This was so much fun; thanks for sharing! I’ve also enjoyed using a palette knife, lids of cosmetics, and silicon color shapers (a type of artist brush).
Love the tips and techniques. Esp how to contain the mess when doing ink splats! I, too, love the look of the splats but couldn’t justify all the mess. I will def keep this mind for future arty experiments. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! That tip was passed along to me using a full sheet of paper rolled up and I found modifying it to folding worked better for me- just glad not to have so much cleanup after having done fun with Ink! Enjoy!
A couple of good ideas in here - nice! In case you haven’t run into it, the Maruman notebook you have - the Mnemosyne - is “nu-mah-sî-nay”…..like the Greek mnemonic. One of my favorite notebooks. Happy inking.
Thank you! I have in the queue a Part II, as I've been recommended and unearthed a few more inky methods that are fun to employ! Thanks very much for the breakdown of Mnemosyne, that's very helpful!
interesting stuff. I hate the q-tip method because like you said it doesn't show the ink characteristics, but it is a good indication of how an ink will look with standard nibs. For my swatches I just put a couple of drops, then blow air out of the bulb syringe. I find it creates veins where the shading is more pronounced the longer the vein and at the end is a pool of ink. Then I add a couple of drops on top where there isn't much ink. I also love the way Liane Likes does her ink swatches.
This was so much fun; thanks for sharing! I’ve also enjoyed using a palette knife, lids of cosmetics, and silicon color shapers (a type of artist brush).
Thank you! & thanks for sharing some of your favorites! Oooh a palette knife!
Thank you for this. As an FP neophyte, this was super helpful.
Welcome, that's great! Are you into sample inks, bottles, or both? What type of inks are you favoring?
I usually use an automatic pen and Kakimori nibs for swatching. This gave me lots of ideas! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I'm very fond of the kakimori nib design!
Love the tips and techniques. Esp how to contain the mess when doing ink splats! I, too, love the look of the splats but couldn’t justify all the mess. I will def keep this mind for future arty experiments. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! That tip was passed along to me using a full sheet of paper rolled up and I found modifying it to folding worked better for me- just glad not to have so much cleanup after having done fun with Ink! Enjoy!
I love dropping a drop of ink on my card or page than use my bulb syringe to blow the ink around a little.
Thanks! I'm gonna have to try that out!
A couple of good ideas in here - nice!
In case you haven’t run into it, the Maruman notebook you have - the Mnemosyne - is “nu-mah-sî-nay”…..like the Greek mnemonic. One of my favorite notebooks. Happy inking.
Thank you! I have in the queue a Part II, as I've been recommended and unearthed a few more inky methods that are fun to employ!
Thanks very much for the breakdown of Mnemosyne, that's very helpful!
These are very pretty
Thanks! I was excited to use them!
interesting stuff. I hate the q-tip method because like you said it doesn't show the ink characteristics, but it is a good indication of how an ink will look with standard nibs. For my swatches I just put a couple of drops, then blow air out of the bulb syringe. I find it creates veins where the shading is more pronounced the longer the vein and at the end is a pool of ink. Then I add a couple of drops on top where there isn't much ink.
I also love the way Liane Likes does her ink swatches.
Thanks! I'll have to give that inking method a try, I like the idea!
cool idea!
Thank you!