Can You Put Acrylic Ink In Water Brush

How to mix watercolour with ink

Past Artists & Illustrators | Thu 13th Feb 2020

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Creative person Jean Betteridge explains how to add together ink to your paintings to create dynamic watercolours

You tin pigment with inks as they are or add together them into a wet launder of watercolour for dramatic effect. The inks I use come in small glass bottles with a pipette dropper in the lid. Platonic for either dispensing into a palette or for drawing direct onto a piece of work. Also bachelor are pearlescent and shimmering colours, which are nice to use for something a little different.

Some inks are water-based (like string dyes), while others are acrylic-based. I prefer the acrylic-based inks because they are thicker in consistency and have vibrancy and intensity that other inks lack. Sometimes it's squeamish to add that little extra 'oomph' into a painting, and acrylic inks are ideal for that. They can be mixed into watercolour paint to strengthen the colour or can be mixed together themselves to create more than colours from a basic palette.

Using inks

You can employ ink with a brush, much like paint. Ink is fluid enough to paint with straight away; there is no need to water information technology down or prepare it. The paint is a lot stronger, and it is permanent, and so bear this in mind.
1. If y'all are using a dropper bottle, clasp a little ink into a small container – a bottle summit is perfect.
two. Utilise the ink but as yous would prepared paint, applying it with watercolour brushes.

Silhouette of copse

The night indigo of the trees confronting an atmospheric ink background really helps prove off the best of each medium. I spattered and moved the ink and paint around, lifting up my paper and letting it run and merge and create interesting patterns and effects before waiting for it to dry to add the trees.

Adding ink to wet pigment

Try dropping ink directly into wet pigment using a brush. The pigment is strong plenty to show through. White ink is peculiarly effective, equally it is a great way to reintroduce light into your piece of work. Tip the painting every bit you piece of work to encourage it to motility and flow.

Fine marks

Ink will bleed into wet pigment a little, so first with minor marks – they volition abound. A rigger castor is ideal to apply tiny marks.

This is an edited excerpt from Dynamic Watercolours: An Exploration of Colour, Texture and Technique by Jean Betteridge, Search Press. It first featured in the February 2020 outcome of Artists & Illustrators magazine.

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