Brush & Ink Sketching

A 4hr workshop that will cover sketching with waterproof ink on paper. You will be taught line and shading techniques to build up tone in a drawing that will be useful for watercolour & ink workshops.

You will also use brushes with ink to create washes to establish tone and shade that are difficult to achieve with a pen alone.

This is an excellent introduction workshop for people that have not created a sketch with ink pens and ink washes before. Similar to the ink sketching workshop but also with ink washes.

Each student will be supplied with pens, paper, ink & brushes for exercises and a final ink sketch.


Skills you have learned

After you have learned how to use your pens with different hatching techniques. You will move onto tone & ink washes. You will then use these new skills to start sketching on larger sheets of paper.

The course will be follow by example, Osborne will explain each technique while sketching in ink.

Brush & Ink Sketching Examples

Boat shed Cradle Mountain Tasmania

House of Negotiable Affection – Blog Link

Dilapidation – Blog Link

Materials Supplied

This is a list of materials that each student will be supplied with to use on the day. (Please only take home your paper.)

Materials to take home

  • A6 Paper (exercises)
  • A4 Paper (main brush & ink sketch)

Materials to use then leave for next students at workshop

  • Uni Pin Waterproof Pen 0.05, 0.3, 0.7
  • Pencil
  • Water proof ink or black watercolour paint
  • Tombow brush pens

Optional Materials

This is a list of optional materials students may wish to bring along to class.

  • iPad + Charger to display reference images and to paint from in class (Note A4 printout supplied if you don’t own an iPad or tablet)

Upcoming Workshops

Please check the upcoming workshop page for more details on times, location and cost.