Do you add ink before or after watercolour? This is completely up to you! It’s a personal preference. Some artists (including myself) will choose to ink before adding watercolour, and some artists prefer to ink after they have applied their watercolour.
Also, can you mix ink and watercolor?
You can paint with inks as they are or add them into a wet wash of watercolour for dramatic effect. … They can be mixed into watercolour paint to strengthen the colour or can be mixed together themselves to create more colours from a basic palette.
Just so, how do you make ink with watercolor?
Steps
- Choose your paper weight. When creating an artwork with both ink and watercolor, you’ll need to use a heavier, more absorptive paper than if you were just using pen and ink. …
- Select a paper texture. …
- Pencil in the subject of your drawing. …
- Apply liquid mask over your pencil lines.
Can you rub out pencil after watercolor?
Heavy applications of almost any watercolor can lock pencil marks to the paper, making the marks difficult or impossible to erase. Usually this is a problem only for colors with a light mass tone.
What kind of pen do you use with watercolor?
The Uni-Ball Signo is a great beginner-friendly option. It’s affordable and one of the best ink pens for use with watercolor. It’s waterproof, fade-proof, and is able to create smooth, thin lines. It also doesn’t leave stop and start marks at the end of long lines and marks like most gel pens do.
