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Illahie — The Celtic Panel - step 7
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Right. After everything is finally dry we now focus on the main subjects. I used water to thin the pigment powders on the wolves, and went for non-traditional coloring (as requested). I decided the black wolf to be on the left, since the line work that comes over the wolf there won't intervene with the fur pattern at all (since it's black)... but I hardly ever go for one solid color, so I did different shades of dark grey/black to not create a solid wolf-blob.The other wolf was to be a plain wolf, and because the line work goes underneath the body I had the chance to give it a good coloring without creating a confusing image.
NOTE: Metal pigments never scan well! Since the light of the scanner if focused directly onto the piece silver will look white, and gold will look yellowish (see the picture). To best capture the effect it is better to get a digital camera.
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Such a wonderful and interesting journey to follow all the steps from scratch, simply wonderful and so detailed the way you work and all materials used!! Thank you so very much for sharing I really loved this tut, and such a great inspiration. I'm all excited to get started on sketching now. Love the knot works, always have..some of them also reminds me so much of the scandinavian viking designs, and the runes..I'm fr Sweden..so those designs always had a special place in my heart!! Again Ingrid..thank you for taking the time, sharing!! I simply adore your works!!
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Thank you so much for your well constructed and wonderfully kind compliments! I really appreciate them!
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Always a pleasure to view your amazing art!!
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glad to have been of some inspiration
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I have done, i hope you have a look on my work with your help
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That looks fantastic! Well done!!
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Thanks! Hope it was of some help
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now THAT was the best tutorial i have ever seen 
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Great tutorial!
What brand is that metal pigment ink you use? And what kind of other inks do you use? ( ecoline?)
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For expensive commission such a wedding parchment gifts or heraldic styled paper I used Shell gold, which is gold (in poweder form) mixed with arabic gum. For the less expensive commission I use gold pigment ink, which contain less expensive metals in powder form mixed with gold tinted material, some brands use Peryte (fools gold).. no regular brands, most pigment are hand mixed.
As for Ecoline... I try to keep away from it. Ecoline is not 'light-hard', and within a month of sunlight the picture loses almost %50 of the colors.. so no Ecoline for me
I use inks that are mixed with with pure powder pigments. You can buy pigment powder in most art shops, but for some pigments you have to search all over the place. For the more simpler things I usually use Indian ink
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Kee,
sounds very well thought trough. ( eehhh not so good this sentence)
I will have a browse in my local ( not so well stocked) art shops. I would like to have a go at inks, I am not a happy camper with ecoline either and watercolor is not my cuppa T. So that leaves acrylic paints which I like, but for work on paper is not so fab.
I suppose working with ink you can't use a white for highlights but have to just thin down the colour yer using. Or use another medium when one wants a pure real white and not working on white paper?
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If you can't get the pigment powders, Staedtler makes a really great pen set that I use. They call them "pigment liners" and the come in a pack that has four tip sizes. That's what I use for all of my knotwork drawings. They're archival pigment inks, and waterproof on paper. (Though, if you make a small mistake, you can erase it very quickly with a mars eraser or kneaded eraser. They don't erase after they're dry.)
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