Tag: Lotte Sketchink

  • Beginner’s Guide To Flex Pens

    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…

  • The Ethical Artist: being green & creative

    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…

  • In The Garden

    In The Garden

    When the weather was better I did this large – 70x50cm, near A1 ink and watercolour piece, in two stages in the early evening, at about 2 hours each stage. This is a sequel of the other two night garden pieces, but this one is definitely and defiantly daytime! As I’ve said before I think…

  • River Man

    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…