Up: [[Water-Based Media]] Created: 2025-05-14 Updated: 2025-12-06 I have a large collection of Daler Rowney inks. Liquitex is another brand. Use watercolour paper, ideally 300 gsm. Mixed media paper works, but there isn’t the same flow. A little bit of acrylic ink goes a very long way. If you put too much ink on and try to use it like paint, you don’t get the gorgeous transparent qualities of the ink. #### Texture Put down titanium white heavy body or gesso in random brush strokes that you can see. Use something that you can lay on the brush strokes, pushing down and pulling up in different spots to give different kinds of texture. Ideas for the something are paper towel, stencils, bubble wrap, netting from a bag of fruit, etcetera. Let the brush strokes dry. Put ink over them later. #### Wet in Wet Try releasing most of the ink back into the bottle and just touch the damp paper with the dropper. You can get different effects by dropping a dab of 90% isopropyl alcohol. If you have put a complementary colour on top of a colour, the alcohol resists through to the colour underneath. #### Drawing You can draw with the dropper or you can spill out some ink and use a pencil or skewer to draw. #### Spontaneous Painting Draw with water, then drop ink into it and see what happens. #### Resist Draw with oil pastels. Put just a couple of drops of ink and brush over the resist with a damp brush. #### Tinting Acrylic paint and acrylic ink use the same binder so they can be combined. You can put down acrylic paint and tint it with acrylic inks.