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Wrap up March ’24
In the month of March I actually had a lot of fun with fountain pens. There was a lot going on in fountain pen world. I started testing some pens again and I paid a lot of attention to reviews. Filling in my free time, balancing between drawing, sketching, testing…
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Eight pen questions
There is currently a topic going around on the internet that relates to answering eight questions about fountain pens. I saw this appear on youtube, among other things, and found it interesting to contribute to this myself. Feel free to search for yourself under the hashtag #eightpenquestions. I’m adding some…
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At the top, Montblanc
From my younger years I have always been interested in fountain pens. It is actually only from the end of 2019 that I really started collecting fountain pens as a hobby. When you start a hobby, everything is new and it’s a real voyage of discovery. I have to admit…
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Drawing challenge, current situation
It’s been almost a month since I posted an update of my drawing challenge. In the meantime, I have not been idle and have managed to follow my planned schedule, and I’m still going strong. At this moment I just finished drawing 227, almost a quarter of my goal :-)🏁…
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KAWECO Special brass
Today I made time to do a pen swap. My Kaweco Special Brass will be replaced by the TWSBI VAC700 R. Time to take a closer look at the brassy thing. And off we go… For the impatient: link to my ready-to-ink TWSBI VAC 700 R. Curious about the brass…
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Man in the garden
Today I did again a new watercolour sketch project. The subject is ‘greenery’ in the broadest sense of the word. I learned to make the green tones by mixing blue and yellow. More blue for the shadow and more yellow for the light parts of the sketch. I saw this…
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Swap Lamy Vista – BENU Chameleon
For this weekly pen swap I just replaced my Lamy Vista with the BENU Chameleon. Is the Lamy Vista a stranger amongst the other Lamy’s? Since February 2020, I am the owner of a Lamy Vista. In the word of fountain pens, Lamy is a big player from Germany, so…
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Sketching – creating mood
Today I finally made some time to make a watercolour sketch. On Skillshare I followed another video by Toby Haseler. In short, he takes the basic steps to achieve a satisfactory result, resulting in achieving a certain mood in a sketch. The emphasis is on simplicity and on working layer…
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Skulls and roses…BENU
At the beginning of January I announced that my first new fountain pen for this year was a fact. That is to say, she was ordered but temporarily out of stock. I also wanted to keep it a bit of a surprise of what I had ordered exactly… In the…
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Wrap up February ’24
Every year February flies by quickly, luckily this year is a leap year so we have an extra day to pursue our goals. Also in February I tried to knit a sequel to my good start in January. I am very motivated to blog new posts about my experiences with…
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