I’ve seen many of the inktense pencil videos and use on fabric, yours stand out on the shading technique! Love the rainbow blended shading and the two color shading as it gives this cat light and character! I’m a quilter with no art background. I started shading my appliqués with fabric markers to give it some light and depth plus it covers up raw edges as well, making raw edge appliqués Versatile, don’t even need adhesive. (Just cut out about .75” around the object, then FMQ stitch it with a piece of batting on the back that can be trimmed to the stitch line before final quilting.) Then I moved on to add inktense pencils. Reviewing techniques now for an ambitious landscape project I’m about to attempt. So appreciate this advice on shading! Wow.
Thanks for showing the use of inktense pencils, there are no helpful videos out ther on the net. I’m following you and will catch up on all your videos. I’m hoping you sell some of the drawings,like the cat.,and others. Enjoying!
Once the paint is dry, set it with an iron it should be color fast. I don’t know how many washings it can do. She also has a video on how to set with an iron-dry about ten seconds and use a rag or cloth to protect bleed onto the iron. FYI.
I have a question about the textile medium. I used some (ceramcoat) I think. It makes a sort of film on my pencils and blocks. Once it is dry there is no using that pencil unless I scrape off the medium. It's my first time seeing your video, so I will be watching more! Thank you
Hi Kim! Good question… yes if you let the fabric medium dry on any of your tools such as intense pencils or the blocks, it basically forms a skin. I tell my students that they should always wipe their blocks and their pencils with a paper towel dampened with a bit of water in order to get all the fabric medium off after they have finished coloring. Often with pencils, I have to sharpen them in order to get the skin that has formed off. When using the blocks, I find that scraping a bit of color into a paint pot and then mixing it with the fabric medium works a little better. Hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me again if you have any further questions.
Inktense pencils are a type of water color pencil, but instead of pigment and binder they are made with dried India Ink. Having said that, I have a number of washed items that I colored with watercolor pencils and fabric medium and once heat set, washed just as well as items colored with Inktense pencils. I think the biggest difference is that Inktense is permanent on fabric if you just used water whereas watercolor pencils have to have fabric medium in order to be permanent and washable. Please let me know if you have any further questions! ;-)
