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Ink can be for much more then just drawing! Ink has a wonderful brilliant vibrance right out of the jar that can be used in many of the same ways as watercolor paint. One of the benefits however is that it's already in liquid form. In this post we'll use ink to create some nice washes and we'll use it with a traditional dip pen. We're working on a send-up of one of our favorite Rembrandt drawings on an Ampersand Aquabord Panel, which is an awesome wet media surface. It gives you all the benefits of working on paper without the buckling and warping.
We'll begin by brushing water onto the panel to assure some nice bleeding of color. Then we'll water down our inks and do some light washes, letting the color do whatever it wants.
Here we can see how the washes lend themselves ot the drawing that we are going to do on this panel. Using the organic shapes of the first washes we can determine the composition of our final drawing which you can see being laid in here with another yellow wash.
We'll use that second yellow wash as a guide for our drawing. The drawing is done with black ink and a Speedball Artists Pen Set. The wash helps speed up the drawing process and adds some richer color underneath the black lines of the pen.
Now that the drawing is complete, we'll go back in and do a much darker red wash to finish our composition and help the drawing stand out. Here is the final result....
So get out there and give it a shot, try drawing over some washes... Try doing the drawing first and using the ink washes to color your images. If you create something you like we'd love to see it! Send an image to learningcenter@utrecht.com. Share
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yes the ink is pigmented india ink...
a reader-
no need for fixatives. once the ink has dried into the aquabord it's not affected by adding layers on top!
thanks for reading!
-utrecht learning center
Posted by: Learning Center - Mar 26, 2009 1:54 PM