When coloring with alcohol markers, I often make little mistakes that drive me NUTS!
I didn’t even know you could erase your mistakes until one day, I was looking up how to use my colorless blend, and BAM!
I found The Frugal Crafter YouTube channel.
She explained you could erase your mistakes using a colorless blender.
I ran like the dickens to my stack of coloring books and opened up my “Wonky Doodles” and “Day of the Dead” to see where I could erase some mistakes.
Here are three different tests I conducted to see if erasing alcohol markers using your colorless blender would even work.
!Warning before you start!
>> Using this method means you’re going to soak your page and bleed color through to the next page.
Add 2-4 pages behind, or add something that won’t bleed (like plastic or wax paper) behind the extra page you put behind your coloring page.
Erasing your alcohol markers using a colorless blender soaks the page more than you’ve likely seen before, so be careful not to ruin the pages behind the page you’re working on.
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Alcohol Markers I’m using
In this post, I’m using these affordable Amazon alcohol markers. They are inexpensive, easy to revive when they go dry, and work great.
Test #1 – Small areas of alcohol marker
Here I had little areas I wanted to remove. I ran the colorless blender over the page several times, and it bled the color through and bleached the page.
SUCCESS!
Here’s a video of the process.
Test #2 – Something harder – an alcohol marker that bled through to the next page
When I decided to try this, I knew it would be a great test of this method.
This is alcohol marker color that had bled through to the next page (duh! I forgot to put a page behind it), and it was a pretty big area.
I went over it several times, and it worked quite well.
When it was all dry, I looked, and it damaged the page a little, but it worked well, and I’m satisfied.
SUCCESS!!
Test #3 – Erasing black alcohol marker
I knew the ultimate test would be removing black alcohol marker because it’s soooooo dark.
^^Here’s my colorless blender.
I found this page in my “Day of the Dead” coloring book with a little bit of black that I messed up.
I added my pages behind and started with the colorless blender.
>>See how I tested this in my YouTube video about it (or click the video above to watch).
It wasn’t perfect…
… but it looks much better than before. So I went over the black alcohol marker mistake again to see if I could erase it once it dried the first time.
It’s much better than it was, so I’m calling this a success.
What mistakes can you erase?
Do you have some mistakes in your coloring books you’d like to erase with your colorless blender?
Give this method for erasing alcohol marker coloring mistakes a try today!
If you do, feel free to tag me on social media or leave a comment and let me know how it worked!
