Drawing inks are water-based media made from various plant and mineral colorants. Any given ink may vary in tone due to the purity and concentration of its ingredients and its degree of dilution. Historic drawing inks are commonly hues of brown, reddish brown, gray, and black. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, synthetic, chemically-processed colorants dramatically increased the range of hues available to artists.
Traditional inks share certain properties with watercolors and can be made with comparable materials; however, watercolors always contain solid pigment particles. Inks, by contrast, can be composed of dyes and are of low viscosity, allowing them to flow smoothly from a pen.
Before the invention of steel nib, fountain, and felt tip pens in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, artists used broad and narrow quill and reed pens. Inks may be diluted to produce lighter washes. Brighter areas and highlights may also be achieved by scraping ink from the paper. Four types of ink derived from natural substances traditionally have been used for drawing: carbon-based or lamp black, iron gall, bistre, and logwood.
Lamp black ink has been used since antiquity. This stable carbon, soot-based ink is made by burning oils or pine resins. It produces strong linear marks and can be diluted to create transparent gray washes. It was popular in Northern and Central Europe in the sixteenth century and experienced a revival in the nineteenth century. Left: Bernard van Orley Netherlandish, ca.
I want to do a series like this. It's a process that I experimented with in the Netherlands some years ago, but I didn't have as good quality reeds as I do here. William Thomas Tonner, [ More Details ] A gifted and prolific artist as well as poet, William Blake often drew imposing figures placed within a shallow stage, as in A Destroying Deity , the subject of which has never been precisely determined.
The flowing black ink lines, applied here over a preliminary graphite sketch, suggests the flexible handling of a quill pen as it defines the contours of the figure and the finer details of the face and wings. To create shape and volume the artist applied ink washes with broad brushstrokes, using subtle tints and touches of blue and red watercolor in the wings and lips to enliven the forms.
The placement of the hands in the original graphite drawing was subtly adjusted by the ink lines, leaving the graphite to echo the forms and enrich the drawing.
Other subordinate details, such as the spiral twists of his tridents and the small figures beneath the deity's wings, were merely suggested by the graphite, enhanced with an occasional ink line. Ruskin also wrote three artists' manuals, including "The Elements of Drawing", , in which he advocated carefully drawn studies from nature such as Beanstalk seen here.
This drawing is a beautiful example of the fine lines and delicate tones that can be produced with pen and ink and graphite pencil. Golden brown ink delineates the entire image, especially the veins of the leaves, and is most clearly visible in the tendrils at right. Ruskin further defines the stalk and leaves with faint strokes of black ink and graphite pencil, while additional touches of opaque white watercolor enhance the elegant forms of the leaves.
Long ago, on a blustery Mediterranean shore, an ancient Roman man slipped and slid across a crumple of rocks in search of booty. After some time, the sodden man found his treasure in a gently lapping pool. As our introductory story illustrates sepia is a natural and ancient pigment. The famous orator kindly and concisely explained how sepia is made by removing and treating the contents of the ink sacs of various sad cephalopods including cuttlefish and octopus.
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