Tag: Nib
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Portraits At The Pub 52: Marian, Betty and Julian
Forgot to post these from last week, it’s not often we get to draw two people at once at Portraits At The Pub, it makes it a LOT harder, because you always get one person better than the other, one likeness will be closer than the other, or you spend too much time on one…
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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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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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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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