Tag: Nib (pen)
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Portraits At The Pub 51: Greg
Sometimes I struggle in thes portraits sessions to either get a likeness or do the model justice – here it was both. I think I feel more pressure when it’s someone I want to do a good job and I find them interesting, quite often means I do the opposite. Some of these are not…
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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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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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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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Portraits At The Pub 15: Trudie
After a month away from Portraits At The Pub, it was a little scary – mostly because next to Trudie was the resident Lamb Skeleton (yes they have one) dressed in Halloween attire of a top hat and weirdly a heart cushion in their rib cage. I guess it’s the skeleton’s favourite time of year!…
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