Tag: Sketchink
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Richmond Park 2: KillCat Corner, Lilies and Pink Sunglasses
Showing how my plein air use of media has broadened only since March, here is the second selection of work in Richmond Park. These works include pieces in black woody pencil, bright paint stick works, moody watercolour, dark fountain pen and ink, and inktense paints. Although as part one discussed, there is a desperation and…
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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Richmond Park 1: Spanker’s Hill and the Dinosaur Wood
I have mentioned a few times that I’ve been exploring other parts of Richmond Park than my usual haunts. Here are the first fruits of that labour – paintings and drawings of Spanker’s Hill and Treebox Wood (which I call the Dinosaur Wood because of the ancient fallen trees and general ‘out of time’ feeling…
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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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Empty Avenues in The Good Life
All these glamorous destinations – Greece, the Jurassic Coast – but as we come up to the Surbiton and the Seething Wells Festival it’s time to celebrate the Good Life with Tom and Barbara and yes, some goats. Surbiton is used as a stand-in for suburbia – even featured in Harry Potter – but usually…
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