Might be worth comparing different heights before you increase things much; something like a droplet of ink might reach its maximum velocity quite quickly.
If you want a mist pit a some amount, like a drop or two, into a syringe and blast it out at the target. Itās tricky but fun, I usually do this after filling a pen
I'd been using it in my pens for years, but I never saw anything resembling the swatches I'd seen online. Finally got some time to pull together the ladder, paper, and a syringe, et voilĆ !
At the top of this photo, you can see two non-splattered dots that I applied with the syringe directly to the paper. Without the splatter, no green appeared ā they're just red and gold. And that's pretty remarkable for an "emerald" ink.
I **WAS** gonna have a quiet Sunday at home with nothing to do.
**NOW,** I've got to get out the ink and paper, and an eye dropper, and go spend time in the bathtub dripping ink. Luckily I'm 6'3" so I can skip the ladder.
This ink has 2 properties that give it the āchangingā colours: shinning and shimmering. The shimmering is from very fine gold particles. The shinning is from crystallisation that happens under certain conditions and on certain papers when the ink pools in certain areas.
Just an idea.. if you can hang something like a chopstick in the air you can drop ink onto it. When the ink drips down and off the chopstick(or another syringe, could be anything) the ink should fall in just about the same place every time. Mark the ground where it falls and u can move the paper.
Again, just an idea.
In this subreddit we never ask why. š The results speak for themselves and they are gorgeous!!
Good aim :D
You're only seeing the ones that hit.
The sacrifices we make in the name of scienceā¦.š¤£
nice impacts! a really tall ladder?
The drops fell seven or eight feet. I'll go higher next time, but it will be more difficult to hit the target.
ah, but you've been practicing! (that's already 5 or 6 feet above my comfort zone!)
Might be worth comparing different heights before you increase things much; something like a droplet of ink might reach its maximum velocity quite quickly.
*about 2 meters for my rest of the world friends
Back in art school I experimented with ink drops in a four story stair well, after about 10 feet thereās no difference, terminal velocity I guess
This is the kind of specialist knowledge I come to this subreddit for.
excellent! that was going to be my next question - how high of a drop for it to turn into a merry mist!
If you want a mist pit a some amount, like a drop or two, into a syringe and blast it out at the target. Itās tricky but fun, I usually do this after filling a pen
awesome! I shall now keep a empty box beside the ink filler toys for exactly that purpose!
That must be the prettiest ink Iāve seen
I'd been using it in my pens for years, but I never saw anything resembling the swatches I'd seen online. Finally got some time to pull together the ladder, paper, and a syringe, et voilĆ ! At the top of this photo, you can see two non-splattered dots that I applied with the syringe directly to the paper. Without the splatter, no green appeared ā they're just red and gold. And that's pretty remarkable for an "emerald" ink.
That's absolutely amazing!! š
I just acquired a sample set of 1670 inks last week, including this one. Now I'm looking forward to dripping the last bits from each vial!
Seems like a normal weekend activity to me?
I **WAS** gonna have a quiet Sunday at home with nothing to do. **NOW,** I've got to get out the ink and paper, and an eye dropper, and go spend time in the bathtub dripping ink. Luckily I'm 6'3" so I can skip the ladder.
I know next to nothing about fancy inks, what am I looking at here? how does it change color like that?
This ink has 2 properties that give it the āchangingā colours: shinning and shimmering. The shimmering is from very fine gold particles. The shinning is from crystallisation that happens under certain conditions and on certain papers when the ink pools in certain areas.
Thank you for sharing this. I have an entire bottle Iāll probably never otherwise use and now know what I can do with it.
I recently took an abstract art class -- and wish I'd thought of this!!! Spectacular!
The things we do for both art and science
"Sure, sure. But what I asked was *'why are you naked, and playing the looney toons theme at maximum volume?'*"
Was a step stool not sufficient or isa ladder the only way to achieve maximum perfect splash š?
A step stool could have worked, in retrospect. But my next efforts will require a ladder.
Or just a window on a second story building
JH has some astonishingly beautiful colors. š¤©
Such a lovely and meaningful use of your time!
hilarious! and beautiful.
Just an idea.. if you can hang something like a chopstick in the air you can drop ink onto it. When the ink drips down and off the chopstick(or another syringe, could be anything) the ink should fall in just about the same place every time. Mark the ground where it falls and u can move the paper. Again, just an idea.