Tag: Flex nib
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Sunflowers, Irises and Sensory Gardens
Going full Van Gogh with this selection – I mean me? Painting Sunflowers and Irises? With my VG Standom? As i found they aren’t easy to paint or draw, but the real reason for painting and drawing these is that The Friends of Queen Promenade have stepped up and planted some amazing things on Queen’s…
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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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Online Life Drawing #4
The online life drawing and portrait sessions continue apace, although I have learned I work best at my own pace and at a later time than with everyone else – most of the time I actually take far less time than the 10-30 minutes usually assigned, sometimes I take more for a pose or image…
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River Man
I am breaking one of my rules which is to post 5PM Challenge works first over at my Instagram, and another that I also that I post them as a series in the Highlights posts but these drawings feel like they should be together, in fact they are from the same sketchbook. They all come…
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Life Drawing #71 – Daisy
Daisy is one of my favourite models, not only is she a great person to talk to, but also her poses are full of character and stretch us as artists. This life session was the best session in recent weeks because we had a model who felt as excited to be there as we were…
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Portraits At The Pub 12: Jules
A good session at Portraits At The Pub with Jules furthering my experiments with Diamine Registrar’s Ink, drawing with fountain pens and flex nibs in my dip pen. In fact this was the first outing of my ‘fude’ fountain pen, with a bent nib which you can see in the drawing above right. More dip-pen…
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