Kaszazz Alcohol Ink Art Markers Exclusive to Kaszazz, these markers contain alcohol based ink which is permanent on most surfaces. Selecting colours for your next project is easy - each marker matches to a Kaszazz SB Essentials card colour. They feature a high quality flexible brush nib and a chisel tip - the variety of techniques and possible uses make these markers a must-have in every paper artist s tool kit! General information: Kaszazz Alcohol Ink Art Markers: Are based on the 72 Kaszazz SB Essentials card stock colours. Are sold as singles, packs of six or as a complete set of 72 colours in a storage box. Have two tips; a chisel and a brush. The printed icon on the body of the barrel indicates each end. Are great for blending. Are great for colour changing embellishments. Are acid free when dry. Are waterproof, so coloured in areas will not run when water colouring techniques are used around, or over them. Can be stored any way, upright, lying down etc. Are airbrush compatible. Do not have refill ink due to transportation restrictions. Are more economical than having costly replacement tips and messy reinkers. Art Marker ink can be cleaned off stamps and Art Marker barrels with 2946 StazOn - Stamp Cleaner. If travelling on a plane ensure to depressurise the Art Markers once landed by removing both caps and allowing them to sit flat for 10 minutes. Card stock Kaszazz card stock is perfect for Art Marker use. Always test card stock before using. Card stock to use: A5, A4 250gsm card packs 9362 A5 Gloss card pack 5325 White tags 5324 Ivory tags 6238 Plastic sheets 1913 Vellum Card stock to avoid: 5342 Watercolour Paper (difficult to blend as the watercolour papers sucks the Art Marker dry.) Inks Inkpads/Pens to use: Always test inks before use. 25900 Memento - Inkpad - Tuxedo Black Distress Inkpads Clear Embossing Powder Inkpads/Pens to avoid due to chemical reactions: StazOn - Inkpad - Jet Black You can stamp StazOn on the reverse side of Plastic Sheets and colour in without any adverse reaction. Coloured Embossing Powders 5502 Fineliner - Black (6) Most Biros The Art Marker product code and description Each Art Marker has the same colour name as a matching Kaszazz SB Essentials card stock. For instance Art Marker A3265 Aqua matches 1088 SB Essentials Aqua. The A on the Art Marker order code stands for alcohol. The numbers that follow are based on the Pantone Matching System (PMS) which is a wellestablished ink colour matching standard that helps create consistency amongst various other products. In Kaszazz s case, the Art Marker and the matching SB Essentials card stock. The numbers are not a guide to any blending colouring system - to choose colours suitable for blending, simply experiment!
Tips and techniques: Always test papers and inkpads before using Art Markers. To test an inkpad or a pen, stamp an image or draw a line and allow it to dry completely. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to scribble over the image, if it bleeds or feathers then it is not compatible. Clean stained tips by colouring them out or use the Clear Blender Art Marker. To test paper, draw a circle or stamp an image, then push the Art Marker colour into the line by over soaking the paper. If the paper allows the saturated ink to feather outside the lines, then the paper is not compatible. If the paper pills (small balls on the surface), then it is not compatible. Colouring tips Always work with scrap paper underneath. Art Markers will bleed through the card stock. After stamping, allow time for the stamped image to dry. Heat set the image to speed things up if needed. Clear Embossed images work well. Coloured Embossed images often produce a bad chemical reaction. The two most common ways to colour are circling and flicking. Each technique will give a different look. Circling: Colour in circles slowly to saturate the paper. For large areas, use the Clear Blender Art Marker first to wet the area being coloured. Flicking: Use quick single strokes to flick the Art Marker tip across the paper creating a single stroke that goes from dark to light. Basic Blending: Use a light colour Art Marker then add a darker Art Marker colour over it. Where the two colours meet, go over the area again with the lighter colour, this works beautifully as a technique. Tip: Good saturation, (wetness) helps with blending, however if blending near a sharp edge or line, over saturation will cause the colour to bleed over the line. Use the chisel tip for covering large areas. To check on evenness of the colour saturation, turn the card stock over. You can blend with just one art marker. Colour in the area using circles, allow to dry. Go over the area that you want to be darker, repeat as necessary. Feathering: Flick the Art Marker from the outside edge to past the centre line, in one stroke. A second colour Art Marker is flicked from the opposite direction, using the same action. Make sure that the colours overlap. Continue doing this, until you are happy with the blended effect. This is a more challenging technique. Practise makes perfect. Tip to Tip: Touch one Art Marker tip to another, then colour. You cannot contaminate the Art Marker tip by doing this. This is great for blending a small area. Touch a dark colour Art Marker to a light colour Art Marker. The darker ink transfers onto the light colour Art Marker. Then use the lighter colour Art Marker to colour the image using the circling or flicking action. Palette Blending: This technique uses a lighter Art Marker to pick up a darker Art Marker ink from a palette. Scribble the dark Art Marker colour onto a plastic sheet, then use a light Art Marker to pick up the colour, then colour in the image. You will get a different look again if you use the Clear Blender Art Marker in place of the lighter Art Marker.
Clear Blender Art Marker effects The Clear Blender Art Marker has so many uses. It is a good idea to have a couple of these on hand. You can use the Clear Blender Art Marker: to help saturate paper for better blending especially in large open areas of an image. Do this by using the Clear Blender Art Marker to wet the area that will be blended, then blend your colours. This helps slow down the drying process that could lead to streaky colouring (remember if colouring close to an edge do not over saturate, or the colour will bleed). t o push colour away. It does not bleach colour out, it just pushes it away. Try colouring a small circle, then hold the Clear Blender Art Marker in the centre of that circle. You can create great bubbles. Use this technique to create both texture and backgrounds. The straight line of the chisel tip will give you a brick wall effect. For best results, do this when the coloured area is dry. to add highlights. If a coloured area is too dark, use the Clear Blender Art Marker to add highlights. Start in the middle of where you want the lightest part of your highlight to be. If you want to lighten up a tiny area, you can use the feathering technique. Practise first though. You can also add texture and age to images by using the Clear Blender Art Marker. to fix up colouring outside the lines. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to push the colour back over the stamped line. Do this by circle saturating the area with the Clear Blender Art Marker, in the area just outside the colour. It will move the colour back across the line. Please note, some colours might leave a residue. to fade out or wash out colour. By continuing to work the Clear Blender Art Marker onto a coloured area, the coloured area will fade from the colour to a lighter version. You can take the colour back to white or almost white. Great for antiquing something. Remember by over saturating with the Clear Blender Art Marker to the coloured area, your colours may bleed. For balloons, feather in a coloured Art Marker towards the middle of the balloon from each side. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to colour circles up to and over the beginning of the feathering line (go from the centre out to the side). Then do the other side, again starting from the middle. This will fade the colour to almost white giving a great transparent look to the balloon. to soften edges of colour. To get soft edges with the Clear Blender Art Marker, the colouring that you are working on must be wet. A crisper look will occur if your colouring area is dry. to create lots of special effects. Colourless blending technique. Use a coloured Art Marker to colour an area. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to take colour out, lightening the area. As a general rule, if your coloured area is dry, the crisper and sharper your Clear Blender Art Marker image will be. When applying the Clear Blender Art Marker to wet colouring you will get a fuzzier and rounder shape. This Technique looks best when the final image is cut out and mounted to a base card.
Stamping and card stock: Stamping with Art Marker You can stamp with Art Markers. Be very fast, as the alcohol evaporates quickly. Use the Art Marker to colour the stamp, then quickly stamp the image. You can also wet the card area with the Clear Blender Art Marker first, then use the Art Marker to colour the stamp image, then stamp into the wet area. You will get a sharper image. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to cover the stamp then quickly stamp the image, over a previously blended background. This will give you a watermark effect. Stamping on Plastic Sheets and Vellum Most of the normal Art Marker techniques do not work in the same manner for colouring on Plastic Sheets or Vellum. Even the colour outcomes change. They usually appear brighter. Stamp using StazOn, but colour on the reverse of the stamped image. Take care as the coloured area stays slightly sticky and will react to Glossy Accents if being used as the adhesive. Tip to Tip blending and Palette Blending are the best colouring techniques for Plastic Sheets and Vellum. Gloss Card Gloss Card works very differently to White Card. The colour will often be lighter on Gloss than if you were using White Card. Tip to Tip blending and Palette Blending are the best colouring techniques for Gloss Card. We suggest that you just use the Art Marker as you would use colouring pencils, ie straight colouring. The Circle and Basic Blending techniques do not work very well on Gloss. Feather Blending is better but will give a streaky look. Colour changing embellishments: Art Markers are great for colour changing embellishments. Colour change Brads, Rhinestones, Ribbons, anything metal or plastic, fabric, glass etc. The chisel tip is best for colouring Ribbons and Masking Tape. The possibilities are endless. With thanks to Amanda Cordingley who spent many hours creating and testing these Tips and Techniques.
Alcohol Ink Art Marker Questions and Answers by Amanda Cordingley Remember, practice, practice, practice! The more you use Art Markers the more comfortable you will become. Don t rush the process, enjoy the colourful journey. My Art Marker tip is turning white? This means that it s time to buy a new Art Marker. My Art Marker tip is stained? Colour it out. If the stained colour does not cross to the paper when colouring, then just accept it. Will a dirty tip on my Clear Blender Art Marker cause damage? Yes it will. If left, it can contaminate up into the Art Marker barrel. Immediately work out the colour on the tip. When colouring, I moved my card and it smeared? Work with scrap paper underneath. The scrap paper will absorb excess saturated colour. It is normal for the reverse of the card to have colour coming through it. I was colouring and a new colour came into my work? This colour could have come from your scrap paper, where a previously used Art Marker colour was still wet on the scrap paper directly under your colouring area. It then transferred over onto your work. Regularly move or change scrap paper when it becomes too wet. If I colour outside my image, can I fix it? Yes you can. Use the Clear Blender Art Marker to push the colour back over the stamped line. Do this by circle saturating the area with the Clear Blender Art Marker, in the area just outside the colour. It will move the colour back across the line. Some colours might leave a residue. Hide it somehow. Be inventive. My blending is feathering out past the image line? It could be that you are working with an incorrect inkpad or paper. Start again with correct inkpad or paper. Your stamped image may still be wet, heat tool dry it. More than likely it s because your colouring is too wet (oversaturated), allow it to dry a little before adding any more layers. Make sure that scrap paper is underneath. My card is pilling where I am colouring. Test the paper first. Change to a more suitable card. My colouring is uneven? This means that the paper is not saturated enough, rework it, colour slower, saturate the paper more. Turn the paper over, is the reverse colour even? My colouring is streaky? This usually means your colouring dried out before you finished it. This can happen on large areas. Reworking it will make the colour darker. You can rework it with a lighter colour than originally used. I have finished my blending but my colouring looks like two separate colours sitting beside each other? Rework it and have the two colours overlap each other. Use light layers to go over the in-between area or cover with a lighter colour Art Marker. When colouring on Gloss Card it looks different? Yes it will. It will often be lighter in colour than if you were using White Card. Tip to Tip blending and Palette blending work better on gloss than Circle Colouring or even Feathering. As a general rule, this also applies to colouring on Plastic Sheets and Vellum. Does the Clear Blender Art Marker work differently on Gloss Card. Yes it does. Practice first on a spare piece. Can I stamp with my Art Marker? Yes. Be very fast though as the alcohol evaporates quickly. Use the Art Marker to colour the stamp, then use the Clear Blender Art Marker over that, for a watercolour effect. For a sharper image, wet the area with the Clear Blender Art Marker, then use the Art Marker to colour the stamp image, then stamp into the wet area. Can I use my Art Marker on fabric, metal, glass and ribbon? Yes, but test each fabric and ribbon type before. Remember that Art Markers are permanent.