Using the watercolor brush and ink, experiment making wash tones of light and dark
values.
You will need a dish of clean water and your bottle of black drawing ink. Also, you will need a mixing plate (plastic, metal, etc.)
Be sure to protect your working area with plenty of old newspapers or old table cloth under your work to absorb excess water.
Transfer several drops of ink from your bottle to the small mixing plate. The end of a drinking straw makes a useful transfer tool—or some similar, narrow, stick-like object.
Wet the brush with clean water, and dampen one half (top or bottom) of the paper surface with overlapping strokes, brushing lightly from left to right in horizontal rows. Do not scrub the brush back and forth, as that will affect the paper's surface. Lift the brush off the paper to begin each new row.
While the paper is still wet, touch the wet brush lightly to the black ink in the mixing plate, the dip into the water and stroke a horizontal row across the top of the paper. Add overlapping horizontal brush strokes down the paper, adding a little more ink to the brush for each row until the bottom rows are quite fully saturated in the darkest black tones. The wetness of the paper will blend the tones together gradually. Black ink with more water will create light tones; less water creates darker tones. You can do one or a few rows at a time. Experiment with this until you achieve the values.
Try this until you can get good light-to-dark blended tones. Do not try to use cross hatch strokes for this project. Soft, horizontal tones that gradually blend should result. No lines or distinct edges should be seen.
When applying ink for lighter values you can dip your brush in water and test it in a separate piece of paper. This may take some time to learn; be patient with yourself
Cut out squares (or a whole strip) and paste in the value scale on the chart. At this point you should have all the open squares filled and can submit your completed work to your teacher.
