I will be compiling all the test results from my previous blog, Playing with INKS, and grouping it together in a way that makes sense. This is the forth RESULTS-blog on Moving Ink.
Just to refresh your memory, I tested the following inks:
I tested the following inks later. I am including their results in the results blogs, but it will not appear in the downloadable results table. (Please add it in manually if you want it all together.)
Wendy Vecchi Make Art Bledable Dye Ink (Ranger)
Memento Luxe Ink (Tsukineko)
Stazon Pigment Ink (Tuskineko)
Artistry Ink (Shilpi)
In this RESULTS-blog I would like to discuss my findings with regards to the “movability” properties of the inks I tested:
- Can I use it to chalk around the edges of a page or element?
- Can I blend with it?
- Will I be able to use it with a stencil?
Can I use it to chalk around the edges of a page or element?
I could use all the inks, except for StazOn ink, to chalk around page edges. Chalking around a page edge or an embellishment can be just what you need to finish off a project:
Can I blend with it?
I had some variable results with this test. The liquid inks (the 2 All-Purpose inks and the 2 Alcohol inks) did not really move on the paper. It was more a case of being smeared.
I found that Archival ink and VersaFine ink dries rather quickly and when trying to blend with these I had some success, but the blending wasn’t smooth. I won’t recommend these two inks for ink blending.
StazOn ink dry really quickly and no blending was possible.
StazOn Pigment ink does not dry as fast as StazOn ink and I was able to blend with it, although it was not very smooth:
All the other inks performed well when used to blend with:
Will I be able to use it with a stencil?
Yet again the StazOn ink dried too quickly to be used for stenciling.
The liquid inks (the 2 All-Purpose inks and the 2 Alcohol inks) were too wet and seeped in underneath the stencils. If you don’t want perfect stenciling, you could still use these inks to stencil.
All the other inks performed well in this test:
This was all the results related to the “movability” properties of the tested inks.
Keep this in mind when you play with your inks!
This concludes the series of 4 RESULTS blogs for this set of tests (see Playing with INKS for the tests we did)
This is my completed table of results:
The completed table can be downloaded here:
The blank table can be downloaded here:
Thanks for playing along!
My next series of blogs will be looking at the properties of each specific ink individually. Join me for some interesting discoveries!
PLEASE NOTE: All the opinions are my own. None of the products have been sponsored.