Tuesday, March 4, 2014

SKETCHBOOK: White Pens!


Had a fun little surprise in the mail today...a couple of WHITE SHARPIE MARKERS arrived that I had ordered from Amazon.com.

My friend, Joyce Harbin Cole, introduced me to these pens a couple of weeks ago, when I saw a cool sketch she had done on her blog ("Draw Daily"...Livingston County Courthouse).  So tonight, I did a little test page that you see above.  When I posted this on a couple of Facebook Sketcher Group pages, it lit up the boards with comments.  Apparently, lots of artists are looking for a good opaque white pen!

These are "water-based" (also called "poster paint") markers, but are permanent when dry, so they work well with my sketches and water color washes.  I'm excited to play with them more!  Thanks again, Joyce!

UPDATE 3-22-14 ---------------------------------------------
Here is a sketch that I just finished today of those same spoons shown above, using the "Extra Fine" point white Sharpie marker. I glazed washes over the white, to soften the brightness.  Then I added a little color mixed with white watercolor, to get some opaque tones into the highlighted areas. The tree sketch was done last weekend (with a little bit of the marker used on the highlights in the bark).  I love these markers!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this. There is on of my old files on Flickr of a very similar spoon....a gravy ladle. Wish I had the white pen for it

Anonymous said...

I think I went to college with you. Melanie Montgomery

Warren said...

Hello, Melanie...I'll have to look you up in the yearbook...my old brain needs a face to go with the name. How did you find my blog?

Warren said...

Hey, Melanie...we DID go to Tech together! I had your face circling in my brain, and it turns out that it matched with the yearbook photo!

Hope you are doing well...it's only been 35 years since I saw you last. Ha!

Anonymous said...

Oh, the spoons are more than awesome! Makes me want to try something detailed and complicated! Mom

winna said...

I have the pens now and am chomping at the bit to take your class you posted...it looks super duper and I can't thank you enough for posting it...winna

http://flickr.com/ejmordasky/photos

I see the "s" doesn't have room to be in the address line...