Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color-a mixture of mediums and techniques-to suggest:

glass

cast iron

adobe and brick

sunrise and sunset

driftwood

leaf textures

basketry

surf and ocean waves

enamelware

rainbows

wood grain

distant trees

eggs and onions

animal hair

and dozens of other textures!

You'll learn how to use materials, from technical pens to paint brushes, colored inks to liquid acrylics. You'll discover ways to blot, spatter, stamp and otherwise alter and combine ink and watercolor for exciting texturing effects.