This reed pen is very interesting. I used it for these sketches today along with my sepia Dr. Ph. Martin’s india ink.
The line produced by the pen is either dark-dark-dark (when the pen has just been dipped in ink) or light-light-nonexistent (when it’s running out of ink, about one second later). This is an all-or-nothing instrument, that’s for sure. I see myself using it to create hard lines but as far as shading goes, I much prefer pastels to the tedium of scratching in the halftones. Even when I was able to get a fairly good looking shading effect (for instance on the nose on the top sketch) it didn’t satisfy me.
I just can’t bear to leave the paper looking white when colors add so much as far as tone and shade, so I worked the bottom two sketches over in pastels. These are masks, my latest obsession. The pirate on the bottom came out particularly well. I think I caught the “Aye, that’s what YOU think, matey” sneer quite expressively. It’s a little weird in combination with the innocent geisha mask on the bottom left…she came out with a strange eager expression as if she can’t wait to run and get Captain Nasty a glass of sake.
My desk is messy. Need evidence?
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