![]() ![]() ![]() Looking at your pencil sketch I can see the subtlety & sensitivity, it occurs to me that brush drawing would very much be what you are looking for, it would satisfy your need for speed & smaller size. A unique & very nice nib which if cleaned every few dips in ink will handle your indian ink just fine. There is one dip pen witch gives gorgeous lines of widely varying thickness & is very expressive like a bush that is the “Joseph Gillot nib no.1290”. i’ve chosen india ink.” That sounds very much to me that that you should forget dip pens nearly entirely – you know all those spidery thin lines that steadily build up over many hours to build up tones over many hours or days. Hi Ronsu, You say ” my goal now is to pick up the means and know how to make something quickly. Thanks for looking, here’s a sketch for fun, with a hand missing and schmuts transferred from the doodles on the opposite page…. ![]() If you feel like it, your personal preferences in acrylic inks, brushes, their combinations? which brands of pen are professional, offering zero disappointments in pigmentload and behaviour, absolutely not just inexplicably drying up on me in 8 months (and maybe resistant to pendling indoor temperatures if that’s a factor)? I love the idea of picking up a pen and putting it away but my stupid wallet disagrees. while in europe and most of you in US, what is the smart buy in acrylic ink? (i could draw a line or make a splotch with oils since they’re littering the place.)Ħ. Various oil&acrylic paper qualities, arches, fabriano, georgian and conda.Īny comments on paper+india ink behaviour appreciated, most interested in any angles on ink on sized acrylic/oil paper. Mi teintes colored pastel/oil pastel paper how do i find the whitest paper? do you guys have like a secret vocabulary? am i able to varnish/fixate mixed media including india ink?Ĥ. are there other types of treatments to prepare grounds, does gesso accept india ink with brush and nib?ģc. ![]() what is the difference between archival and acid free? what is the projected longevity, 200 years vs 20? or 200 vs 2?ģ. I don’t have my health so all tips promoting speed and ease in handling, cleaning are seriously welcome!Ģ. what is the difference between natural and synthetic brushes with india ink? looking at acrylic pens rather horrified at the prices.ġ. I’ve a big bottle of india ink, two nibs, one holder on the way. Visualizing using brushes, nibs, silicone tools, twigs, what have you, with a few color acrylic ink pens (primaries, couple of earths), working on small supports. It was only in the mid-17th century, when Europe began importing ink from India, that it became known as ‘Indian Ink’.Īrtists that have used ink to good effect include:- William Hogarth, Henry Moore, Deanna Petherbridge, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Cecil Collins.With a long starting stretch in oils, my goal now is to pick up the means and knowhow to make something quickly. Black ink was known as ‘masi’ in India, a mixture of different ashes, water and animal glue. In India, scribes have used needle and pen since antiquity to write many of their Buddhist and Jain scripts. Traditionally, black inks were favoured by Chinese artists who excelled in producing monochrome paintings, where the gift lay in creating texture and emotions through strokes and varying shades of black and grey. Often using animal glue as a binder, the black ash pigment was dried into small sticks or little saucers which needed to be rubbed with water to create a liquid ink. A recipe by the Greek scribe Dioscorides (40 – 90 AD) still survives on parchment.Īround 3000 BC, drawing ink appeared in China. Different recipes for carbon black can be found as far back in history as the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. It can be made from any ash, mixed with a binder such as water, white vinegar or gum Arabic- which is hardened sap from the Acacia tree. It flows well on the paper producing strong, crisp black lines or washes.Īlso known as Chinese ink, Indian ink stems from one of the oldest and most durable pigments of all time: carbon black. We wanted to run a small drawing workshop for the visitor team using Indian ink that we mixed and produced by ourselves.Ī permanent and opaque black, Indian ink mixes well with other colours creating cool dense tints. In this post, Dave explores the origins of Indian ink and takes our audience through a workshop in which we made our own ink drawings.ĭrawing workshop in the Learning Studio on Twelfth Night 6 th January 2020. ![]()
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