Design Media: Ink Painting

Video Transcript

"Back to this one. OK, you can kind of tell on watercolor paper and I'm not sure that camera will be able to get this. It's damp when there's just a very slight sheen on it. This still looks a little wet but down here near the bottom it's still not dry it's still not mat but it's just a little wet so it's probably not, it's probably in a good place to try but basically what you would want to do is do a line drawing on a sheet of paper that has been dampened and so here I am drawing my line. I am going to draw a, see this is going to be big this is still to damp when it spreads this much but what the heck. I am going to go ahead and do a line drawing of a leaf and what this is this is sort of the grand view of it but what happens is that you get this fun you know you don't have a hard edge line. You get this sort of spreading line. The, you know and you have to find the sweet spot between wet and dry. The other way you can do this is to come along afterwards with a wet brush right along the edge and that will draw the paint the ink out. So that you can soften the edge a little bit and then if I come at it from the other direction, where I'm working into it bringing the water to it. That's when how can start to sort of make your ink kind of start flowing in puddles. You work like this with watercolor too and this is really you have to get some watercolor paper is the surface to use with this and it's really a question of finding out what water does and what it can't do and you know this is the extreme example. I am going to see if it's still too wet. No, see there's were it's just dry enough and it's just barely shivering the edges of the line. So you know you can you don't have to be hard edge with you ink if you don't want to be."