Experiments With Pens

We've had a couple of lovely sunny days and my first daisy is tentatively peeping from her winter slumber.
The light's lovely in the morning, perfect for drawing and painting. After admiring the results other people have made with gouache paint, I bought some for myself.

I had a little play but I still find them very difficult to use, the brushes I was using made the marks clumsy and when I tried a finer one, the paint was too thick. They say don't blame your tools so maybe I'm just not suited to them! Anyway I'll try again another day, I don't want to give up on them just yet.

 This one was done with acrylic paint and the details were drawn with my Sakura pens.

Again, the one below is mainly acrylic with the line detail drawn with Sakura pens.

Have you ever tried using ordinary fineliner pens on paper and adding water?

 Because they're not waterproof, when they get wet they bleed and make a lovely watercoloury effect as you can see here.

You see how the pen marks take on a whole different effect when they come into contact with water?

I made a one minute video of me making the drawing above, showing how the water makes the pen line change into a coloured wash. I hope you enjoy it.

Bye for now,

Jess xx