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Cosmic Slug Dance - Kuretake Brush Pen Black Ink, Pentel Pocket Brush Pen with C. Robertson & Co. Prout's Brown Ink

28 January 2019
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Brush Pen Inks

Once, in the mid 90’s (?) while traveling, I bought a felt tipped “brush pen” and was really disappointed with it; probably because I had big expectations of what an item like that should be like. A few years later I stumbled on a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and was both enchanted and somewhat disappointed. If I remember right it had a few ink flow issues, or at least I thought it did, and it wasn’t that great on some of the watercolor papers I was carrying around at the time.

That said, a quick glance at some old sketch books shows that in the early 2000’s I went from mostly sketching with a pencil, to mostly sketching with a brush pen.

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Roasted - #inktober, #inktober2018

4 October 2018
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Inktober '18

Some time ago I stuck some images on Ello but as hardly any on my friends gave this artist, creator network a try – and as all these sites all are very time consuming – I pretty much gave up on it; besides an occasional visit.
Still, it was over there that I first noticed the Inktober drawing challenge. Looked like a fun idea! But that year I was too late, the next I forgot about it, and etc.. Until now…

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Crississippi Castle

12 June 2018
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Blues Rules '18 Some Sketches

Evening thunderstorms have been so common in the last weeks that it was pretty awesome that the Blues Rules festival happened “between the drops”, as they say in French. In fact it was sunny and surprisingly warm, the gods must have turned an approving eye!

There are enough photographers covering the scene theses days and my bag being heavy enough as it is, I left the camera at home and hoped to make a few sketches instead. And for better or worse that’s what I did…

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Comic of sorts about this years election

29 September 2016
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Almost November

Politics are not what I want to be thinking about, but yesterday as I looked at the mail this idea popped out, and I thought, “well that’s sort of funny..”, so for better or worse, here it is, smudges and all.

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Going to the beach

21 September 2016
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Summer Sketches

In July E & I spent some chill out time in the charming village of Staithes; in North Yorkshire UK. We had a great time walking along the coast, watching the tide, tasting the bitters and beachcombing.

Here are a few ink brush drawings from my sketchbook from that area and also some from after we got back. I’ve always used a Pental Pocket Brush Pen, which I like, but was curious to see it there were any alternatives. Towards the end of August I bought a Kuretake No. 50 which I really like too although it does seem to have some ink flow issues (almost too much ink in the brush at times)…

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A comic about trees?

14 February 2016
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Quick Ink Brush Drawing of Trees

It was too wet to go out to draw the forest which is what I was thinking of doing and I had already prepared a page with 4 rectangles so one thing led to another…

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