Mixing Ziller Inks
One day I needed to mix the Ziller Inks to match a
shade of green.
I didn't want to mix a large amount and I wasn't
sure which colors I needed to mix to match the
green.
I looked around my office and couldn't find any
containers small enough.
As I sat at my desk and tried to come up with a
solution to my problem, I saw a pile of
paperclips.
After bending the paper clip (see above) I dipped
the paper clip into the Sweet Grass Green Ziller
Ink. I put a little ink on the underside of my
pointed pen nib and then added another color with
another paper clip and mixed the ink on the nib.
Sometimes I just added water to thin the color or
make the ink flow from the nib better.
In a short time I mixed many shades of green. I
found that I could put one paper clip in each color
and use them to drop a small amount of ink on the
nib. I used one paper clip for mixing the color on
the nib and one to add water to the color on the
nib to thin the color or make the ink letter
better.
Here are several of my sheets that I created one day.
Here are several of my sheets that I created one day.
Then I tried various shades of blue mixing Midnight
Blue with combinations using North Wind White, Wild
Viola Violet, Sweet Grass Green and Cardinal Red.
I wrote in pencil the combinations so I would remember how to do it when I needed that color again.
I wrote in pencil the combinations so I would remember how to do it when I needed that color again.
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Here are various shades of violet using
combinations of Wild Viola Violet, North Wind
White, Cardinal Red and Midnight Blue.
Not all combinations used Wild Viola Violet but all combinations used North Wind White.
Not all combinations used Wild Viola Violet but all combinations used North Wind White.
Here are various colors using a combination of
Sunflower Yellow, Cardinal Red, Buffalo Brown, and
North Wind White.
These pieces are not final pieces but just playing around quickly with the colors.
I copied short sayings and tried to created as many colors as I could on a sheet of paper.
This is a good way to mix North Wind White and Sunflower Yellow with other colors and transfer other colors into these colors.
Also the clean up is easy
These pieces are not final pieces but just playing around quickly with the colors.
I copied short sayings and tried to created as many colors as I could on a sheet of paper.
This is a good way to mix North Wind White and Sunflower Yellow with other colors and transfer other colors into these colors.
Also the clean up is easy
You can dip your nib into the various colors if you
have small containers.
In this one I dipped the nib into various colors. It is harder to see the slight changes of color.
Once you know how to mix the color in very small quantities on your pen nib, then you can mix a larger batch in a jar using the same proportions.
In this one I dipped the nib into various colors. It is harder to see the slight changes of color.
Once you know how to mix the color in very small quantities on your pen nib, then you can mix a larger batch in a jar using the same proportions.
This example is using a mixture of North Wind White
and Soot Black with water, Sunflower Yellow,
Midnight Blue or Cardinal Red to produce shades of
grey.
By mixing these colors, you have a sample to show a client some of the colors you can use for their job.
By mixing these colors, you have a sample to show a client some of the colors you can use for their job.
