![]() Of the current crop, Angelus is the best, with Tarrago close behind. Fiebing's and Kelly's aren't that good these days (and one is distinctly reddish while the other has a greenish cast) Kiwi was never any good in the first place. Leather finishes (topcoats, anyway) are in some respects a little like some guitar finishes: they use MEK and acetone as solvents, but they aren't as nasty (consumer versions, anyway) as they were back in the 80s and before. All of them except Kiwi used to use 1,1,1 trichloroethane as a solvent none do today, AFAIK. I was going to mention leather dye, but the same environmental regulations that have led some manufacturers to discontinue or change the formulas of their inks have made some leather dyes much less effective than they used to be. I only use the inks with shellac if I'm going to go over them with a water-based white. Drawings in glossy ink also don't scan or photograph as well. It will destroy a fine red sable brush pretty quickly, and clog a pen nib. That's important to me because I don't want any shellac in my ink unless I'm filling in large areas of black. Speedball hasn't changed in decades.Īs I said above, the two inks that have the greatest amount of shellac are Winsor & Newton and Sennelier. I suspect that the first video above was made before 2014-16 or so. You could also try artists' oils thinned with Japan/Cobalt driers. Japanese-made Platinum Carbon is close to the original FW, but has no ammonia.) The Current Daler-Rowney product is the pretender to the throne. (Steig Products FW Ink, which bore the slogan "The Problem of Clogging Technical Pens Is Solved!" was the original. A couple of years later, they brought back the name, but the new formula was totally different and was utter crap. I searched for the perfect India ink for many years, and finally found it in the early 90s. Most of the best inks and paints are toxic to some degree, and every time the formulas change to make the state of California happy, they're less effective. I suspect that EU environmental regulations have made most inks worse that's what happened here. I'd actually be overjoyed to hear what you can find there besides those brands. In Germany, Staedler should be readily available, but it has no shellac AFAIK Pelikan is fantastic, used a lot in tattooing, no longer in US stores but may still be found there (green, white, and yellow labels are all different, and they make a fountain pen version which you should avoid), and Rötring/Koh-I-Noor (three versions with different drying times) is great but has absolutely no shellac. With most of 'em, they're less waterproof if you mix 'em with water. I think it would be hard to get an even coat of India ink that isn't splotchy unless you go for full saturation. Some results are predictable, some a bit less so. You're doing the right thing by experimenting this way first. ![]() But, and this is a big but, oil over lacquer is a no-go. It'll go solid black if you spray opaque black, but you could try a translucent black and go slowly.
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