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[Catpaws]

@Anrew_L You have done so much! I am inspired by how much art you make.

[Catpaws]

@Just J It is a rodent of undetermined lineage.

 

@jandrew Thank you! Very pretty bird!

 

Thank you all for the positive feedback🤗

[inkstainedruth]

4 hours ago, Andrew_L said:

Thank you!

I like it, it looks like watercolor pencils, like science icons.

I gave up on the Inktober challenge this year, I'm not feeling inspired.

As opposed to me, who just completely forgot about Inktober until a couple of days ago....  Too much "stürm und drang" in my life at the moment.  I did do it once a few years ago, but the last few years too much else was going on in my life.  

Ditto for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) -- I tried that once a few years ago, and the first few days was doing pretty well -- even with the Ohio Pen Show happening at the beginning of it.  But then, well, the rest of November happened....  I do much better with NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) because I'm not having to figure out carving time out of my day to write ~1700 words.... 

Ironically, a friend reposted a meme on FB this morning from about 8 years ago about writing haiku (the meme was images from an old Monty Python sketch).  So I wrote a haiku.  Admittedly, I find it hard to be as mimimalizing as haiku tends to be as a form (I much prefer tanka, which have those extra two final 7 syllable lines, and find that the 5-7-5-7-7 format makes for great stanzas in longer poems).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Just J]

7 hours ago, Catpaws said:

It is a rodent of undetermined lineage.

For those who didn't catch my joke, click on/roll over/whatever, & zoom in on that face & look at its eyes.  Uncanny? 

Okay, I'll hush. 

 

[Andrew_L]

17 hours ago, jandrew said:

4 pens and a waterbrush.

 

This right looks great. What kind of pen is this?

 

16 hours ago, Catpaws said:

how much art you make

 

Thanks, but not as much as needed))

[jandrew]

2 hours ago, Andrew_L said:

 

This right looks great. What kind of pen is this?

The one on the right is a vintage Universal Uniflow --- got it from Redeempens (aka: @penwash) last year. It is quite a lovely pen, both to look at and to write with.

[Catpaws]

13 hours ago, Just J said:

For those who didn't catch my joke, click on/roll over/whatever, & zoom in on that face & look at its eyes.  Uncanny? 

Okay, I'll hush. 

 

😂it was completely unintended

[Just J]

8 hours ago, Catpaws said:

😂it was completely unintended

Ah then, the best of all - serendipity. And here, how apropos!  😃

 

[Andrew_L]

GLORY TO ZSU!!!!!! (postcards)

 

(Pilot Capless VP w|custom UEF, Platinum Carbon Black, Watercolor Grain 150gsm A6)

 

http://lenskiy.org/2022/10/228days-of-war-glory-to-zsu-stoprussia/

 

[Andrew_L]

On 10/8/2022 at 4:07 PM, jandrew said:

vintage Universal Uniflow

 

Thank you, cool pen! I have a similar in design pen, only in blue and made in Europe(Germany) with an early Bock nib.

[Andrew_L]

(Pilot Custom 743 w|custom Kanwrite UltraFlex UEF, Montegrappa Black, Double A(A4))

[essayfaire]

5 hours ago, Andrew_L said:

(Pilot Custom 743 w|custom Kanwrite UltraFlex UEF, Montegrappa Black, Double A(A4))

Fabulous.  

[Andrew_L]

8 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Fabulous.

 

Thanks, but it was difficult. The nib turned out very wet, it is difficult to make thin lines on shading. It needs to be corrected a little.

[Frank C]

9 hours ago, Andrew_L said:

 

Thanks, but it was difficult. The nib turned out very wet, it is difficult to make thin lines on shading. It needs to be corrected a little.

I didn't see it until you mentioned it, but the fine lines are prominent. At the San Francisco Pen Show, a young woman was ahead of me in line to have Mike Masayama work on her pens. She was going to have him make her a needlepoint. She works as an illustrator and said that a needlepoint is essential for her work. I now understand what she meant. I like the drawing, part of the pretty woman series. 

[Andrew_L]

22 hours ago, Frank C said:

oung woman was ahead of me in line to have Mike Masayama work on her pens. She was going to have him make her a needlepoint.

 

I understand her very well. Until I myself learned how to make the nibs which I want, I looked anywhere for rare Saibi-Togi or UEF Platinum)). 

 

But I don't like the needlepoint, because it's unpleasant to draw/write with them, then 0.05 liners are better. The most comfortable are UEF 0.15-0.2, especially with a dry flow - at the same time is thin and pleasant to work.

[Andrew_L]

Serhiy Parkhomenko – ace pilot, captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died during a combat mission in the Gulyaipole on Zaporizhzhia area. 

 

(Sailor Profit Casual w|Zoom nib, vtg/ Waterman`s Luminouse Blue, Double A(A4))

 

Full review: http://lenskiy.org/2022/10/modern-sailor-profit-casual/

 

ps:  I wanted to try to make a “rough sketch”. I really like the minimalism style, but unfortunately I can’t learn it yet. I said to me “do not use the back side of the nib” when drawing, but I couldn’t, so, it turned out as usual)).

[Frank C]

1 hour ago, Andrew_L said:

 

I understand her very well. Until I myself learned how to make the nibs which I want, I looked anywhere for rare Saibi-Togi or UEF Platinum)). 

 

But I don't like the needlepoint, because it's unpleasant to draw/write with them, then 0.05 liners are better. The most comfortable are UEF 0.15-0.2, especially with a dry flow - at the same time is thin and pleasant to work.

Actually, she was asking for a needlepoint that wasn't too scratchy. She and Mike went back and forth several times until it was just right. She let me try it; it wrote a very fine line, but was pleasant to use. 

[Andrew_L]

56 minutes ago, Frank C said:

she was asking for a needlepoint that wasn't too scratchy.

 

Then she simply did not fully understand what she was asking (or wanting). I know what is a 0.1 mm needlepoint is(less is just impossible) - it physically cannot write smoothly, because it is like on dip nib. But 0.15-0.25mm can be smooth and write thinly, but an ordinary eye without a magnifying glass it is very difficult to distinguish where 0.15 and where 0.2mm :)) I named these nibs as UEF.

[Frank C]

15 minutes ago, Andrew_L said:

 

Then she simply did not fully understand what she was asking (or wanting). I know what is a 0.1 mm needlepoint is(less is just impossible) - it physically cannot write smoothly, because it is like on dip nib. But 0.15-0.25mm can be smooth and write thinly, but an ordinary eye without a magnifying glass it is very difficult to distinguish where 0.15 and where 0.2mm :)) I named these nibs as UEF.

Or I may have misunderstood her wishes; Mike Masayama was able to modify her pen to fit her desires.

 

This is the best comparison of nib sizes I'm aware of:

 

https://www.nibs.com/content/nib-tipping-sizes

 

To obtain these numbers, he measured the nibs with a micrometer. 

[Andrew_L]

1 hour ago, Frank C said:

This is the best comparison

 

Yeah)), agree, I also use this table, but from my own experience I can say that the Platinum UEFs I had never had 0.1mm, better about 0.2mm. I haven't tried Saibi-Togi, but I read somewhere that with regular use, they quickly become thicker than before, and firstly they write quite scratchy/crispy.