tip-to-tip: water-reservoir brush+watercolour crayons, sticks and co.

Instead of using watercolours in pans, you can use  watercolour pencils, sticks/gelatos and crayons  with a water-reservoir brush or stiffer regular brush, but in the way you would paint with pans.

Tip-to-tip transfer: Brush over your water-soluble crayon/stick etc. (use more strokes to intensify the colour) and then apply it onto the paper. Alternatively draw  with the crayon direcly on the edge of the paper or a separate paper and take the colour with the brush from there.

This way the colour application is much softer than drawing directly on the paper and going over the lines with a brush. You can colour a dainty little drawing or cover a DinA3 and larger paper with beautiful patterns.

If you don’t have a watercolour travel pan set, you can always take your pencils, crayons etc. and a water-reservoir brush pen. There will be no spills, it does not take up too much space and you have double the use out of the pencils. Using them with the brush and also drawing details directly with them.

It is also something different to go over the crayon/pencil with a wet brush than immersing the whole crayon/pencil tip in water, which can damage the lead.

I also went over a Faber Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pen with the water-reservoir brush to take colour and transfer to the paper. After drying the colour is going nowhere, because of the waterproof ink used in the pens.                                                                                                                                      Why would someone do this to an already brush shaped pen tip ? You can cover a bigger area this way than with the small, less flexible brush pen tip; you can gently glaze the paper and if your brush pens are older, you still get good use out of them without having to draw streaky (although I found it can make also nice effects).

Painting on wet paper with the laden brush  helps covering the paper surface quicker.

left side: tip-to-tip transfer, on wet surface; right side: paper-to-brush transfer+wet brush over applied colour

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Touch Twin Markers and other products by ShinHanArt

Manufacturer: ShinHanArt

The Touch Twin Markers/ Brush Markers are vegan friendly. The ink is refillable and the nibs are replaceable.

All ShinHanArt products are cruelty-free and almost all are vegan friendly.

Following products contain animal derivatives- are not vegan friendly: 

  • PWC, Extra Fine Artist’s Watercolor-No. 683 Ivory Black, contains  PBk9    
  • ShinHan Professional Korean Color-No. 302 Black, contains PBk9   
  • Sh Korean Color-No. 302 Black, contains PBk9 
  • ShinHan Professional Korean Color-No. 331 Snow White, contains gelatin
  • Painting Glue (Medium), contains gelatin

The pigment PBk9 is made of animal bones.

 

Source: Mail contact

http://www.shinhanart.com/eng/_include/main.php

http://www.shinhanart.co.kr

 

 

Chameleon Pens

Manufacturer: Chameleon Art Products

Chameleon Art Products are cruelty-free and the Chameleon Pens are vegan friendly.

The Chameleon Pens have a brush nib and a bullet nib; they are refillable and the nibs are replaceable.

Source: Mail contact

http://www.chameleonpens.com/home

Stylefile Alcohol Marker and Marker Paper

Manufacturer: Stylefile (-> Publikat)

the Stylefile Marker, Marker Paper sketch-pads and sketch-books are all vegan-friendly!

The alcohol markers come in three variations :

  • Stylefile Marker: small pointed bullet nib and chisel nib
  • Stylefile Brush Marker: brush and chisel nib
  • Stylefile Allround Marker: one small pointed bullet nib and one big bullet  nib

you can buy Stylefile Marker ink refills and extra nibs

 

http://www.stylefilemarker.com

http://www.stylefile.de/stylefile-marker/graffiti/stylefile-marker/?category2[]=marker-zubehoer

 

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