When you don't know what you're doing cool things can happen! I've bought two or three brush tip pens in the past, but never really liked them.
One of our local art supply stores is closing. This is definitely too bad, but they're selling off stock and prices are low, which is good! I've been in twice and will visit again before they close. One thing I bought was a handful of brush tip pens (Pitt, to be specific). They were half price, in limited colors, but this was a good opportunity to try 'em out, cheap! I knew almost nothing about using these.
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| Tangles: Afterglo, Sanibelle |
I chose one of the pre-strung Zendala tiles and put some brush-tip streaks in several places. Originally I had some yellow there, but I didn't like it. The black and white middle sections looked silvery, but I thought the other sections should look more gold. I drew on top of the Afterglo tangle with gold ink and white ink in leaf stripes. Unfortunately the gold ink doesn't show up well in the picture. There's also a bit of sparkly red in the outermost triangles.
I had a variety of green pens so I did another one, again on a pre-strung Zendala tile. I also used an olive green Sakura Glaze pen and a white pen.
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| Tangles: Black Pearlz, Hurly Burly, Pais (sort of) and stripes with highlights |
I found that I did less tangle drawing and more color filling. I guess that figures. Once
there is brush tip ink on the paper, the next pen work tends to
bleed a bit, but it's manageable. With a brush tip, the line can vary from hair's breadth thin to quite thick. I need more practice to use this to good advantage. Sometimes there is a lovely transparent quality. For that, I wish I had more pale colors. I'll do more, and maybe get the hang of it better.
