Mixed Media with Niji Artist Crayons & Sumi Ink
Try mixing it up with crayons and sumi inks to create layered mixed media pieces!
In this livestream recording artist Karen Elaine covers:
🖍️ Crayon rubbings
🖍️ Watercolor resist
🖍️ Sgraffito
🖍️ Ink color mixing
🖍️ Painting on washi
🖍️ Creating your own signature Hanko stamp (a.k.a. chop)
This video was originally livestreamed on the Yasutomo Facebook page on Friday, 10/13/23.
Items Used
For an easy, shoppable overview of the items used in this demo, visit our Mixed Media with Niji Artist Crayons & Sumi Ink collection HERE.
Listed roughly in order of appearance in the video:
- Niji Artist Crayons
- Hosho Paper Pad (6H)
- Mineral Paper 240 gsm pad, 11" x 14" (JMP400G)
- Vermilion sumi ink (KV2)
- Black sumi ink (KY12 is the 12 oz bottle Karen used)
- Round white porcelain dish (WCW210)
- Hake brush (BFC1)
- Waterproof drawing ink (Karen is using the Higgins brand India Ink)
- Palette knife for scratching
- Judikins MicroGlaze wax (to seal and finish the piece)
- Hosho Paper (6H)
- Vermilion Ink (KV2)
- All Purpose Brush size 00 (SW00)
- Combo bamboo pen and brush (TP235)
- Small Gansai Set (WC211)
- Japanese rubber block for hand carving stamp (Karen got hers on Amazon) or a vinyl eraser
- Pencil and paper (to draw your design)
- X-acto knife (to carve your design out of the block)
- Ranger carnation red ink stamp pad
Find Karen online:
Instagram: instagram.com/karenelainecreative/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KarenElaine
Tag us in your posts on Instagram @yasutomo_art and @karenelainecreative so we can see your creations 