Tag: filter beds
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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…
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Mynktober / Inktober Day 17-24
I forgot how crazy it is, running to keep still around week 2-3 of this Mynktober/Inktober challenge. I think I am coping better with it this year, having had much more experience. There is a feeling that you can’t really finish anything but that’s not the point. The point for me is to challenge yourself…
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Filter Beds and Bicycles
Since I last visited the Filter Beds, I’ve sold the Moon piece – thanks Linda, it’s off to it’s new home, and a lot has happened….July feels like years ago! But despite still banning the river it’s allowed as a subject and I wander by there regularly. There has been concern locally about the Filter…
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Deep Water Deep Night
Ch-ch-ch-changes! I have been changing my process with night pieces…usually I put the ink down first and wait for it to dry – or not – and then lay the watercolour down. These are the opposite, and I think the ink and the etchr pads give it a totally different feel. Grainier and blurrier, more…
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Filter Bed Drawings
Since Inktober I’ve been ramping up the daily drawing (with a new challenge I will post about shortly) but this has a knock-on effect with working generally. I’ve been continuing the experimentation with white on black as part of the Dark Series (someone on Instagram called it ready for ‘Dark Mode’ which I might nick),…
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Towerland Triptych
And now the final (for now) part of the Towers series, the Triptych I originally planned and got rather waylaid by the last one. Been working on this a long time it seems strange to finally post it. Of all my paintings this is probably the most representational. It’s funny, my representational work is getting…
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