Nick Stewart Inspired Ink Washes

[Audrey T]

Very cool.

[axialix]

@mizgeorge Wow! Great colors from that gray ink. That blue is intense. Very nice! I can't wait to see the rest.

 

Keep trying @Audrey T. What kind of paper are you using?

[Audrey T]

13 minutes ago, axialix said:

@mizgeorge Wow! Great colors from that gray ink. That blue is intense. Very nice! I can't wait to see the rest.

 

Keep trying @Audrey T. What kind of paper are you using?

I was just joking about my general tendency to splash ink everywhere, regardless. I haven't tried this technique yet. But in any case the joke was meant to be in service to the compliment -- you have a lovely, light hand.

[dipper]

I also enjoy loose sketching with ink and water. The samples below were drawn with home-made wood or metal ruling pens.

 

Thanks for the introduction to Nick Stewart's work. That has inspired me to try some new directions: wetter washes, use of bleach, and development of chromatography colours.

 

Meanwhile..... here are some old sketches with my previous simple monochrome tonal sketching techniques . . .

 

Pot plant

 

The old stump

 

Storm brewing

 

The potting shed

 

[inkstainedruth]

Very nice work.  Thanks for posting!  I particularly like the one of the potting shed, because it looks as if you're starting to get a hang of the tonalities in the washes.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InesF]

Thanks to @axialix for opening this thread and to all the other contributors.

I like these type of ink washes/drawings a lot! It's something to be considered for ink testing.

[axialix]

Hi again everybody. I’d like to add a few new inks and also revisit some old ones. This time I’ll be using only hot pressed watercolor paper. In theory, the sheen should be more visible and hopefully the colors more vibrant. You be the judge. I’m trying to branch out from trees so come along for a mountain high.

 

First a few new inks:

Diamine Imperial Purple: a lovely shade of purp with gold sheen

Diamine Earl Grey: a complex and beautiful ink (no sheen, but still nice)

 

 

Cheap Cartridges (who knew these had any sheen at all?)
Manuscript Black:

Manuscript Blue:

Manuscript Green:

 

And to revisit some previous inks:
Colorverse Black Hole:

Colorverse Hubble Zoom:

Colorverse Saturn V:

Some bleach weirdness:

Colorverse Supernova:

Iroshizuku Take-sumi:

Sailor Yamadori:

That’s all for now, but there’s more ink samples on the way. Until then, I hope you'll keep feeling them:

[Catpaws]

i love this thread! These are all so beautiful!

[Audrey T]

1 hour ago, Catpaws said:

i love this thread! These are all so beautiful!

Yes, they're gorgeous.

[mizgeorge]

These are fab @axialix - I have to admit to being particularly impressed with the manuscript cartridges! That blue is lovely

[yazeh]

Like @mizgeorge, I Love what you've done with the manuscript blue especially. 

If you like sheen you might have some fun with Koh - I- Noor ,document blue/lbacks. 

 

[PithyProlix]

13 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

These are fab @axialix - I have to admit to being particularly impressed with the manuscript cartridges! That blue is lovely

 

3 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Like @mizgeorge, I Love what you've done with the manuscript blue especially. 

If you like sheen you might have some fun with Koh - I- Noor ,document blue/lbacks. 

 

 

I was going to say that I am now very curious what that very pleasant blue looks like in the 'normal-use' writing situation. I cannot find a thing with a Google image search. 

[axialix]

53 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

I was going to say that I am now very curious what that very pleasant blue looks like in the 'normal-use' writing situation. I cannot find a thing with a Google image search. 

 

There was some talk about them in this thread, but it was awhile ago and I haven't read the whole thing: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/314342-cheap-ink-cartridges/

 

59 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Like @mizgeorge, I Love what you've done with the manuscript blue especially. 

If you like sheen you might have some fun with Koh - I- Noor ,document blue/lbacks. 

 

 

That's definitely my kind of price. How's the flow on this ink?

 

 

[axialix]

3 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

 

I was going to say that I am now very curious what that very pleasant blue looks like in the 'normal-use' writing situation. I cannot find a thing with a Google image search. 

 

Here's a shot of the Manuscript blue written with a Nikko G nib. Looks pretty close to the color I see:

 

Here's some more shots showing the sheen which is a nice reddish/goldish color:

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[PithyProlix]

3 hours ago, axialix said:

 

Here's a shot of the Manuscript blue written with a Nikko G nib. Looks pretty close to the color I see:

 

Here's some more shots showing the sheen which is a nice reddish/goldish color:

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Thank you very much and I'm sorry I am hijacking your thread ... but not sorry enough to resist continuing to hijack it. 😁

 

Your pictures are great, as before, and I am now even more intrigued by the ink. I did find a description, here, that is makes it seem like it would really fit my tastes. I also found this one picture, which is from an Indonesian Shopee store: 

 

(While searching around for this ink, I also found some images of Manuscript Sepia, which I think might be an unidentified ink I've been trying to figure out that came in a second hand fountain pen I purchased. I think it is a very nice color.)

[yazeh]

11 hours ago, axialix said:

 

There was some talk about them in this thread, but it was awhile ago and I haven't read the whole thing: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/314342-cheap-ink-cartridges/

 

 

That's definitely my kind of price. How's the flow on this ink?

 

 

I've tried the black one . The flow is wet. Note the ink is waterproof so you need to adapt your technique.

 

[yazeh]

12 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

 

I was going to say that I am now very curious what that very pleasant blue looks like in the 'normal-use' writing situation. I cannot find a thing with a Google image search. 

If you check in the ink reviews you can find one. In order to see the photos you have to copy paste the entire link.

[PithyProlix]

6 minutes ago, yazeh said:

If you check in the ink reviews you can find one. In order to see the photos you have to copy paste the entire link.

 

Great - thank you @yazeh! Now I really want that ink... (A link to a review of Manuscript Sepia is there, too, and I really like that color as well.) 

[yazeh]

4 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Great - thank you @yazeh! Now I really want that ink... (A link to a review of Manuscript Sepia is there, too, and I really like that color as well.) 

Always a pleasure 🙏

[inkstainedruth]

16 hours ago, axialix said:

 

Here's a shot of the Manuscript blue written with a Nikko G nib. Looks pretty close to the color I see:

 

Here's some more shots showing the sheen which is a nice reddish/goldish color:

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Oooooh!

Love the sheen in combination with the edge crispness/shading (what some people here have dubbed "haloing").

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth