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Hi Everyone.
This thread of the forum has been so useful, I've been coming back to it again and again over the last year or so. I've just set up a blog for doing interviews with (mostly traditional tattoo) painters about their technique and tips, design choices and other stuff about tattoo history - I thought it might be of interest to someone reading this thread!
https://flashruleseverythingaroundme.wordpress.com/
https://www.instagram.com/flashruleseverythingaroundme/
Thanks!
Painting Methods & Materials
in Tattoo Designs, Books and Flash
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Oh, and in the spirit of the forum, here is the most recent painting I did.
I tried using F/W acrylic black ink for the first time, with dr ph martins radiant watercolours and a waterpen for spit-shading. The acrylic ink is so much easier to get a smooth and short blend, but the watercolour seems to dry over it much more visibly than india ink, so I wouldn't use it again unless it was a black only painting, but then i'd use the ph martin's black to get the blue hue! Earlier in this forum some people said they got past this by re-lining again at the end, but as it took me well over an hour to line all this with a dip pen, i'm definitely not going to make a habit out of that! Just bought a pot of dr ph martins HI-CARB india ink to try instead. I have started mixing greens with a drop of white acrylic to good effect after seeing a famous italian traditional tattooer mix his pigment this way. Thanks!
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