Hi, my name is Maya Eisexon and I'm here for Spectrum LAR and I will show you today how to make pretty background using aquatins. So I started with this paper tape to a board and before starting I wanted to show you how I keep my aquatins, I have taken them all out of their original packaging and put them in this art bin bag and I give them wind numbers on the lids together with the pipettes that I also labeled and a small swatch. So you can see I put the names up on the tops and you can find it also on the side there. And this is because I don't want to mix up the lids and accidentally contaminate the colors. So the colors I'm using today is pink one and dark blue navy sort of color. And as you can see I have labeled all of my pipettes too because I don't have to be very clean. I don't have to clean them as much. I put some dimole labels on them like this so you can see the numbers and it says me some work. I also have this little swatch pad that I made with all the colors collected so it's easy for me to just look around and see what color I like, see the number and grab the jar out of the art bin. And I keep it standing up and none of my jars has so far leaked so that's great. So let's start on the project done. I start by taping the on some watercolour paper on a wooden, it's a clipboard sort of thing to keep it from warping. And then I use the original packaging for the jars where they were as a palette. And I wanted it to shimmer a bit so I use the clear overlay spectrum nor sparkly pen to add some shimmer. And I do this just scribbling it in the plastic packaging in the bottom and it will be enough to make it shimmer. I'm not because these pens are super shimmery or glittery. And then I will add the color and with the aquatins they are very pigmented so you don't need a lot just a tiny bit. And I add it with the pipette. And if you want you can also add some water because it will still be, especially this dark blue way, be very pigmented. And I just suck up some water in the pipette after I'm done and squeeze it out of the mine. It's fine. So that's the navy color and then I'll add the pretty pink from the pastel set I think. And then I just mix it up a bit to put the glitter in the pink sort of. And it's pretty good because it won't fall over when you put it in that plastic packaging. I start by spritzing it all with water because I wanted to blend very softly and make nice patterns. And to make sure I have gotten it all wet I had. I use some brush. And you can see it's pretty wet. I use quite a lot of the water. And then I start by adding the lighter color because you can put it on a larger area. If you put the dark color first it will just mix up. So I start with the light one. And then I add some dark blue. You don't have to put as much because it will overpower the pink one. And this is just playing in here for me. I add some splotches and dots and it sort of mixes itself a bit. It doesn't look like much now but then you have to tilt it a bit and mix it. I try not to go in with the brush too much because I don't want it to be on it's top. And I will also go over it with my heat tool. And we just try some other exits because we want to try as fast otherwise. And I use my heat tool. I make sure to mix the colors a bit more. I can blow it in the direction that I feel. It needs some more color or I want to mix it a bit more. You can see that it looks very soft and beautiful. I have a lot of water so I just do some regular tissue paper to remove some of it. And I just be careful to move the heat to the round so I won't make burn marks anywhere. You can see it's really really really good. Then I use my sparkly pan again and I just add splashes because I just flick it to my paper. It will make drops that will make even more than the background. And I will add some heat on that too to make sure I don't smudge it because that will get everywhere when you get it on your hands. So it's always good to dry it a bit. And then I add some water too because the aquatins when you add water it reacts so you can sort of lift some of the pigments away. I just roll tissue paper roll and then I dry it again. And that's pretty much it. I will show you all the sparkly you can see it in the light because it's really really pretty. This tape is a painter's tape for the lipid surfaces so you can't tear the paper. You can see it. Hold those little blobs that sparkle and also the background will sparkle. I will try to shine it with my phone. I have the light from my phone. Let's not see if you can see it to be better. It's really cool because it will look different every time. Now I will show you another product that I made with the same colors and the same method that looks quite different. So it's the one I did for practice. I just did the same way and I added some sparkly to come to the diamond in the middle. Really cool. Thank you so much for watching and visit Spectrum Narb blog for more inspiration and information. See you another time. Bye bye.