Back to ink painting experiments

 

As the title says I used my time with Megan on Thursday to try a few ink paintings - see opening photo. I was testing out the notes I made when I did some experimentation way back when!!!

First stages are taping the area to protect from the ink and doing the base sketches and marking up with pencil and permanent pen - below.

I intended to see how putting ink over a rough acrylic ink painting would go - I was aiming to get a ghostly image under the ink wash.

A few process photos follow including testing resist solution for the moon. Also I relearnt that it is important to clean the surface of the yupo paper with alcohol to remove fingerprint oil. I also need to find a suitable tool to swipe the ink wash across the work without leaving so many marks; and without using so much ink. Both the wide brush and balsa wood fail on both counts. 

A photo of the moon photo follows - after removing the resist I applied acrylic ink and then a drop of alcohol ink to ocular the moon.

The experiment of doing the rough acrylic painting was a fail - the ink over the painting virtually removed all the colour from the painting. I'm going to redo the painting with permanent ink pen and then do the over wash agin - will see how that works. Still I'm learning more as I go along.