1000 Ways To Use Ink

When people think about black and white, they normally think about pen and paper used as ink. This is true, but ink can be used for many different things. Ink has various roles which includes the pen and paper, paint and canvas, to the body art of tattooing.

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            We have gone through different types of writing utensis. From using the fingers to sticks to fountain pens.

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Ink can go all the way back to the Neanderthal time of painting on the cave walls of what they saw and did. Now fast forward to the Chinese era with the new type of ink they started using to draw and paint on silk canvas. They used graphite from some minerals found to make a dark ink that would stay. They would also use plant dye and make glue from animals to make the ink. To the robust colors of the sixteenth chapel painted by Michelangelo.

Some people decide to use ink to draw different feelings, imagination, and style using their bodies as a painting. From using the body to remember times from their past to just random art they liked on the wall in a tattoo parlor. Some group of people get tattoos together to remember what they have achieved as a team like graduate college, beat a disease, and family ties.

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So you can see that there are many different ways and types of use of ink. All through the ages ink was one of the things that stood its task and developed to become what it is today. Just look at all the painting through time that have stayed here from just using a type of ink.