Tag: Fountain pen ink
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Portraits At The Pub 45: Daisy
Not so sure of the portraits from this session – it’s always difficult to get a good likeness, but then again it’s not always about likeness either – my favourite from this session looks nothing like Daisy – the technical drawing featured – she actually looked more like the fountain pen drawing on the right…
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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Portraits At The Pub 32: George & Julan
I have been really lazy with uploading my work here and over at Instagram – I have been working away, scanning and documenting it, just not posting it. Hence this is the portraits session from 2 weeks ago, with the first pose by Julan and then George for the rest of the session. The Julan…
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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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Bus Shelter series
Recently I have been increasingly drawing and painting the views from a bus shelter. It is a challenge as not many shelters are in picturesque places! I started doing this in 2019 and early 2020 just waiting for buses or hiding from the rain. This became rather more urgent and even poltiical in lockdown because…
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The Ethical Artist: being green & creative
Fairly recently I decided to stop using single-use plastic to create my artworks to be more green. This sounds quite easy, but in reality it’s quite hard since so much stuff arrives in plastic, and some things don’t exist in refillable form, so I have to hack things or work around them. Case in point…
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