Thursday 21 March 2019

Starter inks


Oki, so, so far I've managed a black, gold, copper and red inks - albeit the black one is being tricky. You would think that's just hubris fucking with me, because black is fundamentally the simplest one to synthesize, alas. Where I'm failing is creating a sufficient acrylic medium from stuff I have lying around. It also feels like my thinnest quill tips are oily or something, when I attempt to use the shimmering two. Not enough ... honey? I'm not adding the ox gall to ink, the last thing you want is the bleeding gall is supposed to encourage in the paint. Just need to use thicker tips. Then again there isn't much I can't do with a very thin brush. Time to write a nerdy love letter. 

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