Got lemons, make lemonade. Got marker bleed-thru, make bleedthrumanade.
Ingredients: Letraset Promarkers & Fineliner; Faber-Castell Big Brush; White Pentel Sunburst Gel Pen; Paperblanks Antique Map journal.
Bleedthrumanade for the first Sunday in June
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I am intrigued by this technique… and checked out the brief 'tutorial', but I'm confused. I just don't get it.
The essence of it is that you color with something that will bleed to the back of the page, and then you tangle on both sides.
You let the color be your string. Sometimes the bleedthru color will be so different that you get a totally different string. Sometimes it is almost the same, and the challenge is change up your tangles. You can also change how you approach the string. Sometimes, I just trace the various color sections. Sometimes, I'll decide each section should have 2 colors in it. Sometimes, shapes will suggest themselves to me, and I'll trace those as the string.
Bubbles and translucense are kind of my 'thing', so todays bleedthrumanade is more complicated than most would care to do for zentangling.
Okay, it's a bit more clear. What paper do you recommend that has good bleed-thru properties? Thank you for clarification.