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I have now bought twelve acrylic ink colours and I am starting on my first painting using some of these . The first six inks I bought as an introductory set which contained the following ....Cyan ( blue) , sepia , emerald green,process magenta, lemon yellow and scarlet..
I thought the first named four would put anyone off this medium and I know Tim fisher has done some nice stuff with the Six Set of colours but I dont like four of them .Can anyone who paints in this new to me medium give me an idea of useful colours more like the usual acrylic colours I am used to working with. I have seen some videos on utube which are of no use to anyone beyond dropping one paint into another and watching it mix and that sort of mindless activity which sums up the rest......Syd
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That's a ghastly range of colours Syd, two of them being process colours for printing and as with most sets that awful green always appears. I work a lot with acrylic inks as you may well be aware, I'll have a look at what I've got in my selection and let you know but I do have some really useful landscape colours in my collection. It will be tomorrow now as i'm off out shortly, I do know that most of them are from the FW range which I find excellent.
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by alanbickley
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Alan is quite right about ghastly colours in acrylic ink but it does depend on what you are using them for. I use them including the 'ghastly' colours for my abstracts where they come into their own but I wouldn't dream of using them for, say, landscapes. I also use FW among others and find them great - I will be interested to see Alan's list tomorrow.
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Well just having a scour through my box of inks I do have a few other makes but in the main most are the W&N FW range, and we will probably agree that they are amongst the best available.
So for Syd, Michael and Sandra and anyone else who may be interested this is what I have and I paint mainly landscapes with them. I do mix my colours of course and they do have that all important dropper on the cap.
Raw Sienna - Burnt Sienna - Sepia - Brilliant Yellow - Indian Yellow - Dark Green 326 - Indigo - Marine Blue - Prussian Blue - Paynes Grey - Flame Red - Red Earth (this is a must).
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Thanks for your kind words about my abstracts Sandra - much appreciated and pleased you like them
Alan - an interesting list and haven't tried red earth so will add to my next order.
Apart from Daler Rowney (FW) acrylic inks I also use Liquitex and Magic Color . The latter is a cheaper option and in my experience an equally good alternative - the cheapest supplier I have found being Cutis Ward who have given me excellent service. They all have a dropper in the cap to which Alan refers but I also keep a supply of pipettes for use with them and, more importantly, for use with the various mediums I use (granulation fluid, gum arabic, fluorescent medium, etcetera) which don't come with a dropper. Having worked in health care I still have a supply of pipettes but they are cheap as chips to buy on line. I see you can get them from Amazon at £3.95 for a pack of 100 - much cheaper than the Art Suppliers.