One of the many things I learnt while I was doing Kate Johnston’s Watercolour Pencil Class was that my drawing seems to be more about tone than line. That means I have a battle to get enough pigment on the paper to get dark enough darks. Week was mixed media, so I decided to do an experiment. I have a set of Tombow pens, but I must say I find the colours too strong for a lot of things. I decided to use that to my advantage and use the Tombows for my darks. I only used three colours of them – a dark green, a medium green and a bright red. The red was used over the dark green to get my blacks. Only the darkest tones are in Tombow – the mid tones and the light tones are all in watercolour pencil.
Orchids with Tombow pens & watercolour pencils
July 13, 2009 · 6 Comments
Categories: drawing · tombow pens · watercolour pencils
Tagged: drawing, tombow pens, watercolour pencils
6 responses so far ↓
delph // July 13, 2009 at 6:50 pm |
Beautiful! Love the bold colors on the leaves, and soft and delicate aspect of the flowers.
maryo29 // July 13, 2009 at 10:13 pm |
The darks really do help, don’t they? This is lovely!
Rock Kyndl // July 13, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
This technique works great in this piece…lots of depth. Nice work.
sandy // July 14, 2009 at 2:02 am |
Lovely rich values – Perfect!! and thanks for sharing your technique!!
hememd // July 14, 2009 at 6:45 am |
This is beautiful. I would never be able to figure out the media or mixed-media. Great job.
Donn // July 14, 2009 at 10:48 am |
Wendy, you did an outstanding piece of work on this one. It’s beautiful! It looks like you learned a lot.