Mix a tonal colour palette
This post will help you develop your own tonal colour palette for more subtle colour schemes with just a couple of inks
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Category: Inks
Printing with tonal colour
An exercise to help develop colour confidence People often arrive for courses saying they want to...
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Mix your own black ink
When I decided to write this post to share my experiments with alternatives to black ink it seemed...
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The transparent ink question
People are often confused by the difference between transparent ink and linseed oil, and how these two elements affect your inks for printmaking.
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Improve your collagraph prints with white ink
White ink has an interesting effect on your collagraph prints
It is hard to say exactly what has happened, but there is a distinct and positive improvement in the print, a bit like the way someone looks when they come back from holiday. Your print has more substance, more energy, and more clarity.
Cleaning up printmaking inks
I think my first question ‘why clean up?’ is the wrong one to be asking. Cleaning up is an integral part of the printmaking process and one we should embrace in the manner of the Zen monks. It clears your mind after a printmaking session, providing a pause to your rhythm of work. If you spend time developing a cleaning up routine that suits you, the ritual soon becomes part of your creative practice.
A meditative cleaning up process helps you to love your tools and care for your studio space, leaving it ready to begin your next bout of creative activity.
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