Painting Skies with Watercolours

I have a special way of painting my skies; I use a technique with bleach and Quink ink.

1. Materials: domestic bleach and quink ink watercolour paper and a wash brush.

2. Dilute the ink with water until you are happy with the strength of the ink. Make a few tests on scrap paper.

3. Do the same with the bleach and test the reaction of this solution on the ink tests that you have already done in the previous section. Do some tests with wet bleach on wet ink and see how it flows and some on dry ink as you can control it more.
N B remember be careful when handling bleach, follow the health and safety guidelines on the bottle.

4. When you feel confident about the process apply a wash of ink with the wash brush on to the watercolour paper and then add your solution of bleach, and allow the sky to form itself magically in front of you.