More Mini Prints

Weather Over Pear

Today I wanted to try making a few more prints.  My Akua Intaglio was a mess.  I am not the tidiest painter with ink and rarely wash my brush adequately because it is that little bit more difficult than swilling it in water.  I keep my inks in coasters and stack them to store them. Just setting them up makes my hands filthy.

I decided to refill and straighten the inks out with a palette knife before begining.  It took me over an  hour to complete this bit of housekeeping but during the process I realised a few things.  The inks had air dried to such an extent that they were much more like oil ink and had been behaving that way more… once they were cleaned up they were runnier and don't hold the line as well.  OOPS. The other thing I learned/rediscovered is that  I can mix bespoke colours using Akua pigment with blending oil, so I made a few colours. The blue int he sky is now a sky blue ready to use.

Chartreuse Light on Blue

What's nice about working this small is it is difficult to spend more than a few hours on a print, so in a day I had made two prints. Among other things, I am aiming to produce eight mini prints for my.  I'm not sure which print to send to Lesley at Red Dot to replace the print that sold, but I'm reconfiguring spaces on a small scale.