CMP Review 2025-09-24

September 24, 2025

Charlotte Mason advocated for the use of “brush drawing” in nature journals. It utilizes a Japanese technique called Mokkutsu, which means “boneless”—so called because the strokes are made without the use of outlines.

I’ve been practicing this technique for the last dozen years or so, but yesterday I decided to use an outline along with traditional western glazing. Lesson learned. What you see here took me about 20 minutes and I’m only about halfway done.

I’m going back to brush drawing, preferring its fluid strokes to capture the life of a line.

Find out more about the watercolor technique on our Brush Drawing Resources page.

@rbaburina