Liquitex 2-4 mm Fine Nib Paint Marker - Carbon Black

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Every so often I buy what I think of as a new toy. Something to experiment with that stops one getting stale and staid. (That is my excuse anyway !) As I use the Liquitex soft body acrylics that these are compatible with they appealed. I liked the idea of having lots of control and drawing with paint. The flow on these is good, but it is an idea to use a bit of scrap paper not your working surface when you encourage more paint through the tip by repeatedly pressing down. That way you avoid sudden catastrophic blobs. The paint itself is far less opaque than the same colours in the soft body range and dries to a shine, making me suspect that it has achieved its runny nature by using a lot of gloss medium as a base. I found this lack of opacity a bit irksome as having to go over everything twice rather ruined the spontaneity of drawing with paint, but it does mean that you can get some interesting effects by layering the colours. The paint film is more fragile than the tube variety if you use it on canvas and probably needs a coat of acrylic varnish on top to protect it. After a lot of enjoyable experimentation I came to the conclusion that, on canvas, these work well for detail, , finishing touches and signatures where the runny paint is an advantage. Also they were really good for the first marks on a canvas, combining underpainting with the precision of drawing. For this I bought two more colours, burnt umber and unbleached titanium ,which along with the black and white from the set worked well. However the formulation works really well on multi-media paper without drying to a shine and I think the markers might come into their own for those who enjoy working in multi-media on paper. I happily admit I am probably not the target audience for these paint markers but I had a lot of fun experimenting ( playing) and found several uses for them that were excellent. As a gift to a budding artist a set of these and a plain canvas covered sketch book to personalise could make a good gift perhaps ?

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Bright writer ! Make sure your surface is dry and clean. Press/pump the nib as you write.

Does not really reflect light.

I am so glad i bought these paint pens! they are awesome to use but i advice only use them when you have a large scale project to use them on like canvas in my case. the tips are not very pointed / fine detailed to use for intricate designs. still they paint is great, it has a little cracking on drying but nothing noticeable unless really close up. covers pencil and other pain colours really well . i always trust Liquitex and they did not disappoint in the product for me.

I had a bleach stain on one of my couch pillows that was really visible, pure white (forgot to take the before photo). I searched everywhere a replacement cover but the couch is 5 years old and the covers are no longer available. I said I'll try to dub a textile pen on a sponge and see if this would work and it worked like magic ! You won't even know where the stain was. I didn't use the pen directly on it, took a clean, new sponge and just dabbed it on the fabric with the pen ink. Super product!

The colour is as described/seen in the pictures. The marker fills spaces on any surface pretty easily and dries out quickly enough.