LinaSundqvistIllustration

Daler & Rowney FW Acrylic Ink

Acrylic ink is like a mix of watercolor and water resistant ink. I really like the FW line because they are quite matte and opaque. I dislike shiny finishes because they can't take more layers of watercolor or colored pencils. I am a mixed media artist so I like all of my mediums to work together.

I use Winsor&Newtons Indian Ink because I thought it looked the most black out of all the indian inks, but other than that I use the FW line.

I own raw sienna, flesh tint, scarlet, antelope brown and white. I have mixed my own sepia with white, antelope brown and black and use that A LOT. I am going to buy the real sepia of the line and the other dark colors look very appealing, as the cause of me using acrylic inks in the first place is that they are more opaque and water resistant, which is great for really dark shadows.

The color chart

As I said, I like to use inks with watercolor, but watercolor is my main medium. Here's a tree I made with my own sepia mix and indian ink. The rest of the colors are watercolors and dry aquarelle pencils (Museum line) from Caran D'ache.

Here is another forest. The only ink I used was indian ink.

And lastly, this is a crow demon, made with indian ink as a base.

Thanks to Inktober, I realized how incredibly useful acrylic ink is for my type of painting. I am really glad I tried it. It is important to try new things and get out of your comfort zone. I know it sounds so cliché but it is true, especially when it comes to art. I find it very boring painting the same thing and in the same way for a longer period of time.