Making a Splash

Lately I've fallen deeply in love with the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen! So deeply in fact that I found them on sale at Michael's a week ago and bought three (3!) extras with refills.  I bought my first one at Dick Blick and have already used up the first ink cartridge.  They do go fast; so stock up!  It takes a few sketches to really get the hang of this pen, but oh --- once you do, you can't stop!!!

The variation in the line that you can achieve almost effortlessly is just so much fun!

Below are some sketches I've done with this pen lately.

(This year I noticed the apple blossoms on a tree at the back of my property for the first time.  I don't know if it was this gorgeous spring we're having that made them bloom bigger and better or just that I finally "LOOKED", but wow!  I set up this little still life at work of them in a cobalt blue Carter's ink bottle! Luscious! )

The Pentel Pocket Brush Pen is so much fun to work quickly and capture the main lines, the essence of the subject; then add watercolor - and voila!  A gorgeous, fun sketch; and you've made a memory!

An after-prom dress-shopping-sketch - what a fantastic memory.  And this lamp post outside at O'Charlie's was worth enduring the cold breeze that was blowing in the late afternoon as we ate.  I think it was this sketch that made me fall deeply in love with the Pentel Pocket Brush pen :-)

The following sketch was done quickly with Tombow Dual Tip Markers. They're watersoluble!

It's like a marker full of rich, briliant watercolor!!  I love using these markers; it gives you a watercolor effect, but you can get the lines in too for more definition.  I always want to put lines with watercolor.  Watercolor (when I do it) just doesn't seem to me to stand on its own.  Or maybe I just love lines.

Joanne Sharp introduced me to these wonderful markers in her lettering classes I'm taking - check them out; you will be so happy that you did!