancy will be tickled!

Copic Art Journaling Class

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Comments

  1. Henriëtte says

    November 13, 2020 at 1:18 pm

    What a awesome accident, I love beautiful card.
    Thank you so much for sharing, stay safe and have a wonderful day.

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  2. Denise Potter says

    November 11, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    Honestly, I would have said some unladylike words under my breath (or louder) and then given up — maybe starting over. It is incredible and encouraging to watch you take it to new heights by looking at the back! Note to self: walk away and look at it later for a possible “save”. Thanks for sharing even the more challenging parts of being an artist.

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  3. Andre M. says

    November 11, 2020 at 8:43 am

    Amazing how the ink went through the paper and turned up so much more vivid on the back! Thanks for sharing this technique.

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  4. Karen Lynn Jackson says

    November 11, 2020 at 5:53 am

    wow awesome fix!Thank you i learned something new!

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  5. Jenni King says

    November 10, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    So cool! Who would have thought?? I never would have done that! Thanks for all you do!

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  6. Gab says

    November 10, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    What an amazing happy accident!!

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  7. Sheri Kempke says

    November 10, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    This is so cool–you are fearless! I don’t know if I could pour the blender over all of my work, but she looks terrific! Thanks Sandy!

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  8. creatingincolors says

    November 10, 2020 at 9:49 am

    Surely Bob Ross is proud of you and your happy little accident 😉

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  9. Beverly Polen says

    November 10, 2020 at 9:23 am

    Sandy, what an awesome card you created as a result of a mistake! You are so very creative and I love your work and videos. Great job, Sandy!

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  10. Charlie says

    November 10, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Trust you to make an accident into something so FAB. Amazing card.

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  11. GiniK says

    November 10, 2020 at 3:57 am

    What fun! Well, not that first ACK part… But you are so right that things sometimes turn out better… I accidentally spilled some iced tea once, while I was watercoloring – and it was almost too easy to save that project – but this one is really out there! Keep doing what you do – and thank you for sharing this!

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  12. Gabriella Bell says

    November 10, 2020 at 3:29 am

    Lovely card, the colors are so vibrant. You were “lucky” with your spill, mine would have been coffee

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