Ink resist is an exciting technique that you can use in your own paintings, see how o this video. Free tutorials on ARTiful, painting demos: paintingdemos.com/ Music: Into The Night by WMG
Wow, Sandrine! Not only have you introduced the very exciting resist - but you show us how to build the transparent layers of color. I am so eager to go practice! Thank you!!
I wish I had kept a bottle of tempura paint. I gave it all to my kids ceramic teacher. I’ll keep an eye out for a cheap bottle of it to try your technique! It came out gorgeous ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This technique makes the painting look like a complicated silk screen print. I really love the results and find it easy to understand as its being demonstrated!
I got my tempera paint today, but it is black. I may add some white gouache to it so that I can distinguish it from the India Ink. Do you think it will work?
I like to experiment with different media. I rarely use only one in a piece. THIS IS SO COOL!!! Ugh! I’ve got so many supplies, because I’m always wanting try to create different styles requiring medium I have to go buy. I’m curious. Would alcohol ink made to use with resin work? I may have to test it! Lol! Your perspective about it will be greatly appreciated!
Nice effect, the dog provides a bt of added interest as well. Other art technique videos I have seen would benefit greatly from the addition of a dog or other, similar household pet.
Thanks Cecilia, I used Opus fluid acrylics, it was the colors from the essential acrylic color set: store.opusartsupplies.com/sagro/storefront/store.php?mode=showproductdetail&product=87049#!prettyPhoto
Thanks liberal sprinkles :) Yes you can use poster paint but it is more fluid than tempera paint so it will probably work a bit less effectively as a resist.
You can use tempera instead of he gouache for sure. I guess you could replace the ink with acrylic ink but India ink washes away more from the canvas so you can get interesting textures, I think acrylic would bind more permanently to the canvas.
Question for you Sandrine: no tempura, can another paint be substituted? Maybe gouache? Fantastic technique and love your final result, I just found you and am Just in love with your work! Thank you
Hello Sandrine. Thanks for sharing this. What india ink are you using in this technique? I tried Speedball Super Black which is said to be "Permanent / Waterproof / 100% Carbon Black Pigment", but it washes out easily from the canvas non-covered by tempera. Wondering if this is poor quality of the ink or something else...
Igor Z Hello Igor, Most brands of ink will wash away if you scrub a bit too hard. You have to do it very gently. It will help if you let the ink dry completely before washing of the paint. You could also try a different brand. I think I used the brand Royal. If you want to avoid completely that issue, you can try this technique on paper or you could paint a layer of acrylic or drawing ground on the canvas before. Personally I like that some of the ink can wash off a bit from the canvas as it allows for some textures and transparency in the inked areas.
Igor Z Hello Igor, Most brands of ink will wash away if you scrub a bit too hard. You have to do it very gently. It will help if you let the ink dry completely before washing of the paint. You could also try a different brand. I think I used the brand Royal. If you want to avoid completely that issue, you can try this technique on paper or you could paint a layer of acrylic or drawing ground on the canvas before. Personally I like that some of the ink can wash off a bit from the canvas as it allows for some textures and transparency in the inked areas.
Thanks for your response Sandrine. I did some experiments with inks on the white canvas and paper. Apparently Speedball india ink easily washes away from canvas (by very gentle scrubbing with wet soft brush), but survives washing from watercolor paper. So looks like it is non-waterproof at all for canvas.. However, Platinum Carbon ink stays on both canvas and paper, but it is too good (and expensive) to use with resistance technique :). I am going to look for and try Royal.
Lise Cabble songwriter yes you could, especially if you work on paper. You can on canvas too but you just have to be careful with the pigments lifting when you try to layer Colors.
I am not treating the canvas but I recommend you use a waterproof ink and leave it to dry maybe overnight. Also you need to go very carefully when rubbing off the ink in the sink.
Sandrine Pelissier perhaps I should have let it dry overnight. I have done this technique in the past on watercolor paper and it worked better if you didn't leave the ink overnight.
Yes, that makes sense. the ink will bind into the crevasses of the paper and stain it more than it will on canvas. With the canvas the risk is more too much lifting of the ink as with paper the risk would be too much staining of the ink.
My one concern is how much chemicals are going into the water - and the amount of water being used seems wasteful. There has to be another way to do this. :-)
