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[blockquote]In any case, other than acrylic paint, other’s on the forum have used various items. Watercolor, colored pencil, etc. I personally like to use pastels.[/blockquote]
Watercolors you say? I’ve been hesitant to get a PYO because I am a nightmare with acrylics (I probably need to get a better grade), but I have heavily pigmented gansai tambi watercolors that so far seem to be quite lightfast (as well as watercolor pencils that are also supposed to be lightfast) so now I’ll have to take that into consideration. (Only snafu is going to be finding a top coat I can apply indoors with no designated crafting space. Too humid for most of the year to have a spray set right.) It may simply be time to make the leap and play.
(And you are correct – alcohol inks by their nature are not lightfast, though I would assume given the right top coat applied quickly enough that MIGHT help? Never talked to anyone who tried that however.)
As for the brushed-on pastels method, you can do this on top of paint to get more subtle shading too. I’ve done it on sculptures in the past and it definitely improved the look versus flat acrylic if you, like me, are not especially skilled at getting nice blends with acrylic paints.
