Acrylic inks are a facile illustration medium that can be used in mixed-media projects.
Acrylic Inks are a merry and gifted course to add colour to a completed Craft project, or they can be used alone to constitute a delineation. By reason of of their giant pigment standard, they are adept for apply as highlights on acrylic, watercolour, pastel or other mix-media Craft projects. Their colour is typically in clover, dingy and agonizing and when dry they at the end waterproof, aloof close acrylic paints. They chalk up a thin, watery consistency yet akin watercolour mediums after aqua has been added. This present ink is very pigment based and designed to chore with pen tips and airbrush nozzles.
Instructions
1. Fix upon how you would commensurate to account acrylic inks in your project. Due to the thin consistency of acrylic inks, they are adaptable Sufficiently to be used with ruling pens, specialized pens, airbrushes, bristle brushes and other picture tools.
2. Prepare your delineation surface. Acrylic inks occupation chipper on paper and canvas pads designed for watercolour paints. You can very manipulate the inks on top of Craft projects created with acrylic paint. You cannot use them over oil paint, however. If you will be using watercolor paper, you may want to wet and stretch your paper first, to avoid paper buckling while you paint.
3. Mix your colors. Unlike typical paint medium, these inks don't work very well mixed on the painting surface. In addition to the fact that they are watery in consistency, the acrylic polymers in the paint tend to make it stick fast to paper and dry quickly. This makes mixing directly onto paper very difficult.
4. Small plastic tubes with thin round metal tips can be used to distribute a thicker, but more even, line of ink onto a canvas. Add textile medium to acrylic inks to paint directly onto fabric clothing or home textiles, like dish towels or pillowcases.6. Add color and accent with acrylic inks, after a layer of watercolor or acrylic paint has already dried underneath. Once they are dry, they are insoluble like acrylic paints.
5. Get creative and use tools other than a brush to add inks to your painting projects. For thin outlines, dip a ruling pen into the ink color and add it to your painted surface. Paint the background of your painting surface first, when using acrylic inks as a paint medium. If you want to capture the luminosity of watercolor paint with water-thinned layers, let each layer dry in between coats. Beware when using these inks, however: While they may be acrylic-based, they will run, when they come into contact with water, much like watercolors.
Just be careful when adding additional paint over the top of these previous layers. This can be an advantage or disadvantage, depending upon the effect you would like to achieve.
