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TJBARTS Tim Baker artist
The Leaf and the Moon (Just Drifting), R&K Salix ink with dip pen and brush, A5 sketchbook.

5PM Challenge

When Inktober finished in 2019 I felt rather bereft and wanted to continue, so I invented my own challenge, the 5PM Challenge where 5PM every day – or near to, I’d stop and draw for at least 5 minutes. This worked well until in 2020 Inktober 52 was announced which for a time ran alongside this challenge until splitting off as it’s own thing, and indeed I stopped working on Inktober completely in September 2020 – but this challenge continues!

Designed for just winter, because of lockdown it was extended through spring and summer, fizzled out in July 2020 and resumed again after the second Inktober/Mynktober in November. It’s the challenge that never dies!

Don't Stare At The Sun (Lockdown Series/Prussian Blue Abstracts), 5PM Challenge 145, Fountain Pen and Watercolour, A4 sketchbook.Bushy Mist (5PM Challenge 146), Fountain Pen with Hero 234 ink and Watercolour, A4 sketchbook.Twoism (Night Work), 5PM Challenge 118, Fountain Pen and Wash, A4 sheet.Lockdown 3: The Bends, 5PM Challenge 116, Daler Simply Acrylic Markers, Waterbrush, Kuretake Brush Pen, A4 sketchbook.Lockdown 2: If I Can't Own Nothing Then Nothing Can Own Me 5PM Challenge 115, Parallel Pen, Waterbrush and Kuretake Brush Pen, A5 sketchbook.Pyramids, 5PM Challenge 109, Kaweco Sport, Waterbrush and White Molotow Marker, A5 pad.Santolina (double panel), Fountain Pen and Watercolour. A6 @etchr_lab pad.Barge Diagonals, 5PM Challenge 108, Kaweco Fountain Pen and wash, A5 sketchpad.Going Back To My Roots No. 1 Abstract (in situ spread photo with 2006 drawing of trees in the Peak District) , 5PM Challenge 107, Parallel Pen and Marker with Molotow white ink and wash, A4-ish pad.The Birds, 5PM Challenge #110, Fountain Pen and Brush, A4 pad.Passing Flostam, 5PM Challenge 112, Fountain Pen and waterbrush, A5 sketchbook.River Cypresses, 5PM Challenge 113, Sailor Fude Pen and Brush, A5.Typology, 5PM Challenge 119, Hero 395 and wash, A5, sketchbook.Bearded Olympia, 5PM Challenge 122, Fountain Pen and Jackson's ink wash, A4 sketchbook.Lockdown 5: Covid To The Edge / Tripods and Pyramids, 5PM Challenge 121, Hero 395 pen with R&K Sketchink, A5 sketchbook.An Ending 4, 5PM Challenge 125 and 126, Fountain Pen and Wash, A4 sketchbook.An Ending 3, 5PM Challenge 125 and 126, Fountain Pen and Wash, A4 sketchbook.River Blues - Panel 1, Parallel Pen with my R&K Blue Black mix and Wash, A4 Sketchbook.River Blues - Panel 2, Parallel Pen with my R&K Blue Black mix and Wash, A4 Sketchbook.Windy Stormy Day - Candle In The Wind, Jackson's Ink, brush and candle, A4 sketchbookEvening Crane (Night Work series) , Fountain Pen, Ink and Watercolour wash, A4 Sketchbook.Windy Day, Kaweco Sport Pen and wash, A4 pad.Wet Wall and Bench, Fountain Pen and Wash, A4 Sketchbook.Surbiton Clocktower #1 - Naturally Chinese, Kaweco Fountain Pen, A5 sketchbookMaple Road, Watercolour and Fountain Pen, A5 etchr pad.Surbiton Clocktower #2 and bus stop, Bus Shelter Series 0121097, Kaweco Fountain Pen, A4 sketchbookDeep Water Deep Night (Night Work Series), Watercolour and Jackson's ink, A5 @etchr_lab pad.Achelous, 5PM Challenge 106, Parallel Pen & Fountain Pen and Wash, A4 Seawhite sketchbook.Rainy Day Sunset, 5PM Challenge 103, A4 @etchr_lab 100% cotton sketchpad .Kaweco Abstract, 5PM Challenge 104, Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen, A5 sketchbook.Reflection, 5PM Challenge 90, Fountain Pen, Sketchink and wash on A4 Seawhite pad.That side was made for you and me, 5PM Challenge 93, Fountain Pen and wash on A5 pad.Turks Two, 5PM Challenge 94, Fountain Pen and Watercolour, A5 Bockingford Pad.Benched (Rainy Day), 5PM Challenge 91, Fountain Pen and Wash, A5 sketchbookSimply Having A Wild Thyme (second panel) , 5PM Challenge 95, Fountain Pen and Wash, 2xA4 sketchbook.Simply Having A Wild Thyme (first panel) , 5PM Challenge 95, Fountain Pen and Wash, 2xA4 sketchbook.Sticks and Signs (two panels), 5PM Challenge 96, Fountain Pen and Watercolour, @etchr_lab A6 pad x2St Raphael's Across The River (panel 2), 5PM Challenge 98, Foubtian Pen and Watercolour, A5 @etchr_lab sketchbook.River View (second panel) , 5PM Challenge 99, Fountain Pen and Watercolour, A4 @etchr_lab padRiver View (first panel) , 5PM Challenge 99, Fountain Pen and Watercolour, A4 @etchr_lab pad
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