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.

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! 
 

2025-05-15

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.