Day 221 (Wed Aug 9) drawn hummingbird
Tag: ink
Day 215 (Thurs Aug 3) sketch sketch sketch
Tried it three times. It DID go from worse to better, but still stinks. I like the third try pretty well, though. I’m happy with what I learned from the attempts.
Day 214 (wed Aug 2) sketching
Trying a quick sketch of ellis and mommy. They don’t look like this. But at least you can see it was a happy moment. I’ve tried it twice and will try a third time, later.
Day 188 (Fri 7/7) sketching kitchen tools
A few of my best loved kitchen tools. I’d like these sketches better if I’d used a pencil first, but I used my new Platinum Carbon Desk Fountain Pen (extra fine) and was determined to just quick-sketch them in. This was a fun page to do! I love this ink. And at under $10, the pen is worth a try. It uses Platinum Carbon ink cartridges, but the ink is available in a bottle as well. It’s a nice dark black, safe for fountain pens (or so I keep reading!), and waterproof!
Day 187 (Thurs 7/6) Carbon Ink by Platinum
Not much art today… but I love the new ink.
Day 185 (Tues July 4) Noodlers ink test on Pentalic watercolor paper
This page includes a couple of art supply sketches and a test of my fountain pen ink when water is applied. It turns out most fountain pen ink is not waterproof, or even water resistant, because properties that make an ink waterproof also make it likely to clog or even ruin a fountain pen. You can get a nice fountain pen for $25, but when some cost upwards or $300, I want to be sure I know a little about them.
I ordered Noodlers Heart of Darkness ink for my fountain pen because so many people who enjoy drawing with a fountain pen swear by it. I I like to watercolor over my ink so tested for waterproof properties. (only on two samples of paper). I found the HOD to be mostly water resistant on writing paper almost immediately, but I guess it just sits on the surface of this particular watercolor paper, because even 24 hours later it still bled. A lot. Disappointing. I’ll try it on another paper. Meanwhile, I’ve ordered another ink that I saw recommended by a youtube artist I follow.
Day 175 (sat 6/24) a little hound dog sketch
To go with yesterday’s sketch. (same supplies)
Her mouth is slightly off. Luckily, she won’t mind much!
Day 170 (Mon 6/19) Inky Cow sketch
I tried out some Noodler’s Heart of Darkness ink in a fountain pen they include with the bottle on a sort of zentangle-y cow sketch. I ordered it because I thought it was waterproof, or mostly waterproof, and was going to add color… but you can see what happened when I touched water to it. I’ll try letting some dry overnight and see if it still reacts the same way. I like the result, but I wanted a fountain pen I could use for my watercolor sketches. Oh well, back to Staedtler and uniball. They are great, so it’s all good. I just wanted to play around with line width a bit.
Day 167 (Fri 6/16) Another pen sketch or two
In my tiny Stillman & Birn. I did this with a tiny Pilot pen pencil combination I purchased specifically to go in my travel set. It works fine, but the ink isn’t as nice as the uniball pen I normally use.
Day 163 (Mon 6/12) ink sketches… girl swinging
Yep, that’s my granddaughter! She can push herself now, and is very pleased with that!
I really like these.
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