Akua Intaglio Water-Based Ink, 8-Ounce Jar, Raw Umber

The color is nice. The ink is thick. It does not cure fast. It has been over 24 hours and still wet.

Ordered Yellow Ochre, which compared to the picture is more closer to Brown than the image suggests. Also the cap was slightly used and the silver seal had already been lifted halfway. There's a decent amount of product but still...I'm taking a printmaking course in school so all this is new to me.

I like to do monotypes and these are superb as they are slow drying acrylic based pigments. they don't dry up quickly like acrylic paint allowing time to work them for an extended amount of time. they stay fluid so i can keep working on them until im ready to transfer the worked art to paper.

Perfect for the plexiglass drypoint etchings I've been doing!

Great product in terrible packaging . Several of my ink orders leaked their color in transit. examining the individual items I found the inner sealing flap had lifted as if someone had opened them. And the top was not turned to a tight position. Akua/Speedball need to look at their packaging for these products.

very good product

Easy cleanup

Akua Intaglio inks have been a catalyst in my reimmersion into printmaking after a 27 year hiatus due to personal toxicity from solvent based inks and solvents. A desire to work again in printmaking utilizing non-toxic measures led me to these wonderful inks. My experience using them has been refreshing with huge open times on the plate and cleanup with liquid soap and h2o. Research online indicates that Akua Products seem to be the go to ink line for serious printmakers. Reference to their use seems to keep showing up in my ongoing research of printmakers work.

Pour la gravure beau bleu

Ink had a skin and seemed dried out - wasn't as liquid as usual. To much hassle to return in the pandemic.

No good results at all had to return it

Too loose to intaglio