Tag: dip pen
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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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Portraits At The Pub 25 – Adam / Dylan
Another two weeks flies by and another portrait session, this time with the bearded and behatted Adam, a man after my own heart with the waistcoat, shirt and tie (sadly no kilt though), and a nod to the current events with the Ukraine-supporting coloured hankies. Even the pieces I had a bit of a disaster…
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Portraits At The Pub 22 – Steve
Likeness is always a struggle during the portrait sessions, as was last week’s Portraits At the Pub with Steve. I seemed to make a lot of drawings and only one (the paint stick one that was intened to be abstract) actually look like him. Close but no cigar (but we do have a Russian hat).…
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X-Series & Marine Abstracts
Following the lead of 2020’s Zebra Abstracts I did some large A1 garden abstracts last year using some (then new) FW Acrylic Inks – called the X-Series or X-Men series due to the prominent X in a circle but I don’t want to get sued by Marvel (and I really am not a fanboy of…
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Portraits at the Pub 17: Rick
Those with long memories might remember Rick – he’s posed for us at Portraits at the Pub before, only a month or so before the first lockdown in Feb 2020 – it was one of the last portrait sessions. And here he is again, this time very different from last time’s welding clothes to a…
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