Paula Peeters on The Ink Pad

Hey Lucia, thanks so much for sharing your adventures, so many great ideas and inspiration here! I do a lot of drawing outside: a little urban sketching, and a lot of nature journaling. Kit is always changing, but needs to be light, simple and portable. At the moment it’s a pencilcase containing a few TSWBI eco-pens with black ink, orange ink and green ink (de atramentis ink); Derwent Inktense paint pans #1 and #2 (I find this pigment much easier to use than watercolour as it becomes permanent when dry), few water brushes of different brush sizes (filled with water); and a few waterbrushes filled with different colours of Ecoline inks (pastel yellow, pastel green, pastel blue). That’s it. But I have lots of pencils, so thanks for your inspiration, I’ll have a play with them again soon. A pencil roll is really handy to keep pencils in order, but I haven’t found a pencil roll with loops big enough for ink pens, waterbrushes, etc. Thanks again for helping lots of people with your teaching. And don’t forget you seem to have leapt over one of the main big hurdles already - and that is to draw with a lovely loose, expressive line. Many people really struggle with that 😊