Bic Tulips and an ink blotty mask

Dear Nikki/Dear Sarah--Day 428 of our daily drawing exchange

Hi Nikki,

I have only tried credit card painting with watercolour—even then you don’t need a lot of paint. I can imagine you’d need very little with acrylics. I don’t have any Hooker’s Green watercolour. I’ll put it on my list. It’s so vibrant.

I know I said I wasn’t going to draw any more tulips, but this morning I looked at them, all bedraggled and sad, and thought it might be interesting to draw them with my Bic pens, which are deeply unforgiving! I cheated a bit and added touches of green and yellow pencil, but the rest is blue, black or red Bic.

I bought new tulips today but I’m not going to paint or draw them. Just enjoy them. And wait for spring.

XO S

Hi Sarah -

the BIC pens (biros, as Dad used to call them) feel just right for these poor droopy tulips.

Remember yesterday I said I sopped up the extra paint by ‘printing’ onto the facing page?

That’s what the excesses looked like.

Using my water brush pens and a fine-nibbed fountain pen, fiddled a bit and this mask appeared. I can imagine a house or barn on the left. This all felt a bit ink blottish.

For now,
Nikki