Crafted By Colette

Day 11 revisits my new interest in pens: specifically dip pens and writing with paint.  I’ve been meaning to see if using acrylic paint as an ink is as successful as using watercolours – as I wrote about in that post.

I picked a nice bright Christmas red, and got started.  I had a couple of false starts while I tried to work out the right consistency..

…but I got there in the end.

After that I got to doodling.

I still need to work on the amount of ink/paint I’m loading on to the nib – you can see a few blobs here and there.  I plan on redoing that gift Zentangle next year, to see how my skills have improved.