Alcohol Ink Spring Conference is coming soon - Early Bird Special!

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 Excited to share that our second Alcohol Ink Spring Conference is coming soon! Society Members can sign up for the early bird special of only $20 now through April 16th!! 

Find out all the details  here!!

Creating your own unique Alcohol Ink Jewelry for Holiday gifts or Craft fairs!

Ok I'm super excited!!

Just got my new order in from Amazon within 1 day and these are a really great price and they have gold colored bezels! $14.99 for 35 of them ( .42 each) -
 pretty good.

They include the Glass Cabochons but not the chains.

Great to start my online course with $12 Sale Link for you!

Student Using my Peacock Feather Tips - Painting by Amanda Hammill

 by Amanda Hammill

"Think I'm gonna call this guy 'Done'. He's morphed so many times, I think my luck has run out...next thing I know the only way to recover from my continuous edits will be to make him a rooster!

 Inspired by @kelliechasse_fineart - thanks Kellie for your tips!" 

I am so blow away by this fabulous work from my Online Student. 

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely finished piece Amanda.

I love it when I get messages like this!

Very thankful for all of my students and I really appreciate sharing their work and honored that these classes, videos, and tips are helping you all create your own lovely art pieces. 

Please help me spread the word and share - When you create something using my techniques or take a Class, it would mean the world to me if you would please credit my work and techniques by tagging it with #kcfacourse or @kelliechasse_fineart  

You can read more about creating Peacock Feathers in this past Blog Post: Peacock Tips  plus there is a short Demo Video!

KEEP ON PAINTING, CREATING and SHARING!  

XOXO

Kellie

New Summer Birch Tree Course Coming soon!

Alcohol Ink Demo Video

Hey fellow Inkers! I wanted to share with you my FREE Step by Step Quick Demo Video of my wet in wet Alcohol Ink technique for this painting scene. Feel free to share and paint

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Eiffel Tower - Commission Alcohol Ink Painting on Tile

A friend of mine from High School sent me a message on facebook the other day - she had seen one of my tiles and wanted to know if I could paint something special for her daughter's room. I was excited to start!

Her decor had shades of pinks, purples, and black so she wanted to have something painted with those colors in mind along with the Eiffel Tower. She loved the background I had done on one of my dragonfly tiles so I tried to duplicate it as close as I could!

The first go around was just with the tower, but it looked a bit lonely so after a bit of back and forth emails and a bit of research online we decided to add the moon, stars and a few trees in front!

We had a winner - she loved it....so I was off to the next step of varnishing and sealing the tile when disaster struck! I'm still not sure how this happens sometimes....but the sealing process on occassion will do funny things and it ruined the top right hand color in the tile. I was so upset!!

I tried to re-work it, but with inks that isn't something you can really do with the background once it's dried. The inks will re-activate and it changes the whole look!
 

 So I started over...... here is the finished result (all sealed and ready to go).

Getting Fine Details with Alcohol Ink

You Can Detail AI Paintings 

 I've tried an Owl before with inks when I first started and it just didn't cut it. I've learned how to manipulate the inks better since first starting out with them in October of 2013.

With the help of a number of wonderful Ink artist's sharing wonderful tips and best practice's.....it's been a smoother transition than I thought!

How To Detail with Inks
With most of my work I use a fine watercolor brush to get these tiny lines. Pour a few drops of ink into a pallet or small dish and wait for a few minutes until the ink settles or thickens a bit. It's much easier to control the "explosion" of blur if the alcohol has evaporated slightly!

 

White is always the hardest to use with a brush. I found that I love using the Uni-ball' Signo gel pen in white.

 Heads up....The white doesn't always stay bright white, you can see where It's yellowed a bit, especially where you are going over an existing color numerous times.

Amazon: White Gel Pen

Happy Painting
~Kellie

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Power Up Your Art Marketing - Free Tips

My husband is a Senior Marketing Manager for a Vet Pharmaceutical company and he is always helping me out! Thanks to him I have learned many new ways to use the internet to help my online sales! He recently published a book for Internet marketing called Power Up Your Email Marketing.

In Today's post I thought I would share a little bit of PROMO info! For those of you that are looking to sell your work online via facebook!

 #1 rule...always try to use your links to direct your clients to your art page.

I use this great little FREE program called Ipiccy

You can download your photos of your Alcohol Ink art or AIArt and then add some cool text to get a FREE professional yet easy advertisement for you to use on facebook or blog.

This one was used to make a coupon code for my Kellie Lynn Art Facebook page. I posted the picture on my facebook page and then added the etsy store link. It's a great way to draw traffic to your store as well as have folks share you items!

Gaining email addresses is an important way to stay connected with your clients/collectors. It's a way to share your newest work as well as direct them to sales, or specials you may be running.

I use an email program called Mail Chimp. You can sign up for FREE and it can be attached to your facebook page. Here is another example I made via Ipiccy -  sign up for my newsletter by giving away a FREE print.

So don't be afraid to get yourself out there!

Happy Inking~
 Kellie Chasse!
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Day 25 of 30 in 30 Challenge "Easy to Spot" Cardinal

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Guess what....using some of my new ink colors today, very exciting! This Cardinal was painted with Raisin, purple twilight, and Meadow Green. Funny, when I first started with the inks I really had a hard time manipulating them but after some practice and "sticking with it", it's become very rewarding.

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