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Published: 2018-04-17 16:33:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 276; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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I almost never paint landscapes (or at least not landscapes without giant mushrooms or weird ruins in them...). But I wanted to let go a bit more when I paint and just let the colors flow as they please. And so this happened.Related content
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One of the best I've ever seen, Great Work!("Ink" made landscape)
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Oh wow, this is gorgeous! What kind of paint you used?
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Thanks a lot! I did this with Derwent's Inktense pencils. They are water-soluble and are basically like inksticks in the shape of pencils. As the name suggests, you can get some really intense colors out of them.
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Yeah. The colors look like paint drenched in water. It looks really nice. I wonder if I can get them where I live. I'm still new to this site and I want to try as many styles as I can
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Yeah, I used more water than usual this time. I wanted to see how these colors would behave with more classical techniques like wet-on-wet. It's easy to forget that this is in fact ink and not watercolors, so it behaves a bit differently.
Hope you can find them! They're great fun to experiment with. And if you do find them and need any help you can always ask.
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Don't worry, I can simply improvise with what I have. I usually take time between drawings because I want them to be good so I take breaks. Great technique there. One would easily confuse them with watercolors
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Yeah, the big difference from watercolors is that these dry within seconds and then are permanent.
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So you can't afford any mistakes. That makes it complicated
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Well it's still a pretty transparent ink, so you can still work around any mistake in different ways. Like here where I used other colored pencils to add highlights after the paint was all dry.
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The transparency might be of help. I should have to use a thick paper though. I'm sometimes not convinced with my own work so I make a lot of correction, and one time, I was really close on damaging the paper and ruining everything 
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Yeah I use watercolor paper mostly. I'm always unsure of my own work too. That's kind of what I like with these, because they sometimes force you to work around your own mistakes and just accept them. Like in this painting I did where I messed up quite a bit but was able to turn my mistakes into a part of the background, ultimately making the painting better than it had been if I hadn't messed up in the first place.
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That's really nice. You can barely see the mistakes at all. You're right, they do inspire you to make something even better than you originally planned
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Being forced to work fast and just work around your own mistakes - these pencils are a great exercise for your artistic confidence!
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I suppose. There's still a lot of terrain I have to explore.
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