My aim was to experiment with brush-pen and the expensive felt-tip (to actually use that before it dried up!). And I took along a bottle of ink with one of those eyedropper tops. The heavy lines here are done with the eyedropper, the thin lines with my usual fountain pen, trying to disperse the eyedropper ink, which was thick and very wet. This took a long time to dry.
The square tip gave a variety of widths. Those dots cry out to be french knots ... one of these drawings will (surely?) become a journal quilt...
Using the brush-pen was very freeing -
Later, meeting son Thomas at the Royal College of Art degree show, I took some quick notes in a book made from a sheet of paper - here it is laid out flat, along with some of the students' postcards. The wooden jewellery and multi-weight yarns devore woven fabric were stunning, as was the jewellery made out of bits of rubber gloves - so many "crazy" ideas, beautifully realised.
Didn't have time to go see the painting and photography this time - we went shopping, unsuccessfully, for extra-long trousers and a formal shirt with extra-long sleeves.
The square tip gave a variety of widths. Those dots cry out to be french knots ... one of these drawings will (surely?) become a journal quilt...
Using the brush-pen was very freeing -
Later, meeting son Thomas at the Royal College of Art degree show, I took some quick notes in a book made from a sheet of paper - here it is laid out flat, along with some of the students' postcards. The wooden jewellery and multi-weight yarns devore woven fabric were stunning, as was the jewellery made out of bits of rubber gloves - so many "crazy" ideas, beautifully realised.
Didn't have time to go see the painting and photography this time - we went shopping, unsuccessfully, for extra-long trousers and a formal shirt with extra-long sleeves.
It's amazing how the brush pen gives your drawing an oriental feel.
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