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I sold this some three years ago. It is in Brusho ink ( I think) Yesterday I received an e mail from a lovely lady who lives in Oxfordshire. she has been trying to track me down for the last few months and eventually did so via the sticker on the back of the frame of the guy who framed this for me. She had been bought it as a birthday present from a small eatery in Snowdonia where I had an exhibition.
I had been worrying about it as I have had one of my paintings in the same inks hung in quite a dark location on a bedroom wall. It has over the months started to vanish.
So I had wondered and worried about this one. Anyhow lovely lady found me , we had a nice conversation me being very abject and I offered he her money back.
But she wants me to paint it again for her instead, I am very happy to do this but really want to be happy about the inks I use. So anyone out there got positive proof and great confidence in a particular product ???? .
If you have please let me know.
I did try to upload the faded pic but my P C isn't allowing me to do so. Suffice to say it is a shadow of this one , almost ghost like....So Help please .
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I have always been suspicious of inks and their permanence. If it was me , I would paint the picture in acrylics Watercolour mode thinned down with water plus some acrylic medium added .. I like Brusho but regard it as a fun thing rather than something to use on a picture for sale. The moral is"be wary of false profits"like Brusho. Sorry Sylvia and good luck.Syd
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I've never used Brusho, but what I've heard of it (especially now!) warned me against it.
Acrylic inks should be lightfast - brusho isn't acrylic ink. Erebus is your man here, because he uses them, but I would suggest Liquitex, or FW inks - or, as Syd says, one of the acrylic paints; the more liquid ones in this case. Take a look through the Jackson's catalogue as well.
I have paintings much older than yours, painted with Chromacolour, Cryla, and Winsor and Newton Finity acrylic (now superseded by their Artists' acrylic) and there's no fading at all. You could also try gouache, PROVIDED always that it's a lightfast brand - some are, some certainly aren't, and some contain a mix of lightfast and fugitive colours. Frankly, I think anyone selling inks and paints that aren't lightfast these days doesn't deserve to stay in business. (I repeat though, I've not used Brusho, and you're not sure this is the product you used - so I withhold judgement and maybe they'd like to come back on this themselves.)
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http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/ink/223/top-tips-for-painting-with-ink
If I could have found a link from The Artist or Leisure Painter, I would have offered it: but I can't - perhaps Dawn can come to the rescue. The above article isn't especially brilliant, be it said (I hope that assuages any hurt feelings on the part of the editors of our own magazines..) but it does deal briefly with the advantages of acrylic inks.
I've looked up Brusho, and it's a children's product, for use in schools - it's not meant to be lightfast, and from what I've seen people saying, it sure isn't!
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Yes, I can see from your painting that it produces great results - such a pity that it's not lightfast, but powder paints never were: I knew an artist who produced beautiful paintings in poster paint and gouache, he mounted and framed them behind glass, and we showed them for him in the shop I then worked in (50 years ago, nearly, this is!). Whatever we did, we couldn't protect them - they faded by the day, it seemed. I don't know if UV protection would have made much difference, the paints just weren't up to the job.
I wonder if there's any mileage in painting your picture using your favoured medium, but then keeping it in a folder and producing giclée prints from it - selling those, not the original? That way, if you can find a printer who uses lightfast inks .... but then, are any non acrylic inks lightfast........ Anyway: it's a thought, because you could still produce prints, presumably, from the image you've shared here?
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Erebus - you are quite right but being an awkward Englishman can I continue to spell it with a 'u' ? - bring back fairy cakes and abolish cup cakes I say! Sylvia - I got my last lot from Curtis Ward and had excellent service - you might want to give them a try at: https://www.curtisward.com/Magic_Color_Acrylic_Ink_28ml__p-104.aspx
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Well what fun and excitment. Just had an e mail from a lady in P O L s office...Deborah and guess what. This post re my vanishing inks is being published in the February edition of one of the mags ...sorry not sure which. So because I am STAR letter .... oooooh I get a prize , some watercolours. How lovely.
What I am doing and am in the process of at the moment, is re doing the whole thing in acrylics . Also I have ordered an A 2 photograph in semi gloss for her and one for me. So despite all the good advice from you lot and other people I am playing safe with what I know will not fade to nothingness in a few years time.