The Ecoline and Colorex watercolor inks which I am using are not lighfast eigher. They are very intensive when you use them without watering down. I wanted to find out how much I could thin them down by adding water and was surprised by the results: I used left over ink from the day before, added some drops of water and still got some color on the paper. I then let it dry, then placed ink from the stabilo pens on selected spots and used my waterbrush to dissolve the ink. Nice!
2025-05-19
Watercolor inks and Stabilo pens
I had bought them years ago - used them a bit and then kept them in a brown cardboard box. At the time I had bought them Stabilo pens only had a bullet tip (Stabilo 68 pen) or could be bought in the same colors as fineliners. They come in many colors, are dyebased and therefore not lightfast.
2025-05-15
Watercolor inks and colored pencils
This is my fourth painting of May. Actually I feel a bit proud because I have been able to paint regularly in March, April und up to now in May as well. I am still creating images with the use of AI, but I keep up a good balance between doing traditional and digital art.
With this painting I added colored pencils to my watercolor ink painting. I always like to try out new things - so I grabbed my colored pencils and finished up the painting with them.
2025-05-04
Switching between mediums - Watercolor inks now!
In one of my last posts I said that I had so much fun painting with acrylics that I wanted to keep on painting with them. I did not. The painting on the left has been done with watercolor inks, also called liquid watercolors.
Instead of criticizing myself for not adhering to my goals I thought about whether it is a proper goal for me. What is my most important goal? The answer is: to have fun being creative and doing art, and with that the kind of medium I am using is not important for me.
I used Ecoline watercolor inks and Colorex watercolor inks, and, of course, I did an abstract painting. Not that I do not like landscape paintings, or floral paintings, or even stillife (although this kind of painting does not speak to me as much as the others do), but I am an abstract painter, inrerested in shapes, textures, and color combinations.
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