A couple of weeks back I bought a bottle of Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay Sepia India ink to try. It can only be used in a dip pen. So, I also bought a bamboo pen. I have on hand other brown inks including Diamine Dark Brown, which I used to start this drawing using my new bamboo pen. I had used the Bombay Sepia on an earlier sketch, but it didn’t flow well and I wanted to compare it to something else.
I have been looking recently at the drawings of Van Gogh and noticed he often used a combination of black and brown inks. After drawing with the brown, I added Platinum Carbon Black ink with the same pen.
Here’s what the pen looks like:
Turns out all the inks I tried flow the same. It is hard to draw with this pen because you can only get four or five marks down before you start to run out of ink.
Materials: Strathmore 9×12 Drawing series 400 paper, bamboo red pen dipped in Diamine Dark Brown ink and Platinum Carbon Black ink.
