In the Studio: Next!
[In the Studio, April 10th, 2011 /Image & Artwork: designslinger_studio]
After drawing, drawing and more drawing, plus practicing cutting lines and notches on to some scrap pieces of linoleum while constantly thinking about the mechanics of working with a color medium I'd never worked with before, oil-based printing ink, I came up with an idea to try and help me better understand the dynamics and properties of ink vs. oil paint.
[In the Studio /Image & Artwork: designslinger_studio]
I'd work with oil paint before, but discovered that inks weren't always available in the same colors I'd used and mixed together when painting in oil. So after much reading and searching, I came up with a basic ink starter palette of my own. But the transparency of certain colors based on manufacturer instructions, and the contradictory information about whether a light ink should be printed over dark ink I'd gotten from reference book reading, was making things more confusing rather than clearing things up. Then, out of the blue (no pun intended) I had an idea, what if I took the starter ink palette I'd come up with and created a color sample board. The more I thought it through the better the idea seemed, and so, after figuring out how to get those 14 basic colors into a variety of sample situations, I started on my own personal color test project. I'll let you know how it turns out in a week or two, once the ink dries.
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