Winsor and Newton inks

[Calavera]

Hey all, I took a little trip downtown yesterday and grabbed a bottle of W&N Ink, Peat Brown. I wanted to try something else. But currently I\'m modelling so I haven\'t got to trying it.
So I wanted to know if anyone has using it. Have you ? What do you think of it ? et.c

But If you haven\'t, I\'ll get back at you and report how this stuff is

 

[provoke_me]

all this talk...

with all this tlk of winsor and newton brushes and stuff..i think its about time i head out to the art store again...

 

[rikyboy]

I bought some of the white ink for primarily glazing white areas to smooth out the blends. It works okay, but takes ages to dry! Definately don\'t use it neat! you\'ll be waiting days (literally) for it to dry out!lol

 

[Molebrain]

w&n inks

I have used W&N chestnut brown in the past, as the consistency is perfect. However, they tend to dry very shiny, and once you use them they sometimes flake a bit if you paint with a dilute mixture over top, they resaturate, creating a rough, jumbled mess.

Needless to say I stopped, but perhaps someone else has had a better experience.

Molebrain

 

[Mosch]

I use Windsor and Newton ink nearly exclusively and I like them. For washes I thin them down with 10 drops of homemade wash mixture to one brush of ink. As the ink is very strong, this will give good result, but then again I do dozens of layers when using inks.
For example my metal areas.... I first paint the whole area in a dark metal, then do about 15 to 20 passes of my black ink mixture, rehighlight, cover the whole metal in wash mixture and then use a little black ink straight from the bottle, mixing around on the mini. I once again rehighlight, then do one layer of lighter metal on the raised parts or cutting edges and then use a brown-black wash over the whole thing again. Rehighlight and repeat if necessary.

That does work nicely with the W&N inks, but not really the GW inks; no idea why, it seems to me that W&N have an even better pigmentation or is \"stronger\" in it\'s colour.