Les' Wash Recipes

I hope my efforts in testing inspire others to find cheaper alternatives to save our community money. With the prices of models and other things not easily replaced, the hobby is expensive and we should share what we can.

All I ask is give me credit where credit is due if you decide to spread the word.

WASH RECIPE:

You will need:

• Distilled Water (grocery store)
• Liquitex Matte Medium (Product Link)
• Liquitex Flow Aid (Product Link)
• 1oz bottle (Product Link)
• Daler Rowney Acrylic Artist inks (Water Proof) (Product Link)
• 2 filler bottles (Product Link)
• Recipe notebook so you can write down custom mixes

All recipes use 1 oz bottles. Adjust to whatever size you decide to go with.

Preparation

1. Fill 1 filler bottle with Matte Medium, the other with a 10:1 Distilled Water and Flow Aid.
2. Fill the 1oz Dropper Bottle half way with Matte Medium then fill the rest of the way with the Water/Flow Aid mix leaving a little room for the ink drops so you dont over flow.
   
   Every bottle uses this combination to start with.
3. Shake inks well before adding them to the mix.

Tailoring Washes to your liking:

• DARKEN-LIGHTEN: add or subtract drops from the recipe (duh lol)
• THICKEN WASH: Change the 1:1 medium and water mix to have more matte medium than water i.e. 60% medium 40% water
• THIN WASH: Opposite of above, more water than medium in mix.

Experimenting with MIXES and Custom Colors:

This took time and money to get things right in the recipe. The best advice I can give you is "write it down". Have a little notebook just for mixes. Write the medium/water ratios and drops of ink (each color if it's a combo). The number of colors you can come up with are limitless.

Colors

My mixes will give you a starting point and you can customize to your liking from there.

You can mix the ink colors to make infinate amounts of custom colors for your own purpose. Never buy washes with limited color choices. You now have the recipe to the most flexible wash production that you can do at home.