Faces By KLM

Brush Pen

One of my favorite ways to make art is by using pen, ink and watercolor. I learned about this method from Claudia Nice, who holds workshops at her studio in Oregon. Claudia has a lot of animals at her place, and workshop participants are able to see exactly how a horse's fur should be drawn by looking right at the horse!

When starting your drawing, you will first choose a subject or scene that you want to draw. If you're new to drawing or to this form of art, choose something simple, such as a flower. The first step is to work up a pencil drawing sketch. You can use art pencils or just a regular pencil to do this.

If you are saying to yourself, "I can't draw so I'm not going to try this," please read on. Everyone can draw. You can put a piece of paper on top of a picture or photo and trace it; you can look at a photo or picture in a book and sketch it while you're looking at it; or you can create abstract art by making shapes on your paper using whatever comes to mind.

Supplies you will need include:

• A pencil
• Watercolor paints, watercolor sticks, or watercolor pencils
• A small paint brush and some water
• Ink pens -- the ink must be waterproof, smudge proof and archival
• Watercolor paper - 130 lb is a good choice
• A picture or an idea of what you'd like to draw

After you've completed the pencils drawing, the next step is to add the ink work. You will do this by simply tracing over the pencil lines with the ink pen. To add depth and dimension to your work, add extra ink in areas to darken. If your subject is an animal, add lines or strokes of ink to darken the fur around the eyes and other places.

Next, you will choose areas to add watercolor to. Use the watercolor pencils, sticks or paint with the brush and a little water. Be careful not to over saturate your paper by adding too much water as you don't want all the colors to run together -- or maybe you do! There's no such thing as bad art and you don't have to show your work to anyone if you don't want to! So have fun and experiment.

Making art is relaxing and fun! You can find informative, straight forward art instruction by visiting http://www.centerforspiritualarts.com. Have confidence that you can create your own art -- the inner expression of the self.

Which inking pens/brushes are your favorites?

I'm looking into buying some higher quality inking pens and brushes for cleaning up drawings. I'm thinking about starting a drawing journal that is going to last and whose pages I might eventually scan. So a dependable pen would be great!

After years of using drawing nibs, techical drawing pens like Rapidograph, and black ink brush drawings, I've finally settled on plain, old Sharpie brand laundry markers, both medium and fine point for, virtually, all my ink on paper jobs.

If not the Sharpies, I create drawings entirely in my computer using Adobe Illustrator's vector based drawing tools, or, by digital drawing pad and the freehand tools of Illustrator or Photoshop.

May not be the kind of answer you were looking for, but, as a freelance designer, time really DOES equal money, and, the simpler or more efficiant the tool, the better.

I had a set of those brush pens, and they had a NICE texture and feel to them. The ability to vary a line thickness felt very natural, and mimicked the variability of a good drawing pen nib, but with BIG, bold lines. But, I found the limited color selection very stifling and I did most of my color work, before going digital, with some very good artist's color markers. The color selection was huge, and I had as many as a couple of hundred of these pens at any one time.

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