Brush Pens

One of the things our teacher had us do in our workshop last weekend was to experiment with a brush pen. The first exercise in our journal was to make brush depictions of ponderosa pine needles. Later when we got outside, she had us using them to sketch the midribs of leaflets and leaves.

I’ve decided to learn my way around brush pens better and have since bought two of the six-pen sets of Faber-Castell Pitt brush pens, the landscape color set and the shades of gray set. Here is a little tryptich I did this evening — that’s Charlie in the window on the right.