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One Week 100 People 2024 Day 6
A long tiring day with two vet visits meant that I had precious little time to sketch. Got up to 60, and sort of them came out surprisingly well. As expected, with my injury and the way this week is...
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One Week 100 People 2024 Day 7
Had a packed day today so only a few minutes to sketch, but all of today’s sketches were done from live subjects. I apologise for the potato quality photo
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One Week 100 People 2024 Day 8 (Final Day)
So I was sick, which made sketching impossible for a few days. I’m still sick but I’m slightly better, so I sat down and powered through the rest of the missing sketches. As I mentioned last time...
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On Reading Difficult Books
Is there a book that you want to read but scares you? It’s too long, or too technically demanding, or its subject matter is challenging — is there such a book on your virtual or physical bookshelf? I...
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March 2024 in Reading
I read four books in March (and started reading Paul Auster’s mammoth of a book 4321). Three of them were very good (Prospero’s Cell, The Sisters Brothers and Blood) and one that was a bit of a...
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March 2024 in Pens and Paper
With One Week 100 People I’ve been using my fountain pens much more to sketch with, and I fell in love with them again as sketching tools. There’s something about the expressiveness of the line that...
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Quick Greenwich Sketch
Still travelling. This one is a 10 minute sketch of the herb garden in Greenwich park, London. Paper is a Cass Art notebook with non watercolour paper that held up surprisingly well.
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London sketches
These two sketches were both done on the soft covered vegan Italian made Cass Art sketchbook. It has recycled paper inside which doesn’t look like or behave like recycled paper. I sketched this in 3-4...
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BIGiDESIGN USA Fountain EDC Review
I’m a fan of Big Idea Design (BIGiDESIGN) and have been for years. I’ve supported many of their kickstarters, and they make some of my favourite pens and I have reviewed quite a few of them: Ti Arto...
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Quick sketch: Guided architecture walk
Used a Uniball pin 0.8 fineliner and three Stabilo Boss highlighters in their new colour range on a Cass Art recycled paper sketchbook. Yes the paper is ivory and the highlighters are weird.
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Quick sketch: New sculpture
Am I starting a new sketch journaling habit? Too early to tell. Meanwhile, I’m having fun teaching myself to sketch fast and loose. Cheap Cass Art sketchbook, Uniball Pin 0.8 and watercolours The...
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Quick sketch: Joe
I want to live like him if I ever get to live to my 90s. Uni-ball pin 0.8 fineliner
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May 2024 Currently Inked Pens
April was a travel month which meant that I cleaned out all of my fountain pens apart from the Big Idea Design Fountain EDC that I took with me on my travels. So in the beginning of May I inked up...
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Sketching with Iron Gall Fountain Pen Ink: Rohrer and Kilngner Ebony
I have recently purchased the Rohrer and Klingner limited edition Ebony iron gall ink, and I’ve filled one of my Lamy Safaris with it. While iron gall fountain pen ink can be corrosive to pens, and it...
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Diamine Purple Edition Inks
The 2023 Diamine Inkvent inks are now available in their gorgeous, 50ml glass bottle version – the Diamine Purple Edition inks. You can read about the 2023 Diamine Inkvent inks here, and you can...
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2024 Planning Update: The 13 Week Year
Back in January I wrote about trying a new long term planning system that isn’t the Theme System or theme based, and isn’t yearly goal based, but rather is based on breaking the year into four 13 week...
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Morning sketch
It was blistering hot so this took less than 5 minutes. The Drehgriffel pencil sketch was just a doodle I made during a boring meeting.
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Quick Update – Cats and Shoulders
I’ve had a rough few weeks, which is why there’s been a dearth of posts. At first I was sick, then I found out that my beloved cat has a tumour (as yet to be determined if it’s benign or malignant,...
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Planning Update – How I Plan a 13 Week Year
This is the second post on this topic. For an explanation on the 13 week year read this post. As life tends to constantly throw curveballs at me, planning ahead in short bursts has proven to be...
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