Enjoyed seeing your ink comparison experiment, very informative. TFS!! I was first taught to clean up conventional inks such as Intaglio with solvents ... but afterwards was taught to use the cheapest vegetable oil I could find and finally go over with soap and water to break up the vegetable oil. Has worked well. To soften conventional inks I was taught to use a drop or 2 of printmaker's burnt linseed oil or Gamblin's Easy Wipe gel . I also use the Akua inks as well. Akua soft inks used with conventional firm inks are great for viscosity printing. Love to see your process and works!
Thank you 🙏 That’s so interesting what you said about mixing conventional inks with akua for viscosity printing, I can see why that would work. I must give it a try!
Hi. Have you tried Hawthorne oil based inks, they clean up super good with their Lincoln wash. This is a Hydrocarbon solvent that is miscible with water. so you can finish cleaning rollers with a damp cloth and it is less toxic than white spirit and it doesn't smell. Thank you so much for your great videos, I have widened my printmaking approach following your channel.
@@chrisriddles9460 thank you and no I never used hawthorn inks but I ordered them for a workshop I will soon be doing as I heard they are really good.👍
My foray into Akua ink was a disaster! Like you, I wanted to avoid having to use solvents, so being able to clean up with soap and water seemed like a perfect option - UNTIL I tried them. #1 I was doing a project for a class I was teaching and the Akua ink NEVER dried despite me leaving it in a warm room for several days, then resorting to putting the prints in my car for 2 weeks when the outside temperature was over 105 degrees F. BTW, my car was parked in the SUN!!! so I'm guessing the internal temperature was probably close to 150 degrees. #2 When I touched the prints after days indoors and 2 weeks in my car, my fingers picked up the ink and I got fingerprints on my prints. #3 Then, I attempted to color my prints using watercolor. Because Akua is water soluble, the ink dissolved and made a muddy mess of the few remaining prints that hadn't been destroyed by fingerprints. NEVER AGAIN!!! I'm now happily using Caligio Safe Wash.
Hi Marta. I switched to Akua from oil based inks quite a while ago. I was concerned about my own health as well as that of the environment. Akua have some great vlogs on TH-cam, if you haven’t already seen them. Also a free product use booklet on their website. It was great to see a side by side (-: Marion ❤
this may sound stalky but is that a print of red roots in your bin? (i have been trying to print roots on the the gelli plate (now im going to ink some up and go through my tiny press
@@CollagraphPrinting yes it looked beautiful and thats why my eyes were drawn to it. thank you so much for your videos. i am so inspired to print again!
I am trying to understand the difference between printmaking inks. For example I have used Speedball Professional Relief Inks for Lino cuts (Oil Based inks) works so so and gets hard but thinking about trying the colligraph techniques but unsure if I should keep on using this for the colligraphs or change over to the intaglio inks. What is the difference and is one (relief inks vs intaglio) more suited to a certain process colligraph vs relief printing than the other and if so why?
Good question. Etching Inks tend to be looser and less tacky, so they can print better for the intaglio technique. I Wouk use either for both techniques but check the consistency. So if you want to print relief plate with etching ink, you can use various stiffeners like magi mix for akua or even just a bit of chalk powder. To loosen inks you can use refines linseed oil. Hope this helps
Are you using various ratios of mercacious with mediums to change ‘values’ on your plates? I have not tried mercacious oxide; but am beginning playing with carborundum and some other pastes and gels!
Not this video but you are absolutely right, you can mix micasious iron oxide with acrylic mediums to change its value. carborundum is a great way to get dark tones too
Greetings. Try Cranfield Inks. They are made to wash up with dish soap and water. Great consistency. I also use the Akua. Pronounced Ah-koo-Ah
Thank you. Good to know there’s another brand out there!
Enjoyed seeing your ink comparison experiment, very informative. TFS!!
I was first taught to clean up conventional inks such as Intaglio with solvents ... but afterwards was taught to use the cheapest vegetable oil I could find and finally go over with soap and water to break up the vegetable oil. Has worked well. To soften conventional inks I was taught to use a drop or 2 of printmaker's burnt linseed oil or Gamblin's Easy Wipe gel . I also use the Akua inks as well. Akua soft inks used with conventional firm inks are great for viscosity printing. Love to see your process and works!
Thank you 🙏 That’s so interesting what you said about mixing conventional inks with akua for viscosity printing, I can see why that would work. I must give it a try!
Intaglio can be cleaned off with vegetable oil.
Hi. Have you tried Hawthorne oil based inks, they clean up super good with their Lincoln wash. This is a Hydrocarbon solvent that is miscible with water. so you can finish cleaning rollers with a damp cloth and it is less toxic than white spirit and it doesn't smell. Thank you so much for your great videos, I have widened my printmaking approach following your channel.
@@chrisriddles9460 thank you and no I never used hawthorn inks but I ordered them for a workshop I will soon be doing as I heard they are really good.👍
My foray into Akua ink was a disaster! Like you, I wanted to avoid having to use solvents, so being able to clean up with soap and water seemed like a perfect option - UNTIL I tried them. #1 I was doing a project for a class I was teaching and the Akua ink NEVER dried despite me leaving it in a warm room for several days, then resorting to putting the prints in my car for 2 weeks when the outside temperature was over 105 degrees F. BTW, my car was parked in the SUN!!! so I'm guessing the internal temperature was probably close to 150 degrees. #2 When I touched the prints after days indoors and 2 weeks in my car, my fingers picked up the ink and I got fingerprints on my prints. #3 Then, I attempted to color my prints using watercolor. Because Akua is water soluble, the ink dissolved and made a muddy mess of the few remaining prints that hadn't been destroyed by fingerprints. NEVER AGAIN!!! I'm now happily using Caligio Safe Wash.
Oh no what a shame! I am still using Akua, I only had a problem with the black. Do you intaglio or relief print?
Hi Marta. I switched to Akua from oil based inks quite a while ago. I was concerned about my own health as well as that of the environment. Akua have some great vlogs on TH-cam, if you haven’t already seen them. Also a free product use booklet on their website. It was great to see a side by side (-: Marion ❤
Thank you Marion, yes they have a great TH-cam channel. I’m really enjoying using them!
this may sound stalky but is that a print of red roots in your bin? (i have been trying to print roots on the the gelli plate (now im going to ink some up and go through my tiny press
@@JT-mq6oc ha ha no it’s a monoprint I took off a plant I inked up with a roller! It’s really cool and I used it loads as collage paper
@@CollagraphPrinting yes it looked beautiful and thats why my eyes were drawn to it. thank you so much for your videos. i am so inspired to print again!
I am trying to understand the difference between printmaking inks. For example I have used Speedball Professional Relief Inks for Lino cuts (Oil Based inks) works so so and gets hard but thinking about trying the colligraph techniques but unsure if I should keep on using this for the colligraphs or change over to the intaglio inks. What is the difference and is one (relief inks vs intaglio) more suited to a certain process colligraph vs relief printing than the other and if so why?
Good question. Etching Inks tend to be looser and less tacky, so they can print better for the intaglio technique. I Wouk use either for both techniques but check the consistency. So if you want to print relief plate with etching ink, you can use various stiffeners like magi mix for akua or even just a bit of chalk powder. To loosen inks you can use refines linseed oil. Hope this helps
Are you using various ratios of mercacious with mediums to change ‘values’ on your plates? I have not tried mercacious oxide; but am beginning playing with carborundum and some other pastes and gels!
Not this video but you are absolutely right, you can mix micasious iron oxide with acrylic mediums to change its value. carborundum is a great way to get dark tones too