Ink Wash techniques - Cathy Johnson（凯蒂墨水和清洗技术-约翰逊）.pdf

Tip #81 Ink Wash techniques One of the easiest and most stress-free ways to work with watercolor is to give yourself some guidelines - either pencil or ink - and splash in the color over that! If youre more comfortable planning ahead, do a light pencil sketch first, then ink it before adding watercolor - but I like to just jump right in with the ink. It saves time, and its fresh and spontaneous. Distant Herd, in tip # 80, was done using the same technique on the same rainy summer day as this 9 x 12 demo. 81-1, landscape, inkwash progression Art 81-1 Keep it simple To get your feet wet, figuratively speaking, choose a simple landscape like this one, #1. Do a quick ink sketch of it - I used a Micron Pigma .01 pen in black at #2. Finally, splash in colors, letting them spread and blend as much as you like on the paper-the ink seems to set you free from worrying about the watercolor so much! #3 Be sure you use a waterproof ink, unless you really want the softly blended effects or the wild lines you some- times get when a really dark ink line gets wet! 81-2, inknotes 80-3, Distant Herd Art 81-2 Take notes... You can make a very rough sketch on the spot, and make written notes right on it, if you need to! Here, I only had time to get the basics in before the rain threatened, so I made color notes right on my sketch (#3). I finished up in color, as shown at #4.size. (This one appears in my new Ink Wash CD, along with many, many more ex- amples.) 81-3, inknotes Try COLOR... Use different colors of ink, if you like-that can add to the mood and spark up the final effect! I used a burnt sienna ink on this vignette of the recently remodeled Oaks Hotel.