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Light Gray Sumi Wash Ink Intenze Japanese Tattoo Ink - 12oz Bottle
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Intenze Japanese Tattoo Ink– Light Gray Sumi Wash Ink – 12oz Bottle
Japanese Tattoo Ink - In wash paintings, as in calligraphy, artists usually grind their own ink stick (Japanese: sumi) over an ink stone to obtain ink, but prepared inks are also available.
Most ink sticks are made of either pine soot or oil soot combined with animal glue (Japanese: nikawa).
An artist puts a few drops of water on an ink stone and grinds the ink stick in a circular motion until a smooth, grey ink of the desired concentration is made. Prepared inks are usually of much lower quality.
Sumi themselves are sometimes ornately decorated with landscapes or flowers in bas-relief and some are highlighted with gold. We used this historical aspects to create the best tattoo pigments to achieve those effects on skin.
