hi everyone its Keren here with a new video featuring 20 resist techniques
with watercolors enjoy
the first thing I did is take some masking tape and divide my watercolor
paper into a few different squares in this paper twelve different squares so I
could test the different techniques on each of the squares I went around their
whole watercolor paper just so I could use a masking tape to hold it to the mat
and then use the same masking tape to divide out the squares this is an 8 by
10 cold press watercolor paper from Prima marketing and all the lists of all
the products and links are listed in the description area below the first
technique uses crayons these are regular children's crayons that you buy in any
store and I specifically took the white crayon so I can made some marks on the
first square then I took some prima watercolor confections these are the
tropical colors and I just added some water to add them to wet the watercolors
so then I could paint over that same square
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as you can see the crayon resisted the watercolor perfectly then I took a
candle and I did the same thing I created sun marks on my second square
just so I could put the watercolor on top then I went in with my watercolor
and again it created a really beautiful resist on that background
you for my third technique I use some
Vaseline I've used this before to resist gesso and other mediums but I just
wanted to test it with the watercolors so I used a q-tip and I just applied it
and created some marks on this third square to see if it would resist the
watercolor of course since the Vaseline is petroleum-based
and it's an oily substance it resisted the watercolors my fourth technique is
an actual reverse resist technique what I do first is I add a water color onto
the square onto the background and then I add something on top to resist it and
to take it away in this case I'm using salt I just press the salt on added some
salt onto the background and let it sit until it dried then the next technique
did the same thing it's a reverse resist technique i wet at the square and then I
use saran wrap to make wrinkles on top of it and that tended to absorb and
create things in the background which you'll see later once it's dry
my sixth technique is also a reverse resist technique and I just added again
the water color on to the background and then I took some rubbing alcohol and
sprinkle it onto the water color and it created these amazing marks as the
watercolor resists the alcohol
for my next technique I use a glue gun and I just created a small little heart
inside the square and let it dry I guess you could use a silicon based glue as
well for this technique for this next technique I went to emboss I wanted to
emboss the background however I didn't realize that my ink my distress ink was
so dirty and from another stamping time and when I added the embossing powder
which you will see later it didn't work out as I wanted so I did repeat the step
this again I did switch in the pad and I took my perfect medium and I just went
and stamped it onto the background I did not use embossing powder for this one I
just let it be because I wanted to show a different technique for this square
then I took some Ranger watermark resist ink and I stamped my next square then I
went in with the paintbrushes and the reason why I left the powder on the
other one is because the paper was stuck on to the background and I couldn't take
it off until the end until I was done all the techniques as you can see for
the watermark technique it worked really nicely and it created a reverse resist
technique as well same with the perfect medium but I wasn't satisfied with that
one with the perfect medium so I did do it again later on and a few other steps
then I took some watercolor and I painted around the glue gun area that I
had all read the heart that I've already done and it came resisted perfectly
for my next technique I took some wax pellets and i melted them with my heat
gun I just melted them over the paper and then let them air dry before I added
the watercolor of course since is a wax based product you did a similar resist
technique as it was with the candle
the last resist technique for this paper was using some gel this time I use some
3d gel because it's thicker but you could really use any type of gel and I
just run it through a stencil and let it dry once it was dry and once the wax was
dry on the top one I went and I added some water colors as you can see as I
predicted it resisted the wax then I went into my dried 3d gel and again it
did the same thing the gel resisted with the water color and it turned out really
nicely to really remove some of them extra water I just dabbed it with a wipe
then I took off the saran wrap and as you can see it created some resist marks
on to the background then I took the powder that was left over at the end and
just heat said to the embossing powder so I could add the watercolor
the salt pellets were still not dry so I let them continue drying while I was
heat setting the embossing powder then I went and added some color onto the
background but it really didn't show the embossed area as well as I wanted it to
begin to show that resist so I did try this in the next paper again and I took
another paper afterwards I was determined to show how well then bossing
resist technique works so I took another paper and added some masking tape and
divided some more squares and then I took my perfect medium embossing medium
and using some clear embossing powder just use it on the background then I
heat set it to melt the embossing ink
I was also not satisfied with the way the resistant eek came out with the
perfect meeting alone without the embossing powder so I took another stamp
and I just stamped it on another square to show this in Reverse resist technique
and how well it works I really had to try the new finna bear waxes as well so
I just added another I added them to another square and just created some
marks on another square to see if it they would resist which I predicted they
would then I took some white heavy gesso from Prima and some clear gesso and
added it through stencils the white gesso added through a stencil using my
silicon brush and just to see how well they would resist the watercolor then I
took the clear gesso and I just because it's softer and I was worried that it
would run through the stencil I just took it some I took some width with a
paintbrush and just added some circular marks onto another square
another cool resist technique is using the resist pen from Prima it creates
this nice gooey kind of resist medium onto the background and then you can
peel it off once it's dry there's also something called masking pen and that's
another version of the same thing
although this is a similar technique as the perfect medium
I used a perfect medium pen from Ranger to just make some marks on to the other
square and then I heat set it for the last square on this page I took a stamp
and then use some resisting from prima to just stamp in the background I used a
white color but this one this ink comes in many different colors and it's kind
of like a chalk ink so it resists the all the water colors so here I started
adding the watercolors first I went with the one that was embossed and look how
well it actually came out then I went over the one with just a perfect medium
on it and using a little bit of a wipe I dabbed it off and it did a kind of
reversed ink technique which is what I was trying to show the same thing
happened when I did it with the ink from the pen that I had made some marks then
I went into their resist pen and Here I am adding the water color and then what
you do is you slowly remove the the rubbery kind of ink when it's dry the
same thing happened this Reverse technique happened with the Prima resist
things and so in this case it was it absorbed the color that was in the
watercolor but I guess if it was a different color like a turquoise or a
blue it would stay in that color of course the wax ones did a perfect resist
to the water colors same with the gesso it really resisted it nicely both the
white one and the clear one one of the main resist techniques that I
wanted to show was using the masking tape and that's a great resist technique
that you can use and it's so simple so this one is shown throughout the whole
page how I remove the masking tape and it created that resist because it does
not let the water in and the great technique to actually remove the masking
tape without ripping the page is heating and melting the actual masking tape
heating the air hitting the glue so the glue kind of melts and it lets you
remove it much easier I didn't he said you can see I'm heating it up again here
because it actually wasn't heating it hot enough and it didn't melt the glue
and it was ripping my page but it did work and when I added the heat tool
properly finally with my resist pen was dry that gooey ink I removed it slowly
although I realized that I was going too hard in some areas and it did rip but
when I did it slowly and carefully it worked really well I realized that maybe
I should have used a less porous kind of pay watercolor paper maybe as smooth one
would have been better but I did go with a cold press one which is not as smooth
then I took the other paper and I again I started removing the masking tape in
this case when I'm sorry first I removed the salt from the last square
because it was finally dries and you can see created a really nice resist
technique and then it was a reverse resistance re and then I went and
removed the masking tape and the reason why it came out so easily is because I
had already heat set it before so as you can see again it resisted that the tape
resisted the watercolor so nicely and it really created this beautiful grid
around my squares when I counted the techniques between the resist techniques
and the reverse resist techniques I realized I only had nine
eighteen of them and not twenty even though I had doubled up on some of the
other ones which I didn't count twice so I decided to do just one more technique
and I took an extra piece of paper this time it was a very simple technique that
we don't often think about first I watered down the whole paper with one of
the watercolors and then I took a heat set it with my heat gun it's important
to heat set it before the next step which is taking a spray bottle and just
adding a few splatters then I took a paper towel and just dabbed away that
wet areas and it creates a reverse resist technique in the background thank
you so much for watching if you have more ideas on how to create resist
techniques please leave me a comment so I can include it in a future video
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