Chinese bamboo painting pens are fantastic for creating different lines and brush strokes when used with drawing ink. They are ideal for Chinese painting, calligraphy, and ink drawing.
Bamboo pens are used in Chinese calligraphy and can also be very expressive drawing tools. They are made of dried bamboo stems and designed to be dipped into ink. Because they do not carry much liquid it is difficult to create long flowing lines, but they are perfect for creating staccato marks, ticks, and for building up textures with short dry marks.
The flat ended bamboo pen will produce broad square marks, and the pointed bamboo pens will produce fine lines. The bamboo brush pen is double-ended with a round pointed goat hair brush on the other end, which creates gentle flowing lines and carries a lot more ink. The diversity of the marks that can be achieved collectively with this tool is impressively vast.
