TTCombat Terraced House (Experiment)
What's the point!
Time for another experiment. I decided to try out one of the techniques from the Faulkner book below. In it he used watercolour brush pens to add shading and highlighting to planked wood and slate style roofs. He also uses water colour pencils for adding details like wood grain. I don’t have any brush pens but I did have a few pencils so decided to give it a go on the roof.
First I tried putting it on dry and then feathering it with a damp brush – this wasn’t great – the flecks tended to come of the pencil in little clumps and wasn’t a good look – fortunately it’s easy enough to wash away.
Then I wet the pencil – this was a bit better but finally I first washed the roof with a wet brush and used that in combination with the wet pencil. Then I gently brushed along the horizontal with a large flat brush and then feathered it along the vertical with a smaller flat. I think this gave the best results.
Before (left) and After (right)I’m not 100% convinced about the results though I think with a bit more practice I could produce something better. I might see about picking up some brush pens to see how they might work
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