Alcohol Ink Inspirations

Almost no one can ignore the handlettering trend at the moment. For successful handlettering, you need colourful eye-catchers or decorations to really set the scene for your lettering. In addition to the popular watercolour, you can give your lettering the finishing touch with alcohol inks. You can create a colourful or magical transparent background for your message or decorate only a part of your painting background with alcohol ink.

Apart from alcohol ink painting, the use with epoxy resin - or resin - is probably the best known use for alcohol inks. Alcohol inks are excellent for colouring epoxy resin.

With the help of alcohol inks, epoxy resin can be coloured in all the colours of the rainbow. In this way, you can produce a uni-coloured resin for further use. You can also add the Alcohol Inks after you have poured the resin into the mould. Depending on how liquid or how solid your epoxy resin is, the alcohol ink will spread. You can achieve interesting effects by adding several colours together or next to each other.

With a thin wooden stick you can now bring some movement into the colours. Or you can work in different layers: Let one coloured layer dry and only then add the next resin layer.

You will notice that the Opaque Alcohol Ink colours as well as the metallics gold, silver and copper react quite differently than the transparent colours. The reason for this is that these shades are made from pigments instead of dyes. Pigments are heavier than dyes and thus sink to the bottom more quickly in the liquid resin. But it is precisely this property that makes pigment inks so interesting for working with resin. If you add a few drops of pigmented ink to the previously dripped transparent alcohol inks, the popular rainbow effects are created, which are particularly popular for designing resin coasters, so-called petri dishes.

Also discover our Resin Inks specially developed for resin art. These inks are highly concentrated alcohol inks that achieve even more intense and vibrant colours in the resin. They can be used very sparingly. This does not affect the mixing ratio or the heat resistance of the resin. Our Octopus Resin Inks are absolutely true to colour and shine in the brilliant shades even after drying - without any brown tint.

Resin artists create true masterpieces, whether decorations, such as coasters, as well as jewellery, e.g. rings, pendants or earrings, key rings, paperweights etc. You can let your imagination run free and design the objects over and over again. Let yourself be enchanted by the colourful effects. Take a look at our tips and instructions for resin art for inspiration.