5 November 07
Brush Pen in the Zoo
Every time we go on a sketching outing we are always faced with the crisis of what art materials to pack. Not having to carry the materials on a week-long backpacking trip means the luxury of porting drawing implements one never ends up using. Of course I try to guess what will be most useful, but the guess is usually somewhat off.
My experiment yesterday at the zoo with the waterbrush loaded with ink was interesting — I like the technique, but the particular waterbrush I had was leaking too much ink onto my hands. I ended up using mainly a sepia Faber-Castell brush artist pen together with watercolor wash. The red pandas were simply crying out for lots of rich burnt sienna. At left is one of them being fed bamboo leaves. I also drew lots of the big cats — at right is a tiger I sketched just before we headed out.
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Your sketches are so good! I’ve enjoyed browsing here and I should try more sketching myself – thanks for the inspiration!
Numenius:
Your animal sketches, here and over on the Crawl forum, are delightful. I do like the results you can get with that (messy) brush.