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| Pen, ink, and w/c, softcover Stillman & Birn Premium Sketchbook, Beta Series |
At her workshop on using pen, ink, and watercolor recently at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, artist Emily Weil talked about being creatively "split open like a watermelon" by her mentor, Leigh Hyams, now deceased, who wrote How Painting Holds Me on the Earth.
It felt like Emily's workshop had the same effect on me. We used Speedball-type dip pens with the removable steel nibs with india ink and acrylic ink to create loose, bold line drawings of peppers...let the ink dry (acrylic ink dries faster than india)...and then added watercolor. Viola! It was fast and fun and it felt so freeeee.....!!!
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