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I totally abused my moleskine this time. When I finished it was very wet.
I was trying to follow the technique described in a book. Using a sketch I made last year as a reference, I drew the flowers using a bamboo pen and waterbased ink (Ecoline). By the time the pen, which was loaded with ink, hit the surface of my moleskine, the sketchbook sucked up all the ink at once. It was quite difficult to control. I then brush some water over the ink.The sketch is supposed to be a loose ink wash. But the ink didn’t want to spread at all. I soaked the page with loads of water, it didn’t help. Once the sketchbook absorbed the ink, well, that was that then. I then added some watercolor to soften up the sketch a bit. It helped.
This makes me wonder, what kind of paper actually is best for ink wash?
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After all the adventure it is a quite good result!
Comment by pmbc — February 23, 2006 @ 2:08 am
Maybe hot pressed watercolor paper would be the thing for ink washes? The moleskine paper is difficult for wet work — this came out beautifully, though, even if it didn’t turn out the way you initially planned!
Comment by Linda — February 23, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Sooo beautiful flowers…
Comment by Elif — February 23, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
Thank you everyone!
Linda: I’ll try that and experiment.
Comment by Eefje — February 23, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
I really enjoyed hearing about your experiment with this drawing. I love the color and loosness of the drawing. I’d say, keep going!!
Comment by lindsay — February 25, 2006 @ 2:33 pm
Evie, it is totally gorgeous! I like to do this to my Moleskine also. I just love the results.
PS, I have tagged you to reveal 4 things of different categories about yourself. Lin tagged me and now I am tagging you.
Comment by TeriC — February 25, 2006 @ 7:52 pm
Thank you Lindsay & TeriC.
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TeriC: Also thanks for the tag
Comment by Eefje — February 26, 2006 @ 10:06 am