{"id":302,"date":"2011-12-14T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsart.posterous.com\/new-pen-tests"},"modified":"2013-05-31T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:38:38","slug":"new-pen-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/new-pen-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pen Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Testing my new pens.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>1.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Kuretake Zig Cocolro pen with sepia ink<\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>2.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Zebra disposable brush pen – extra fine<\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>3.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Pentel Aquash Waterbrush pen<\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>4.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Kuretake Waterbrush Pen – petit set<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I tried the Zebra disposable first. It has a nice fine tip. You can also use it on its side for a broad stroke. I touched the Ku<\/span>retake Petit waterbrush to the tip of the Zebra and found that it deposited some black ink to the brush so I could do an ink was<\/span>h. Worked great.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next I touched the Kuretake Sepia pen and found it did the same thing and that I could do nice brown tone washes. The waterbrush<\/span>\u00a0draws most of the ink off the tip of the ink pen. So, you have to tap the brush on a hard surface to get ink to flow again in t<\/span>he pen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next I wrote a note on the right hand side with the Kuretake sepia pen. Notice how it gets faint about half way into the note. T<\/span>hat’s because I did another wash and drew more ink off the tip and discovered that I had to tap the pen to get the ink going aga<\/span>in.<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried some watercolor with both waterbrush pens. I used the Grumbacher paints in my larger travel palette. I also tried Portfo<\/span>lio Series water soluble oil pastels. It’s the light blue down in the lower right hand corner. Water hardly smudged the pastel a<\/span>t all. So, that’s a disappointment.<\/span><\/p>\n

I found I could do splatters by flicking the waterbrush across the tip of the\u00a0ink pen.<\/p>\n

Finally I used a white gel pen to make some fine lines across the watercolor. It works but you have to do it in single strokes.\u00a0<\/span>If you scribble back and forth it gets muddy because the gel ink is water soluble. It picks up the underlying color.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote my artist’s notes in Notability on my iPad. You can export your notes as a PDF. Here’s the PDF file in case you want to download a copy and open it in iBooks on your iPad.<\/p>\n

New Pen Tests.pdf<\/a>\u00a0(285K)<\/p>\n

Jim<\/p>\n

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Testing my new pens. 1. Kuretake Zig Cocolro pen with sepia ink 2. Zebra disposable brush pen – extra fine 3. Pentel Aquash Waterbrush pen 4. Kuretake Waterbrush Pen – petit set I tried the Zebra disposable first. It has a nice fine tip. You can a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-traditional-art","7":"category-watercolor","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-4S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}