Dipping ink 17 ml - Nightshade Purple Dip

Dipping ink 17 ml Nightshade Purple Dip (Green Stuff World)

A semi-transparent acrylic ink from the Dipping ink range. It is applied over a light base and in one step creates both color and shadow: the pigment runs down into the recesses and folds, while only a thin film stays on the raised areas. That turns what is normally slow shading into a single stroke of the brush. The package has a volume of 17 milliliters. The range is built for quick painting, so it makes most sense where several figures have to be managed at once.

Nightshade purple

A dark cool purple. Over a light base it gives surfaces a cool, somber tone, and in the recesses it shifts almost to black-purple. It is used on night scenes, dark cloaks and for shading gray and blue fabrics, to which it gives depth without graying them out.

Use

• Applied over a white or light base, as only then does the shade come through
• Load the brush fully and draw off the excess so that no pools form
• Let the ink run into the recesses by itself; do not push it there with the brush
• As a shading layer over an already painted surface it works thinned with water by about half
• Once dry, the surfaces can be lightened with opaque paint and the details picked out
• Thinned with water the ink becomes a finer shading glaze

Safety note

Work in a well-ventilated room, especially if you spray the ink with an airbrush. Avoid contact with the eyes and the skin, keep it out of the reach of children and close the bottle carefully after use. Dried ink is hard to remove from textiles, so protect your clothing and your work surface.