Thanks,
@Cyril Jayant - and also thanks for following along,
@Gary and
@Zivio and
@tiffany.c.a and
@Tasmith and everyone else who's been hitting the like button on all our posts!
@Aries M and
@AnasaziWrites have been terrific collaborators, and of course, none of this would be possible without
@Erica McPhee 24. One More Sleep (standard) - a medium blue-violet ink. no shimmer, no sheen. a little on the thin side, and not a great ink for calligraphy in any form. neon white reaction to bleach, and a sort of moody, etherial feel to the shading and chromatography that came out with robin's egg haloing in the swatch.
@AnasaziWrites was underwhelmed by this ink, for obvious reasons, but suggested that I might find some sort of art use for it. So here's my drawing - the paper and water saturation made all the difference in bringing out the chromatography. Also the application of salt produced nebula-like results! Mike - is this what you had mind?
Drawing depicts the astrophysicist, Dr. Katie Mack (b.1 May 1981) - a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute. And the author of
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), Scribner, 2020 - her work on the end & beginning of the universe, that gave me the thematic hook for "One More Sleep".
And now I only have one more ink to go!