Search results for: “5PM Challenge”
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5PM Challenge 24-37 Highlights
So we’ve reached the last 5PM Challenge images for this year, I’ve halted it until the Xmas Panic dies down. I might do some more in the Xmas ‘Hinterland’ if I have time, but mostly I think I need a rest. But sadly no rest for the wicked as I need to sort out festive…
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5PM Challenge Highlights day 9-24
It’s been a busy few weeks for the 5PM Challenge, which if you’ve not seen my Instagram or my previous post is a self-set challenge where I draw or paint (the rules of the Challenge formerly known as the 5PM Drawing Challenge are intentionally loose) every 5PM for at least 5 minutes – but as…
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5PM Drawing Challenge
I was missing Inktober so I invented my own challenge – the 5PM Drawing Challenge. Between 5 and 6pm I do at least one drawing of a minimum of 5 minutes and post it on my Instagram. So far I am on day 9 and just posted day 8, and here are the highlights so…
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Online Challenges – Inktober, Mynktober & Abstract Advent
I successfully completed Inktober in 2019 and took part in it’s weekly cousin, 52, and now have invented my own version, #MynkTober which is independent of Inktober and it’s corporate aspirations! I tend to do bigger pieces for these, and there’s a lot of overlap between my own daily challenge and the Quill, Ink and…
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Beginner’s Guide To Flex Pens
In 2020 a month before the world went mad and into lockdown, I got my first fountain pen. It was a JinHao, the top didn’t fit properly, it was heavy and the nib was good but as hard as nails. I really wanted a fountain pen version of my Zebra G dip pen. What would…
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The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*
*of the ones I have and can afford! Any comments saying ‘oh you didn’t try this ink’ and such pedantry will require an automatic forfeit of sending me that bottle of ink, for free. 😛 Not done a equipment review for quite a while – over the last few years I’ve been trying out carbon…