Starting to become a little bored with the restrictions of technical drawing in my sketchbook, I wanted to regain some freedom so tried to incorporate ink and metallic paints into my work. Something to add a little more flow, colour; getting me away from my ruler, compass and fine liner details. Last term I bought some gold calligraphy inks to use in my fashion project, but I used more fluid inks instead, rather than these six shades that come in a palette. I thought this is is a better time than ever to try them out. They took a bit of getting used to, you have to use a lot of water at first to get them soluble enough to then paint with - it takes a lot of stirring on the surface with the paintbrush! Once I got them onto the paper, they came to life, with so much shine! The nice thing about them was that unlike with my bottled inks, I wasn't restricted to one shade of gold, there was a range from a very yellow, 'standard' gold colour, to white gold and platinum. This was great for the tarnished metals that I was going for, although maybe still a little bit too much on the shiney scale, but we'll get there. I guess they dry with more of a glitter look, rather than smooth look like that of older metals. I painted them onto a dark background to get a stronger metallic look, using my trusty Quink ink to do so (my all time favourite).
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