You’re welcome Teri. My wife is an artist so I get lots of help from her and I appreciate it when she points out things that don’t look correct to her. Keep up the good work and pushing yourself. That’s another thing I have to do. Don’t say it’s too hard just go for it. It’s just paper (or canvas) and medium. 
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I love the sense of depth you gave. That is really difficult in a night painting. The skyline with buildings is very subtle but contributes a lot to the atmosphere. If you were to treat it as a painting rather than a card, it would be interesting to see what a dark mat and frame would do.
Thank you, Jane.
This project was really fun to do. I am actually considering creating it again a little larger, not much, as an ink painting. If I do, I will post it here.
Teri
Teri:
I have been painting with alcohol inks. It’s a bit like herding really fast cats, or butterflies. The joy is that when you do get it to look like a landscape it is really satisfying. Do acrylic inks work that way or do they stay put? What kind of paper are you using? I use Yupo for the alcohol inks.
Hello Jane,
The acrylic inks dry fast, are very forgiving so if you don’t like something in just a few minutes you can paint over it, but at the same time you can blend them on the paper. You can also water them down and create washes with them. I actually at times combine them with Indian inks and it works great. I just purchased some Staedtler watercolor pens with a fine .03 tip and they work well with the other inks I use. You can use the bottle inks with nib pens too.
I generally work on Strathmore 400 series paper Artagain or their 400 series Multipurpose paper. I have used the multipurpose paper for years with colored pencils, graphite, inks, etc. It has a lot of tooth.
I would enjoy seeing some of your ink artwork.
Teri
Teri:
I have tried, once, to post and it didn’t do it. I have an account because I get notices, but it didn’t accept a post. Will try again. I had a great time doing one of Matt’s birds in colored pencil. Wound up doing 4 altogether, three on my own. His lessons are really good. No matter how long you’ve been painting, there is always something to be learned. However, after several months of colored pencil and having my nose down on the paper, I needed to do something a bit looser. So, the alcohol inks. It is definitely trying to herd butterflies.
Another artist and I have a mini show of alcohol inks going right now.
I will go take pictures.
Jane
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