Gouache with Pen and Ink Gallery


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Having spent years as a draughtswoman, ink in all it's forms is a familiar medium and one I'm always happy to work with, especially for detailed drawings. I use Indian ink with a dip pen and sable brushes and Pelikan Drawing Ink A in a technical pen and with sable brushes. Click the link to read my review of the Roberson range of Penman Inks, which includes a Liquid Gouache ink, which was excellent to work with.

Gouache is great for fine art and illustration work, quick drying and correctable, if you've not tried it, it's a bit like using a controllable watercolour paint, it also has an opaque, matt finish but I find it another amenable medium. For an introduction to Gouache painting click the link.
For all of the paintings on this page the subject was drawn first, this allows for any corrections before putting either medium to paper, although both are correctable, the corrections always show to the experienced eye! I rarely work above 10" x 8" with these two media.

Dip pen nibs and all of the inks mentioned above can be found by clicking either link.

the mushroom was set up, drawn and painted as you see it

unusual mushrooms these but with beautiful detail on the stalks

It has a long name for such a small mushroom!
Gouache on watercolour paper 10" x 8" Sold.
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This mushroom was painted using the Liquid Gouache inks and Sable/synthetic brushes, on 115 lb Bristol Board.

A unusual specimen! Gouache on watercolour paper. 10" x 8" Sold
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sepia ink and a rigger brush to work the fine detail of this rose arrangement

Berries. Ink in a technical pen, using a pointillism technique on HP paper.
Part of an 8" x 10" picture.

Small part of a drawing using a Joseph Gillott 303 drawing nib and Vine Black (PP ink), on 115 lb Bristol card.

Maturing Rose.
Sepia Ink and a rigger brush on Hot Pressed paper. 10" x 8"

Just a doodle. 2" x 2"
on 90 lb. Cartridge Paper.

This was just a quick pen and ink sketch, using the Gillott 170 nib and Roberson's Penman Classical Transparent Ink.

A larger image of the right hand bud from the above painting.