Kuretake have launched a new challenge for April and the theme is Flowers. As the sun was shining I chose to sit outside with my new Moleskine book and doodle some flowers with my Artist Sketching pen. I decided to use the Clean Color brush pens to watercolour over the flowers.
Here's a little explaination of how I did it:
I used the Sepia sketching pen as I'm loving that look at the moment for sketching as design. These pens are water proof so I can quite happily paint right over them. I took my Clean Color pens and scribbled some colour onto a plastic lid.
I sprayed a little water onto the colour to create the watercolour paint and with my water brush I picked up some colour and started to colour in. It's surprising how little you actually need to pick up and I continually wiped my waterbrush onto a paper towel to blot off some of the paint to create a gradual painted effect.
I went back over some areas again to give more depth. I wasn't looking for accuracy here as I wanted a more sketchy look so I wasn't so bothered about keeping in the lines and not covering the whole of the image, that was the look I was going for.
I filled in around the flowers with a beautiful turquise green colour, again not staying true to the lines. As you can see, I didn't clean my brush before starting to paint with the blue and some of the yellow came off the brush. I wasn't too bothered about this and went with it, adding a bit more in other places.
To finish off, I loaded the brush with the turquise paint and banged the waterbrush over the back of a pen to create a few splatters.
These pens have such a beautiful vibrant colour to them and by keeping the little plastic lid in a box with my pens and a waterbrush, I can paint on the go, where ever I am.
