Tag: Pilot (pen company)
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Portraits At The Pub 47: Angela and Martin
My friend Martin who is a regular at the is getting married next week, and so his fiancée Angela posed for us at Portraits At The Pub and they did a pose together at the end. It’s always nerve-wracking to draw someone you know – even more nerve-wracking to draw their betrothed, talk about pressure!…
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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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Jurassic Jaunt 3.1 – Uppy Downy Fail – White Nothe and Durdle Door
I got back from Jaunt 3 along the Jurassic Coast just over a month ago, so it’s about time I started the round-up posts. I’ve been putting this off, I think this time it will be a lot more informal and less long – planning five posts this time for the 42 pieces I did…
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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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Abstract Advent Week 3 + 2
Final week (plus 2 days) of Abstract Advent challenge, which I completed on Christmas Eve – it’s been a blast, writing this on Christmas Day – hope you all are having a good one however your celebrate it (or not). First up was Day 15, with a shape like a hole (rather than a head)…
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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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