The orange ball of fire sank beneath the vast sea of inkiness as the sky blushed a deep red. |
And only then would people arrive with money and say, 'I want that.' Now — and I think this started with Pop Art — there's money waiting like a big blotter to blot up art, so that the slightest bit of inkiness is sponged up. |
The resulting images are beautiful, suffused with a sinister deep-blue inkiness, each with an unnaturally straight black line running over the sand and detritus on the seafloor — the cable itself, just sitting there. |
Then an absolute knockout beauty of a dish: cuttlefish risotto of pure inkiness, blackest of black, staining lips and teeth and gums, but worth it for its buttery depth of flavour. |
He wants the gloom of Haxard's death to remain in unrelieved inkiness at the end. |
I think it's inexorably connected to the Quentin Blake-ian inkiness of the drawings. |