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 "Dear Green Drop Ink Company: I just received the Aquagraphic Safe Art Printmaking Ink System last night in the mail and printed my first collagraphs, inked intaglio, with the black ink and tack reducer. I am thrilled with the results. Cleanup was a snap..no more greasy residue everywhere...and the detail I got in my print was better than the oil based ink I was using. I will need to do some experimenting with it to see if I can do everything I did before, but so far so good! I am a printmaking instructor and would like to pass on this valuable information, as well as order more inks. Thank you." - Susanne C., MD * ""Hi! I am totally thrilled with your ink. I tried the red and it is really good and strong. Thank you making this great invention." Nina M., Washington, DC * "Thank you for the existance of your company. It has made my job so much easier." Patricia B., Art Teacher, Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA * "Keep making this world healthier! Regards." Devy Ferdianto, Red Point Studios. * "Terrific! In the long run, this is the kind of ink all teaching institutions will use." Nik Semenoff, Artist in Residence, University of Saskatchewan. * "I have to say I am totally impressed that you guys developed a VOC free product. Even the paint manufacturers, with their massive R&D budgets and pressures from EPA, haven't brought theirs to market yet. I complement you on what you are doing. Anyone who is taking responsibility into their own hands and developing products that alleviate environmental and health damages ought to be encouraged and supported." - Richard O., Consultant, An environmental consulting company. * "I'm looking forward to these exciting new inks you make, exciting both for the nontoxic aspect and for the possibilities to use the water base ink printed into damp paper to create new watercolor like effects in printmaking." - Brian W., Shiga, Japan. * "I applaud your efforts in the endeavor to provide a fine product for use by printmakers who wish to create art without jeopardizing their health." B. J. T., The College of Santa Fe * "Waterless lithography has gotten a firm foothold here with Asbury College and University of Kentucky Printmakers. We're all excited about your products here. We use your inks exclusively in our workshops and students like your inks, especially the clean-up saves a lot of time." Ross Zirkle, Tamarind Masterprinter and Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts/Printmaking, Asbury College and University of Kentucky. * "I used the inks for Intaglio. The details that I achieved were excellent. I love the clean up with your inks." David H., Artist. * "This is the beginning of a new direction in printmaking and an exciting time to work with a process that is just celebrating the 200th year of its invention. If Senefelder were alive, he would certainly endorse the changes and improvements made over these 200 years." - Nik Semenoff, Artist in Residence, University of Saskatchewan. * "Hello to all of you. I am Daniel K. and live in Kyoto. I make woodblock prints, and various forms of mixed media prints. I am a deshi of Tokuriikii Tomikichiro. Although I studied classic techniques I find no personal need to focus on repeating the methods of those who came before us. I use what ever seems to suit the image. I don't own any form of printing press other than several kinds of baren. I like to combine the beauty of water based pigment pressed into the fiber of the paper by the baren with the gestural flow of lithographic touché plates. However, my main focus is really on painting. I noticed that some of you are trying Green Drop Inks. This product is excellent. The primary benefits are the lack of volatiles and the ease of clean up. If your needs require an waterbed litho type tacky ink you will be happy. I personally don't like to smell the lithotene, etc.. in my studio. The inks have the qualities of both water based and oil based products. This is not an alkyd either. The relief inks from Green Drop should also be excellent to achieve the heavy application commonly seen in prints produced with oil based inks outside of the classic Japanese process. If you want a really all around solution then Green Drop is also good as it can be thinned down with water to act as any other water suspension pigment. If , however, you are doing classic Japanese printing with a brush and don't require any oil like properties there is probably not much need for inks which are formulated for brayer application. (In fact this can easily be done with any waterbed color and a bit of starch such as nori.)" - Daniel K., Kyoto, Japan. |