To make black ink, the ink stick is rubbed in water in an ink stone. The ink stick friction grinding to mix with water. The finger of grain from the ink stone, ink is smoother and more time required for milling.
The stone is extremely smooth and hard. The plates of the famous ink selected from Anhui, China, where most are black stone, but there are varieties with red or green plans in stone.

Ancient Chinese ink is made of pine soot and other ingredients are mixed with glue to hold together. It comes in the form of a stick, sometimes round, sometimes square, decorated with signs and pictures of the gold coat. The other sticks of black carbon ink mixed with varnish, as porridge or bacon and camphor, which is slightly blue, the metallic sheen. (It is said that if pen ink is rubbed on the lips or tongue) as a good remedy for convulsions and seizures.

A good ink stick to a low weight and very fragile. The best ink sticks produce a black, not stick to brush your hair or fade with time.

The size of the ink stick should be the size of the ink stone, which is rubbed on the situation and the amount of ink to the needs and size of the required color compatible. Big Bamboo Images need to write a large ink stick, ink stone and brush, but a short distance from the ink, not so much made for wood and stones may be more limited.The ink pen is too slow to use, but will always be the last ink stone.

Before you start painting, the artist is always prepared fresh ink. Although the ink in bottles are not suitable for painting to create the variety of sounds, tissue Pearl Gray in absolute black, the result of the ink stick may be constructed.
The action of rubbing the ink stick in water for ink stone has the effect of psychological preparation of the stochastic effect of the photo before and is almost always a sacred act.

To mix the color, first a little clean water wells in the ink stone. Keep keep the ink stick and dip one end to the curb, then begin to rub the surface of the stone ink. (The amount of water depends on the amount of ink that you expect to need.

Rub the ink is very different from the stone circles in a clockwise direction to prevent the ink is thick and greasy. If the move seems to be friction, moisten the edge of the curb water, or add an extra minute in water-pipette or a small spoon. The ink is ready when it reaches an almost oily texture, so that trails behind the surface of the stone. At the time, which is more abrasive grinding noise is muted and soft. As the water slowly evaporates, the mixture is concentrated more slowly.

Then, a fountain pen should not be found on the ink stone, or stick and damage the stone, so please let it air dry freely. Old ink should not be left to dry and to clot in stone as seed rub gritty new ink when mixed together can destroy. Wash gently clean stones.