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| Dark sky, tree-lined water's edge. |
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Plain alcohol leaves white spots for stars, and add a halo
to woodburned stars. |
In addition to the alcohol ink bowl exploration, we tried to use the inks as a paint palette. Small gourds had poppies, beach scenes, and night skies put on them using layers of inks. Color applied on top of color. The layers built up an image of sea water waves, rocky coastlines, or tree-lined water's edge. Using polyacrylic makes the colors sing. The concern, and wonder at this point, is whether or not (or to what extent) the color will keep absorbing into the gourd over time and fade. That is an experiment that only time will present. Sharpee color, as demonstrated in earlier posts, does fade over time. Would that happen with the amount of pigment left behind when our homemade inks dry?
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