![]() ![]() The most common formula is mixing 2 parts ink to 1 part distilled water. When the ink is diluted with water, the drying time is also quicker. Two types of inks that are often diluted are fountain pen ink, calligraphy ink and Sumi-e ink:Īrtists who use calligraphy ink or fountain pen ink commonly dilute the ink to increase the ink's fluidity. In this case, adding water will help return the ink to a more useful state. If you've had a bottle of ink for awhile, some of the moisture in the ink may have evaporated, making it thicker and harder to manage. Here's one more reason why you might want to dilute your ink: Distilled water is inexpensive and can be easily picked up from the grocery store, so it's worth picking up a jug, because it will go a long way! ![]() Tap water is not good for ink, because the minerals and fluoride in typical tap water can disturb the ink's chemistry and cause it to separate. Leggett, please visit her blog, Paper, Paint, and Print.It is highly recommended that you dilute your ink in distilled water, rather than tap water, especially if you are using India ink or fountain pen ink (also known as calligraphy ink). While the gouache resist technique is a rather convoluted process (and the reveal after washing off the ink is consistently a surprise-and not always a welcome one!) I quite like the “woodcut” appearance of the final painting. Fortunately, my alterations blended in well. Rather than abandon the painting after all that effort I opted to try and make the necessary adjustments with some white acrylic and pastel. Normally I would consider the painting finished after that, but on this particular occasion I realized that I hadn’t applied the gouache thickly enough in a few places which left me with some areas which I considered far too dark. Because of the drastic nature of this technique, most of the watercolour base had also been washed off, so I began to add more saturated watercolour washes over the top. With the aid of a stiff brush, the gouache dissolved, removing most of the ink that was painted over it, while the areas untouched by the gouache were clearly defined.Īfter another patient wait for the work to dry, I assessed the outcome. Then, after another period of drying time (to let the ink dry) it was time to put the painting under the tap, still taped to its backing board. too much scrubbing and overlapping of brush strokes at this stage would disturb the gouache layer. The gouache needed to be thoroughly dry before I took a wide flat brush to wash Indian ink quickly and with a light touch over the whole image. You can see the first areas of white gouache being applied in the image above (note the white tiles on left-hand roof). I left single-layer applications where I wanted shaded or grey areas in the final piece. For areas I wanted to keep very light I made sure I applied more than one layer of gouache. The gouache was carefully painted over the base wash, leaving proposed dark areas and outlines untouched so that the subsequent India ink could sink into the paper. The computer-aided layout was traced onto stretched watercolour paper, and a variegated base watercolour wash laid down and allowed to dry-this wash enabled me to see more clearly where I was applying the white gouache which followed. So that was my choice of medium for this subject. NOTE: My primary medium is watercolour, but I have used an Indian ink and gouache resist technique on a number of occasions over the past few years and find it particularly suitable for depicting old buildings. I enlarged and combined both sections on the computer for my final layout (10” x 6”). Later, for my studio painting, I decided to crop out the far left of the pink building and, with reference to my sketch and a photo, I adjusted the Village Store for a head-on view, but left the cottages as they were. The following scene was sketched while on holiday in Suffolk, sitting on the village green overlooking some wonderful wonky houses and a general store with a very low lintel-hence the name of the store and painting, Duck or Grouse Village Store. ![]() Leggett in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials ![]()
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