There is an illustration of one of these above, left. The pen and ink approach proved to be especially useful for the abstract composition parts of the series. We will show you all the different ways you can use India ink in your drawing. I dipped a pen nib into the ink and proceeded to lay in basic elements of the designs. India ink is a standard staple for ink artists. I bring India Ink everywhere I go, with pointed bamboo and the cutter to sharping the bamboo. I was painting every day with that media before meet the digital media.
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Solving that problem was relatively easy as there were acrylic based black inks readily available at my local art supply store. I am gonna show you how to make an artistic ink style that adopted the traditional technique. This is because the subsequent acrylic paint would act as a solvent to the shellac and (at least partially) dissolve any careful design. What I sense (but don’t know) is that painting indirectly, which makes use of underdrawings in a foundational and yet implicit way, has gone somewhat out of vogue. Thus the information I found only partially addressed my interest.Īnyway, the first important thing I did find was to avoid traditional shellac based india ink. Kandahar Black Indian Ink is ideal for illustration work and in mixed media techniques, for example with watercolours, and does not discolour easily when. I want the underdrawing itself to play a role in the final painting – and not just in a paint-by-number, outline kind of way. Most information I found concerned transfer of the design and then getting rid of the drawing as soon as possible. To my surprise I did not find a lot of information online about creating an underdrawing for painting in acrylic.
Since I haven’t used the medium for about forty years I had to search around a bit to see how best to do that. Thus for starters I wanted to transfer the basic elements of the design to each panel. I am currently involved in a project which calls for thirteen panels to be executed in acrylic according to a pre conceived design. Pen and ink Underdrawing for A Piece of Me #59
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