Dear Everyone ~

I have enjoyed drawing with brush & ink and brush pens in all seasons, on many surfaces. Numerous styles of brush and types of inks are available, and I have experimented with quite an assortment—from wide to thin, from long to short, to felt tip. Two of the joys I find when drawing with a brush is that you can achieve in a single swoosh onto your paper, a lush line or a dainty line.

After many interludes of drawing & musing, I have chosen to add these two brush pens from Japan to the Bari Zaki Studio repertoire of brush & ink drawing tools: a deepest black & a cool medium grey. Both pens have a wide brush made from synthetic bristles, with a very fine tip. They have replaceable parts for both the brush tip & for the ink, though I have yet to personally replace either. The brush tip holds its shape perfectly, and the ink supply seems endless.

Recently, whilst I was drawing outside on a very sunny afternoon with the grey brush pen, the ink began to feather a tiny bit as it touched the paper—I was smitten! I believe it had more to do with the Hahnemühle paper texture than the ink, but serendipity nonetheless and all the more. I was delighted by the surprise and doubly delighted by the outcome.

The inks in both pens take nicely to all manner of paper finishes & weights, from Esleeck Fidelity Onion Skin to heavy & highly textured Aquarello. As you can see (at top), I have become fond of using the brush pens on the toasty golden pages of the Eurokraft booklets. And charmed by the way the grey ink flows on the Hahnemühle Bugra.

We now have five brush pens in stock: two black, two white, and one grey, with various brush widths & ink consistencies. All delightful for a multitude of drawing & writing pleasures.

Lush-ious new brush pens from Japan

Thinky about inky, Bari