FPN's PEN ART GALLERY

[Andrew_L]

Happy Easter!

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Those eggs are pretty awesome looking.

Last year a friend of mine had a workshop in her house on doing pysanky (which is something I'd wanted to learn to do for years). Unfortunately, I never got around to sealing them so the contents have probably long since gone bad, and mine got a little scorched in trying to get the wax off at the end. But at least I now know the basics of the process, even though I'm not REMOTELY as good at it as she is (it helped that I knew the basics of batik, which is a somewhat similar process).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ethernautrix]

Oh my gosh, those eggs! How charming and lovely!

[taimdala]

I apologize for the obsession, but I continue ...

 

https://images.vfl.ru/ii/1586625585/dd6e3f22/30186148.jpg

 

vtg Waterman's (w/glass cartrige) 50s, Diamine Bilberry, Double A(A4).

 

infos...

I think I know this picture: Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie _The Aviator_, right?

 

If it's not, it is still highly evocative of it and people from that period.

 

Nice work!!!

[Andrew_L]

On 4/20/2020 at 2:24 AM, ethernautrix said:

Oh my gosh, those eggs! How charming and lovely!

 

 

On 4/19/2020 at 10:59 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Those eggs are pretty awesome looking.

Last year a friend of mine had a workshop in her house on doing pysanky

 

 

Thank you very much!

 

Every year we traditionally prepare for the celebration of Easter. My wife bakes Paski and Kulichi, and I and my sons paint eggs. But this is not a traditional coloring technique, this is my interpretation with waterproof india inks that I have been using for the second year. Previously, we painted with wax and then colored with food dyes (historical traditionally it is beet juice and peel of onion).

 

These are painted eggs with a pysachok and wax\paraphyne (2017).

 

 

 

On 4/20/2020 at 7:51 AM, taimdala said:

I think I know this picture: Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie _The Aviator_, right?

 

Nice work!!!

 

Thank you!

Yes, that's him:)

It doesn’t look very similar, but fountain pen has its own characteristics, they cannot be fixed\corrected like a pencil.

[Andrew_L]

Conklin "Mark Twain" Crescent filler (modern), Diamine Red Dragon, Double A(A4).

 

http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/conklin-mark-twain-crescent-filler/

[Andrew_L]

Waterman Executive (Gold Corinth), Platinum Pigmented Brun Sepia, Double A(A4)

 

http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/waterman-executive-gold-corinth/

[Andrew_L]

Waterman Executive (Gold Corinth), Platinum Pigmented Brun Sepia, Double A(A4)

 

http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/celebrity-practice/

[Andrew_L]

Waterman Executive (Gold Corinth), Platinum Pigmented Brun Sepia, Double A(A4)

 

http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/celebrity-practice/

[Andrew_L]

Waterman Executive (Gold Corinth), Platinum Pigmented Brun Sepia, Double A(A4)

[Andrew_L]

The Lion and The Lamb

 

Pilot Capless VP, Montblanc Permanent Black, Canson Montval 185gsm A4.

[Andrew_L]

Quote

“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”

 

 

Waterman Executive (Gold Corinth), Platinum Pigmented Brun Sepia, Double A(A4)

 

More: http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/celebrity-practice/

[donnweinberg]

The art on this topic is truly amazing and wonderful. I use FPs, markers, Sharpies, Flairs, Q-tips, steel-nib pens, and glass pens with fountain pen ink and metallic and other non-FP inks to make what I call "Doodle Art." Here are three samples from the late 1990s:

 

 

I like lots of color, as you can see. Feel free to psychoanalyze.

[Astronymus]

Very cool.

[Andrew_L]

I was born in the USSR. As a child, I watched the cartoon "Casket with a Secret" and I really liked it (

). The last work reminded me very much of it Thanks!

[Andrew_L]

Matilda: Is life always so difficult, or is it just when you don't have a fountain pen?
Leon: Probably he should have bought it. Have you bought a fountain pen?(!!!)

 

(vtg. Waterman's 50s, vtg Sheaffer Skrip Blue-black inks, brush, Double A(A4))

 

http://lenskiy.org/2020/04/celebrity-practice/

[donnweinberg]

Great art and terrific likenesses, AndrewL.

[Andrew_L]

Thank you very much! Welcome!

[donnweinberg]

Andrew_L, I've been to Ukraine a few times. I was in Odessa in the late Spring of 1997, Kyiv twice, Lviv once, and Sambir (formerly Sambor when it was within Austria-Hungary), where my father's parents lived before moving to the U.S. in 1911-12. My father was born in the U.S. a few years later. Kyiv is very beautiful.

[donnweinberg]

Here are two more of my Doodle Art pieces, using mostly fountain pens and fountain pen inks, both completed in 1999: