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Author: Sonia, Contributing Editor
 | I dilute the waterproof Indian ink slightly (two or three drops of distilled water to a tablespoon of ink). Using a reasonably wide flat brush, the ink is quickly washed over the whole painting – this needs to be done swiftly and lightly so that the gouache doesn’t have time to get softened and disturbed. The ink sinks into the paper where there is no protective layer of gouache. |
| Another wait to ensure this has dried completely – then the scary part! The painting is held under a tap of running water and, with the help of a stiff brush (and fingers crossed), the water dissolves the gouache taking the covering layer of ink with it, leaving the ink outlines intact. It may be necessary to spend quite a bit of time scrubbing the paper to get rid of all the surplus ink, but hopefully, despite all this abuse, a recognizable image eventually emerges.
In this instance, the image on the left shows where my brush strokes of Indian ink overlapped - the ink had thickened in the bottle and I had not diluted it sufficiently. Time to get out a nail brush and try to scrub away as much as possible of the offending lines using warmer water (see right). |
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| After yet another period of drying, the picture is ready to have its final coat of paint. Usually I use watercolour for this final stage, but on this occasion the simplicity of the subject seemed to demand a bolder treatment so I used gouache with the addition of some acrylic ink details in gold and silver. |
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This step-by-step article displays a fairly simple image, but it is possible to achieve more detailed paintings with this method, as shown by the following examples. |
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