this, you now need to lay down the washes
using a flat head brush. The washes will give
you the tonal contrast in the drawing. I
suggest that you start with the lightest tone
first because if you do not make the tone
dark enough at the first attempt you can
always add to it to make it darker. If you
work the other way round it is more difficult
to correct, and you will have to use
correction fluid to cover up your mistakes. I
have chosen a landscape for my example as
I think landscape is very suited to this way
of working with washes and pen and ink.
The washes for the picture should be mixed
with water in a dish. The more water that is
added to the ink the thinner the wash will
be, and therefore the lighter the tone. So
when you have mixed your first wash try it
out first on a piece of paper, to see if you
have the appropriate tone for that section
of the drawing that you are going to put the
tone too. In the first example, you can see
that there are six tonal washes that range
from a very light transparent tone, gradually
getting darker until in the last tone we have
a black opaque tone. In the next example,196
Part Three – PENS, INK, BRUSHES and PAPER