Pen, Ink, Brush and Flow

Glenn Hirsch

• Control the tone dilute with water• Reserve the white• Suggest a space• Drip for tone and texture• Paint shapes positive and negative• Paint lines thick and thin• Paint shadows!

control the tonedilute with water

reserve the white

define white shapes by painting around them

Richard Diebenkorn

Mark Rothko

Paint space and distance - light tones recede

Positive shape and negative shape

shading

Script Brush

tiny and long

Drawing lines

Thick and thin

Wet into wet for texture

Chen Rong

Nine Dragons

1244

Giovanni Tiepolo

Italian 1696-1770

Giovanni Tiepolo, 1760

Victor Hugo

French 1802-1885

Pablo Picasso

Spanish 1881-1973

Script Brush

tiny and long

Richard Diebenkorn

Amierican 1922-1993

drawing over random wash

Drawing with white paint

on top

Step 1White acrylic on top of the ink and wash

Step 2 After white is dry, more transparent ink washes are applied

white sponged on top of the dark

• Acrylic paint used as an ‘eraser’ to clean-up unwanted line

• White paint used as an ‘eraser’ to clean-up unwanted line

Pouring

Go forth and drip

Glenn Hirsch