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Painting with inks

27/4/2012

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I've recently been experimenting using acrylic inks. They give bright clear colours and can be over painted without fear of lifting the previous layer as they are water resistant when dry.


The technique I have used is to paint the shadows first using just black ink, diluted to give grey shades. Darks can be gradually built up in layers. Watercolour paper is used as a surface.


Once a grey scale image is achieved it is coloured using coloured washes. I have used just three colours - process cyan,  process magenta and process yellow. These colours are the ones used in printing and can be mixed to produce any tone required. The inks are mixed to the required shade then applied over the black and white image like a watercolour wash.




This painting of Shutlingsloe (a distinctive hill on the Cheshire-Staffordshire-Derbyshire border) illustrates the stages in building up the finished work. 

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Shutlingsloe - This image shows the painting with just the black ink applied. It has the appearance of a black and white photograph
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Shutlingsloe - Here we see the same painting after the colours are added. The foreground grasses were masked to retain the lights.
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    My name is Jon Webster, I am a self taught artist who works mainly in watercolours..

    I paint a variety of subjects – landscapes from around Cheshire where I live as well as scenes from my travels around the world. 
    © Jon Webster 2011
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