INKS and Shiny things

Screenprinting inks vary. 

Speedball produces a water based acrylic ink in where its quite opaque but does not need modifiers out of the jar. But to create lighter or darker colors with transparancy- add a base modifier.  They also produce a textile ink that is also water based. 

jacquard produces a comperable ink as well, but they have an expanded specialty of metalic and pearlescent colors in ink and powder. 

Powders can be applied ontop of wet ink as another layer or mixed into the ink to change the ink color.

Always add base to INK to make it transparent versus adding white which ends up being very opaque. 

1 year ago