Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!
Discover a world filled with vibrant color and creative possibilities as you explore an array of painting, drawing, printing, and lettering techniques and styles using vivid colors of artist’s ink.

In Brilliant Inks, artist, illustrator, and top Skillshare teacher Anna Sokolova shares her own unique methods that get the most out of this versatile medium. With her guidance, create beginner-friendly florals and foliage, animals, still lifes, figures and portraits, and hand lettering.

Learn about the various types of inks and the best tools and surfaces to use with them. Then, try basic techniques such as color mixing, creating visual texture, negative painting, and splattering.

Work with a variety of brushes, dip pens, and droppers to get different looks, and see how adding common household supplies such as salt and bleach can create the most amazing effects.

Use these methods in lessons designed to improve skills and boost confidence. Be inspired to make projects such as a bracelet, paper art dolls, a tote bag, and a decorated book. Full instructions and templates make projects fun and stress free.

This incredible material offers so much that’s waiting to be discovered:
  • Vivid monotypes made in minutes using a combination of painting and printmaking methods
  • Custom palettes created with unique blended colors
  • Watercolor-like translucent washes and opaque silhouettes
  • Techniques for creating beautiful motifs using simple brushstrokes and patterns.
Begin your colorful journey today with Brilliant Inks and see how far your creativity can go!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.
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Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!
Discover a world filled with vibrant color and creative possibilities as you explore an array of painting, drawing, printing, and lettering techniques and styles using vivid colors of artist’s ink.

In Brilliant Inks, artist, illustrator, and top Skillshare teacher Anna Sokolova shares her own unique methods that get the most out of this versatile medium. With her guidance, create beginner-friendly florals and foliage, animals, still lifes, figures and portraits, and hand lettering.

Learn about the various types of inks and the best tools and surfaces to use with them. Then, try basic techniques such as color mixing, creating visual texture, negative painting, and splattering.

Work with a variety of brushes, dip pens, and droppers to get different looks, and see how adding common household supplies such as salt and bleach can create the most amazing effects.

Use these methods in lessons designed to improve skills and boost confidence. Be inspired to make projects such as a bracelet, paper art dolls, a tote bag, and a decorated book. Full instructions and templates make projects fun and stress free.

This incredible material offers so much that’s waiting to be discovered:
  • Vivid monotypes made in minutes using a combination of painting and printmaking methods
  • Custom palettes created with unique blended colors
  • Watercolor-like translucent washes and opaque silhouettes
  • Techniques for creating beautiful motifs using simple brushstrokes and patterns.
Begin your colorful journey today with Brilliant Inks and see how far your creativity can go!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.
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Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!

Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!

by Anna Sokolova
Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!

Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!

by Anna Sokolova

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Overview

Discover a world filled with vibrant color and creative possibilities as you explore an array of painting, drawing, printing, and lettering techniques and styles using vivid colors of artist’s ink.

In Brilliant Inks, artist, illustrator, and top Skillshare teacher Anna Sokolova shares her own unique methods that get the most out of this versatile medium. With her guidance, create beginner-friendly florals and foliage, animals, still lifes, figures and portraits, and hand lettering.

Learn about the various types of inks and the best tools and surfaces to use with them. Then, try basic techniques such as color mixing, creating visual texture, negative painting, and splattering.

Work with a variety of brushes, dip pens, and droppers to get different looks, and see how adding common household supplies such as salt and bleach can create the most amazing effects.

Use these methods in lessons designed to improve skills and boost confidence. Be inspired to make projects such as a bracelet, paper art dolls, a tote bag, and a decorated book. Full instructions and templates make projects fun and stress free.

This incredible material offers so much that’s waiting to be discovered:
  • Vivid monotypes made in minutes using a combination of painting and printmaking methods
  • Custom palettes created with unique blended colors
  • Watercolor-like translucent washes and opaque silhouettes
  • Techniques for creating beautiful motifs using simple brushstrokes and patterns.
Begin your colorful journey today with Brilliant Inks and see how far your creativity can go!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760374511
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 07/05/2022
Series: Art for Modern Makers Series , #7
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 8.55(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Anna Sokolova is an illustrator, teacher, and contemporary artist who loves combining traditional and innovative approaches in art. Her work is featured in museums and private collections in Russia, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and the US. She is a top teacher on Skillshare, with several classes in creating with ink that feature her own techniques. She has collaborated with companies such as Tombow, Wired magazine, and Maison Margiela, among others.

Born and raised in Russia, Anna graduated from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. She has received numerous awards, including the World Illustration Award for her signature Delft Blue series for Netflix. In 2020 she received a Highly Commended honor from the World Illustration Awards. She won a silver medal in 2021 in the surface/product design category in the Society of Illustrators 64th Annual for her collaboration with Maison Margiela on “Artisanal Collection.”

Anna lives in Berlin, Germany.
 
Instagram: @annasokolovaartist
Website: annasokolova.eu

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

1 All Things Colored Ink 11

Learn about the range of choices in inks, brushes, paper, and pens.

2 Basic Techniques and Beyond 23

Discover techniques celebrating ink's unique properties: washes, gradients, wet-on-wet, negative painting, spatter effects, ink droppers, monotypes, and more.

3 Florals and Nature 51

Get inspired by nature and paint mushrooms, flowers, leaves, and a botanical mandala.

4 Animals and Birds 67

Explore the magical world of butterflies, birds, and red pandas.

5 Figures, Portraits, and Fashion 77

Expand your creativity by painting simple figures, a portrait, and fashion motifs.

6 Still Life 93

Put a unique spin on painting with your imagination and create a map, a pomegranate, and a plated dessert.

7 Projects 105

Experiment with new ways of applying colored inks on cork, clay, and fabric. Be inspired to create a fantastic accordion silhouette book, paper dolls, and more.

Templates 122

Resources 125

Acknowledgments 126

About the Author 127

Index 128

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