Once they were happy with this we started work drawing a selection of flowers onto the background. They gradually started to gain confidence in drawing in this way. On some scrap paper, the children had a go at making a variety of lines and marks by dipping the bamboo skewers into the ink. They spent some time doing some observational drawing in pencil, looking carefully at the different shapes of the flowers, both inside and out.īy this time, backgrounds were nearly dry so we moved back to the ‘messy’ table to practice a bit with the Indian Ink. ![]() We then set the backgrounds aside to dry and moved to another table where I had set out a range of flowers. NOTE: they need reminders not to splurge all of the colours together completely to keep them nice and bright! They really enjoyed seeing all of the beautiful bright colours spread and marge. ![]() Once they had made lots of different coloured drops on the paper they helped them to spread across the wet background using a paint brush. I had considered using pipettes for this but as the food colouring came in handy little pots with their own droppers we just used them straight from the containers. They did this by first of all dampening a large sheet of water colour paper with water and then applying food colouring directly to the sheet. The children began by creating their wonderfully colourful backgrounds. This was a bit of a messy one, but also lots of fun: We also seem to be super fortunate with the lovely and talented children who come along to these sessions! I always enjoy running these sessions as the longer time (two hours) gives the opportunity to really get stuck into a process or technique and send the children home with some lovely finished work at the end of it. I have a huge bottle of indian ink, so when my pitt pens run out, I'll try refilling them, just to see if it can be done.We had a couple of great holiday club sessions over the Easter Holidays. You can get pitt/copic markers and others in different colours, but I've only worked with black so far. I hate the scratchiness of them on the paper, but it would be nice to ink in different colours occasionally. After the rotring pens, I LOVE my finepoint markers. They are also really messy, and I kept smudging the ink across my drawings. They are probably better if you use them everyday, and only on the right sort of paper, but particularly the smaller sizes just always clogged up on me, and I'd spend an hour messing about trying to get the ink flowing, only to end up with it all over my hands. Some people like them, but I had no end of troubles. I did try some rotring pens a while back. I try to remember to draw toward myself, rather than pushing the pen away - I think it's a little less susceptible to damage that way. I think I have bent the nib just a little, but it's still working fine. For really fine details, I also have a copic 0.03 marker, which is really cool, but I do have to be careful no to press too hard. My local art store doesn't stock the smaller sizes, so I unded up using a uniball 0.1mm marker. I have some FaberCastell Pitt pens for the large brush pen, and a medium size marker.
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