Here too we like to use old and traditional techniques, materials like a reed pen and a quill; cured at home and hand cut. Hand and homemade inks are used next to traditional Chinese ink from a bottle or from sticks. Still developing this skill with its many possibilities and materials like charcoal, pastels, inks and pencils.

Silverpoint has a special place and needs more preparation as the paper needs a few gesso layers. The used paper is hot pressed watercolour paper of Arches or Fabriano (640 grams) which is first sized with rabbit skin glue before the layers of homemade gesso are added. After it completely dried, one can start drawing with either Silver, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Brass, Bronze or Aluminium. While drawing tiny tiny bits of metal particles are left behind on the gesso, one pen lasts a lifetime. When hold against a light source, the drawing shines the colour of the used metal, which is a fascinating sight.

For many centuries artists work with Silverpoint, some known names who worked with Silverpoint are Leonardo da Vinci,  Durer and Rembrandt.

Praying Monk after Peter Paul Rubens.
Drawn with a brush and homemade walnut ink. Size 21*21 cm.

Original is made between 1587-1640 and belongs to the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Objectnumber:
RP-T-1887-A-1387
 

Drawing with brush in homemade inks: walnut, mallow blossom, Brazil wood.  Size: 15*21

After an engraving (London 1775-1810) by Luigi Schiavonetti who made it after a drawing of Peter Paul Rubens. Picturing Albert Rubens.
Original belongs to the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, objectnumber: RP-P-1918-2116

Silverpoint, golden Forsythia

Hatayi drawing on Indigo Blue Paper, with gold leaf

one of the techniques used is modern: 3-D animation with 4D-Cinema