Monthly Ink Challenge - Season IV

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, yazeh said:

I saw several videos on how to create a foggy landscape. It seems quite labour-intensive. Anyway, I tried my best to create a foggy landscape and and after a few hit and misses, here is the one which is acceptable.

Good job, @yazeh!  I believe the labor-intensive part - must be really hard to draw something so edge-less.

[yazeh]

12 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Good job, @yazeh!  I believe the labor-intensive part - must be really hard to draw something so edge-less.

Thanks @LizEF. If one is too do it with pencil its often done with subtracting. With watercolor it's the reverse. But the tricky part is to remove excess ink being absorbed by paper.  And as I may go to ink is Lexington Gray maybe it's not the best choice of ink and I need to use something washable. But then I have to multiple tests and then you know how it is, especially if one is impatient and has a backlog of ink reviews 😄

[LizEF]

36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks @LizEF. If one is too do it with pencil its often done with subtracting. With watercolor it's the reverse. But the tricky part is to remove excess ink being absorbed by paper.  And as I may go to ink is Lexington Gray maybe it's not the best choice of ink and I need to use something washable. But then I have to multiple tests and then you know how it is, especially if one is impatient and has a backlog of ink reviews 😄

I understand, but only in the vaguest terms from observing others and playing with "washes".

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

I understand, but only in the vaguest terms from observing others and playing with "washes".

This is my understanding: If I were using a water soluble ink, like Diamine Gray, I would have more control on the different values (darkness and light) as the ink can be easily washed away. As I use a bulletproof ink, I need to use methods to counteract it's desire to bond with paper. So, I need to wet the paper before hand, so that the ink doesn't bond right away. Hope it makes more sense. 

On a lighter side, today, I made a mistake of putting a live bird video feed, for her majesty, while she was having a cuddle on my lap. Boy that was a mistake, she nearly jumped on the desk and for next half and hour was looking for birds behind and around the computer screen. 

[LizEF]

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Hope it makes more sense. 

Yes, perfectly!

 

17 minutes ago, yazeh said:

On a lighter side, today, I made a mistake of putting a live bird video feed, for her majesty, while she was having a cuddle on my lap. Boy that was a mistake, she nearly jumped on the desk and for next half and hour was looking for birds behind and around the computer screen. 

My boys get a live show every day.  I moved one of the poles for the feeders closer to the other, so now both are right outside my living room window - it's quite the show, with lots of tweeting and squawking.

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

My boys get a live show every day.  I moved one of the poles for the feeders closer to the other, so now both are right outside my living room window - it's quite the show, with lots of tweeting and squawking.

She gets the live show too. Now early morning, she wakes me up, wanting to go out, "joining" them. I put her bird colour on, and she goes out pretending she's a statue, but the chickadees mock her  

I was thinking of your setup. It's like BIrd Paradise (some sort of Aves ParK), free food with live entertainment, with two of your predators in an aquarium. It must be like us, watching an action/horror movie with popcorn 

[LizEF]

14 minutes ago, yazeh said:

She gets the live show too. Now early morning, she wakes me up, wanting to go out, "joining" them. I put her bird colour on, and she goes out pretending she's a statue, but the chickadees mock her  

Birds do seem to enjoy teasing some predators.

 

15 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I was thinking of your setup. It's like BIrd Paradise (some sort of Aves ParK), free food with live entertainment, with two of your predators in an aquarium. It must be like us, watching an action/horror movie with popcorn 

Cat Almost-Paradise on the inside, Bird Paradise on the outside.  It's all fun until someone smashes into a window...

[yazeh]

16 hours ago, LizEF said:

Cat Almost-Paradise on the inside, Bird Paradise on the outside.  It's all fun until someone smashes into a window...

The smashing in the window/ glass door happens when another feline appears.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

The smashing in the window/ glass door happens when another feline appears.

Oh yes, smashing, floofing, growling, and hissing.

[yazeh]

This is another take on fog, instead it's smog with wildfires still going on strong South of the border in US. 

I used the end ofmy  Montblanc Origins Coral, did a wash. As it's a Talens mixed media paper, when I added a bit of Sailor Kiwa-guro and did an extra wash, it created this ember, eerie martian effect. 

 

[LizEF]

14 minutes ago, yazeh said:

This is another take on fog, instead it's smog with wildfires still going on strong South of the border in US. 

I used the end ofmy  Montblanc Origins Coral, did a wash. As it's a Talens mixed media paper, when I added a bit of Sailor Kiwa-guro and did an extra wash, it created this ember, eerie martian effect. 

 

ember, eerie, Martian indeed! Fiiiii-re!

[InesF]

On 11/18/2024 at 2:06 PM, yazeh said:

I saw several videos on how to create a foggy landscape. It seems quite labour-intensive. Anyway, I tried my best to create a foggy landscape and and after a few hit and misses, here is the one which is acceptable. 

@yazeh, no doubt, this is how a landscape looks like through foggy glasses - in case you forgot to rent the mice with mobs!   

 

Well done!  Thank you for participating in the Co-Razy-View!

 

PS: still no date when I will do my own contribution. 😓

[InesF]

On 11/18/2024 at 8:15 PM, yazeh said:

As I use a bulletproof ink, I need to use methods to counteract it's desire to bond with paper. So, I need to wet the paper before hand, so that the ink doesn't bond right away.

Indeed, that reads like a lot of effort! I never heard about using bulletproof ink in watercolour technique. +1 honor for you! 👍

 

12 hours ago, yazeh said:

This is another take on fog, instead it's smog with wildfires still going on strong South of the border in US. 

I used the end ofmy  Montblanc Origins Coral, did a wash. As it's a Talens mixed media paper, when I added a bit of Sailor Kiwa-guro and did an extra wash, it created this ember, eerie martian effect. 

+1 honor = +2 honor in total! Thank you, @yazeh!

Now I'm considering "fog of life" well interpreted! 👍

Maybe no need to add more by myself? 🙄

[RedPie]

Nice and foggy @yazeh. I like it a lot.

[yazeh]

@InesFthanks for the comments. It seems I need to play with different grey now. I thought I was done with testing grey inks  The reason I did the smog version was that I remembered how water soluble the Montblanc ink was. I believer the trick with waterproof inks is to use water colour paper, wet the papered then apply the ink. Sometimes I use too water brushes. One is half filled with 1:1 Lexington Gray and the the other pure water. It feels like playing curling on paper. As I try to diffuse / dilute the ink before it bonds with he paper  

If you have the time between experiments/ reports/ laughing outbursts etc, give it try. I'm really grateful because it forced me to practice different techniques and do a lot of experimentation, and as you know we learn more from our failed experiences  🙏

 

@LizEF &  @RedPiethank you!

[yazeh]

Repeat post!

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, yazeh said:

It feels like playing curling on paper. As I try to diffuse / dilute the ink before it bonds with he paper

Perfect visual!  (I remember tripping over curling late one night at a friends house when I was a teenager - they had cable.  I watched with a sort of bewildered fascination.  I didn't understand a thing, but it was oddly appealing.  I rarely see it, but I do enjoy watching - and have learned a little more.  And yes, it's just this moment that I realized I could probably watch all I want on YouTube. )

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

Perfect visual!  (I remember tripping over curling late one night at a friends house when I was a teenager - they had cable.  I watched with a sort of bewildered fascination.  I didn't understand a thing, but it was oddly appealing.  I rarely see it, but I do enjoy watching - and have learned a little more.  And yes, it's just this moment that I realized I could probably watch all I want on YouTube. )

Glad the visual was helpful. Same here. I find curling fascinating, mediative. But like you I don't get it, but that's true for most of the sports.  

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Glad the visual was helpful. Same here. I find curling fascinating, mediative. But like you I don't get it, but that's true for most of the sports.  

What's not to get - it's like playing marbles with flat marbles and brooms.  I'm envisioning children in some frozen wasteland assigned to sweep off the front porch, finding rocks, seeing the iced-over pond....

[Mercian]

Curling - like golf - was invented in Scotland.

 

As a sport it's almost as daft, and almost as full of obscure rules and measurement units, and almost as pointless - and just as deep and as fascinating - as the English game of cricket