INKS AND THE SUBTLE MONOCHROME
Painting with India ink is like painting - or drawing - with your signature. Its spontaneity is even greater than that of watercolors, which pass through the color filter.
From the dense graphics to the subtlety of the watercolors, strokes, hatches accumulate density, texture and form in the work. Huge black stains contrast with what is attenuated by transparent watercolors...
I've been painting with ink since childhood, in fact I always used all kinds of materials at a very young age, but I used ink in greater abundance, in larger quantities.
For comics, studies, finished works, using nibs, pens and brushes.
What promotes the art of ink painting, his own experimentation with freedom, is its almost tenuous connection to drawing, which brings it closer to the artist's self, since drawing is man's oldest language.
When you draw, with a pen or quill, grooves, hatches, strokes in short, accumulating on the support to the point of seeing a web of signatures, you are at the core of drawing, and even engraving, if you consider its very essence of graphism. When we use a brush and try to study the tones of nature and its objects revealed to us, producing so-called watercolors, we are already in the waters of painting, but under its monochromes...
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