Art 103: Tomatoes with Inktense pencils

Perfect for farmers market sketching!

Today I’m sketching Sharyn’s photo of tomatoes from the garden. The timing is perfect, because I was recently at the farmer’s market with some Inktense pencils and a waterbrush, and I thought, once again, that these are really the perfect sketching tools for something like drawing produce at a crowded market.

Even a very portable watercolor setup is a bit much when you’re jostling for space and moving around a lot. But a handful of pencils and one little water-filled brush? It’s actually perfect!

We did this once before—it’s Art #1, if you’d like to look at it.

Inktense pencils are water-soluble pencils, similar to watercolor pencils. That means:

• When you draw with these pencils and then add water, the color moves around

• If the paper is wet, you can still draw on top, and in fact you can get wonderful saturated color that way (the pigment in regular colored pencils simply will not adhere to wet paper)

• You can also just draw with them like regular colored pencils, with no water at all, alth…