Ink Brush Painting on Newsprint

Lesson Summary

In this lesson we will be inking various animals, plants and scenes on newsprint.

Choose a subject that is well suited for this are style. For example: Chinese characters, portraits, plants, or anything that you feel will make a good subject with black ink

First glue newsprint in sketchbook in strips or peices or fullsheets. 

Ink your canvas.

Frame with strips of black paper. 

Lesson Objectives

What you do

• Select a sea animal you want to draw. Choose a paper colour. The colour should compliment your animal, for example, choose grey paper for a grey dolphin or green paper for a green crocodile.

• Lightly sketch your sea animal onto colored paper with a pencil.

• Paint the shadows with cool colors and add highlights with warm light colors.

• Use white to express bright highlights.This has an effect of making your artwork look as if it were jumping off of the paper.

• Choose another sea animal and repeat the process.

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