Exploration of Acrylic Inks : Due July 2nd
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janae
"Art is what you can get away with" -Andy Warhol
I don't have mine yet but the tutorials on Pinterest put down water first (like in a circle or a line) and then drop the ink into it and let the drops flow into the water.
Next time I‘ll try it that way.I don't have mine yet but the tutorials on Pinterest put down water first (like in a circle or a line) and then drop the ink into it and let the drops flow into the water.
I had to clear off my big workspace for company to eat on. After all, it is my dining table. So now I have all the stuff i will put on the table in my wagon. You can put a lot more stuff in a wagon than carry in your hands. I looked for some smaller circle rubber stamps that I wanted to try. I found a couple of other things that were not labelled clearly--my distress inks and envelope patterns. Sometimes rediscovering art materials is almost as fun as buying new stuff.
Yeah, a lot of the videos I’ve been watching you put the water down first and then you put a drop of the ink into the water, but I imagine there’s other ways of doing it also
I have been adding alcohol inks to the acrylic inks. I also found a rubber stamp that will stamp a design using acrylic ink on clear acetate. I did a couple smaliish pieces, using water color paper. And they turned out well. I am making big pieces and will find parts I like and they will become my ATCs. I have a couple of clear ATCs I use to find interesting ATC-sized areas.
CallunaCreative
ATC Novice
Process pic of my abstract acrylic ink cards. Ive been wanting to try this method of taping down and working on several cards at once, so this seemed like a good time. Thinking of adding some text...
I will have to withdraw, unfortunately I have to take care of some personal things, so I will be stepping away from swaps for a while.
CallunaCreative
ATC Novice
Ready to send!
CallunaCreative
ATC Novice
entinthewoods
Newb
Thank you!
I've been putting inks on dry watercolor paper, either with a brush or with the eyedroppers that come with. And then add either a spray of water and/or drops of alcohol inks. I thought you had to have nonporous paper for the alcohol inks but they worl well and spread out on the wc paper. I'm curious to see how they turn out. I want to add some foreign text, probably torn in pieces. And I got some clear gesso to fortify the added papers.
I use acrylic inks to intensify areas of a watercolor painting. The acrylic inks are so much more vibrant and really make the watercolor image pop!
back in the day like when they signed the declaration of independence, the pens didn't have ink flowing through them like they do today, so they used to dip the pen into an inkwell until it ran out then dip it again. Think of a caligraphy pen, but without an ink cartridge...I personally don't use them but some folks love them.
Things I've figured out: If you wet the paper you can get more blended (watercolor like)) colors. If you put the ink directly on the paper it is more vibrant.