/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>A brush pen is not like other pens. The tip is made of individual hairs like a delicate watercolor brush. The ink flows from a well in the shaft down into its bristles, patiently waiting to be released into the fibers of a sheet of paper. Unlike ballpoint or technical pens, it requires very little pressure to make a line. A tender lick with the pen on the page can produce a sufficient mark. Press too hard and the line becomes hulkish and coarse exposing the ham handedness of the artist. The pen challenged me, yet I was eager to bring this unwieldy tool to heel. It required the hand of a surgeon to make the kind of lines I was used to making with other pens. The more I experimented, the more I realized the pen had benefits waiting for me to unlock.