Himalayan pink salt. And a mix of peppercorns. Perspective errors, but I still like them. 🙂
Day 191 (Mon 7/10) salt and pepper
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Day 190 (Sun 7/9) random kitchen items
Not even a grouping… just several items… practicing randomness on a page. My favorite teacup, my huge cookie jar, a small wooden ladle, not to size or anything 🙂
Day 189 (sat 7/8) my watercolor kitchen window
Yep, that’s my little pot rack, over the window.
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)Â and was determined to just quick-sketch them in. This was a fun page to do! Â 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 186 (Wed July 5) Me and Wonder Woman
Something I read suggested writing pages of your name to play around with fonts and lettering. I like my name, but I need a better one with more letters to do this project justice.
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 184 (mon 7/3) More supplies :)
Day 183 (Sun 7/2) more watercolored supplies
Day 181 (Friday 6/30) watercolor mailbox
Another Peter Sheeler tutorial, and after doing it I noticed my own mailbox has a little of this quaint, rustic coloring as well. And basically the same growing thingies around it. (Mostly things we planted, but some that have arrived of their own accord) Maybe I’ll try mine sometime?
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