Tag Archives: Cocoiro pens

Challenge: One Book, One Pen, One Month, #1

Posted on July 4, 2014 by dkatiepowellart

I’m up for a simple challenge like this, or so I thought. Laughingly, the first night I broke the rules. I used multiple colors of the same pen and then used a waterbrush!  EEEK! The book: OE NOTES (my favorite … Continue reading →

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Quan Yin Sits

Posted on June 11, 2014 by dkatiepowellart

Blue ink with Cocoiro pen and waterbrush (lightly) on Okima OE NOTES sketchbook. Learning to be faster and less structured, less pencil, more ink. Then I played with her in watercolors: Daniel Smith and Golden’s QoR. I enjoyed hitting a new … Continue reading →

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D is for Drawing Pens: A-to-Z Challenge

Posted on April 4, 2014 by dkatiepowellart

My favorite drawing pens are Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens, shown right as the top three pens with their caps off.  I love them because they are wonderfully waterproofed India ink, and work best of all the pens on shellacked … Continue reading →

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