Tag: Parallel Pens
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Tales From The Riverbank 5: Two Sisters, Soliciting Swans and Ginger Bees
I came across a cache of old photos sang the Pet Shop Boys, and similarly I came across a cache of river bank images I never posted from 2021, and some new ones from 2022 that I’ve done before and after my trip. First up is this view of the Ginger Bees cafe from 2021, created…
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Portraits At The Pub 35: Marsha
Less happy with this portraits session unlike previous ones, not sure why. I like the woody pencil piece, and the abstract parts of this paint stick – the knees and chair specifically, but I do feel the parallel pen piece didn’t work – looks like she’s terrified…and the other paint stick piece is rather wonky.…
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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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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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5PM Challenge 107-128 Highlights
This has been a long time coming, since the 5PM Challenge fizzled out in July, although I posted several pieces during that period that were earmarked for this without the 5PM Challenge tag or number – especially Windy Stormy Day, River Blues and Windy Day and Evening Crane. But I restarted it in November, because…
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Common Tigers And Rare Towers
A bit of a random post this with a loose theme – these are all images either of commons or looking over common land or of towers. I went through a stage of going to Long Ditton, namely Stoke’s Field which despite the name and rebranding as a ‘nature reserve’ it’s actually a common. This…
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