Since liquid medias are so fluid, they can also be applied with a brush. Most of the works, during the Renaissance, were done with iron-fall ink, which was made from a gall, a swelling on an oak tree caused by diseases. The ink at first application was black, sometimes the ink was brown, but as time goes by and the art ages, the ink slowly turns into a brownish color, or the lines will fade.”(p.173) Back in this era, it was very common for artists to use a quill pen to dip into their ink when writing or drawing. “The quill pen was often made from geese or swan feathers, which allowed for a far greater variation of line and texture in drawings than is that of a metalpoint stylus.” For this media I choose Elisabetta Sirani, The Holy Family with a Kneeling Monastic Saint, ca. 1660., private collection.(p.173) Technically, this art work would be considered a mixed media since it is composed of brown ink- wet media- and black chalk- dry media- on paper. “When using a quill pen, the line can be thickened or thinned, just depending on the artist's manipulation when using the pen, the flexibility of the pen, and the absorbency of the paper. The more absorbent, the more freely the ink will flow through the fibers. The more flexible the pen is, the lines are more
Since liquid medias are so fluid, they can also be applied with a brush. Most of the works, during the Renaissance, were done with iron-fall ink, which was made from a gall, a swelling on an oak tree caused by diseases. The ink at first application was black, sometimes the ink was brown, but as time goes by and the art ages, the ink slowly turns into a brownish color, or the lines will fade.”(p.173) Back in this era, it was very common for artists to use a quill pen to dip into their ink when writing or drawing. “The quill pen was often made from geese or swan feathers, which allowed for a far greater variation of line and texture in drawings than is that of a metalpoint stylus.” For this media I choose Elisabetta Sirani, The Holy Family with a Kneeling Monastic Saint, ca. 1660., private collection.(p.173) Technically, this art work would be considered a mixed media since it is composed of brown ink- wet media- and black chalk- dry media- on paper. “When using a quill pen, the line can be thickened or thinned, just depending on the artist's manipulation when using the pen, the flexibility of the pen, and the absorbency of the paper. The more absorbent, the more freely the ink will flow through the fibers. The more flexible the pen is, the lines are more