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Alan Owen

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any one use a flexi nib fountain pen for pen and wash ?,, any make you prefer or flexi dip nib pens ,,,
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I had forgotten to use the Mahl stick Syd, yes - clever boy..... Even a ruler would have been better than my lamentable attempt to draw it freehand. Alan, there's a sketching pen on various websites, I noticed it the other day on the Ken Bromley site, and it looks interesting - I need to find out if it uses pigment ink, though, because other kinds aren't waterproof. The best fineliners I've used so far came from Rosemary & Co, and I think were by Pilot; I was less enthralled by the Staedtler variety, which rapidly ran out of ink and/or clogged - but anything can go wrong, and I may just have been unfortunate. I prefer a dip pen for line and wash, not that I do much of it, though they will give a line of somewhat unpredictable thickness: some people like that of course, in contrast to the "mechanical" line of a fineliner or Rotring pen. How about a quill - I mean a real one, eg from a goose (first catch your goose)? There's a skill to making these that I don't possess - you need a very sharp knife; but the line you get from them (I've had a couple in the dim and distant) is full of life and variety.

Alan Owen

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yes Robert the old quill writers could make lovely thick and thin sweeps as they wrote , specialist letter writers then ,

Phil Kendall

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Try white acrylic ink and a suitable sized calligraphy nib...mix black to give off whites! Start with one drop of white dispersed in 10 drops of water.
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Michael Edwards

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Its rare that I need white as I leave the paper for highlights but when I do want the odd bit of sparkle I use white acrylic ink straight from the bottle applied with a rigger or very small brush. Mind you I do use a lot of white acrylic ink in my abstracts and I'm always running out.
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I've seem the artist Margaret Evans using a tipex pen for hi-lights. When out sketching, I sometimes use a white gel pen a Hybrid 1.00mm, finer ones are available, I bought this product from my local art shop.. I also use a low-tack masking tape to stick my paper to a board for painting, peel away from the paper after it has dried... hey-presto lovely white border.

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