What you need
- Water
- Brushes
- Inks/Dyes
- Paper towels
- Spare print to test
Method
- Thoroughly drench your brush with water.
- Pick up a tiny bit of ink from the top edge of the bottle
- Test out the strength of the dye on your scrap image. You don’t want it to be dark, you want it to be really watery and pale. (if its too saturated with ink it will make dyed saturated parts)
Tips
- You want to layer up colour
- Use smaller brushes for adding saturated details
- You can mix colours on your scrap image-use lots of water + separate brushes for. (So you don’t contaminate the bottles with different colours.
- If saturated with ink, it will make stain marks. Think about wetting your image a bit first so you can push the colour around better
- FotoMask is a solution that can be painted on to sections of your image to protect the image from getting any ink on it.
- You want to dip your brush tip in (you don’t need much) and paint it on to the area you want to mask.
- Be creative.
Reflecting back onto this activity, I found this activity to be quite interesting, but also at the same time i found it to be quite difficult as I do not have a very steady hand making the process harder than it should be. But if I had thought at the time I could have used the FotoMask so that I did not go over onto the areas of the photo i did not want to cross. I would also like to next time I try this activity, to try a more vibrant colour mix, such as splitting it into thirds so one third of, green, yellow and red.
Jake Walker 