Walnut Ink Drawing Stick

Tom Norton's Walnut Drawing Stick is a handy drawing and wash tool similar to a bamboo dip pen on one end and a felt brush on the other. Switch from drawing to washing with ease! Both ends make unique and unpredictable marks, allowing you to achieve the same experience of drawing with a twig.

Most people, when they begin to draw, have a preconceived idea of what a drawing should look like, and this idea includes the kind of marks made by their drawing tool. Consequently, the look they are trying to achieve interferes with their ability to learn the basics of drawing. For this reason, instructors will often substitute twigs for drawing tools since twigs won't make a mark that is familiar or predictable to the student. This frees the student to start recognizing basic drawing elements such as the negative spaces between the marks made on a page and composition possibilities.

The Drawing Stick measures 9" tip to tip.