Alice, this way and that

Alice is a bit like me during hockey playoffs. There is too much tension in the tv room so she tunes out. I like to think that she is listening to the play-by-play and imagining the game in her mind. When I draw her, I try not to use good sketchbook paper because I have to start the drawings again and again until she falls into a deep sleep and stops moving around. For last night’s drawings I used a small Prism Studio sketchbook that is filled with smooth, cream-coloured paper. Great for ink drawings.

As for me during the playoffs, I find activities that are tv-room-adjacent. Like Alice, I listen to the game but do other things at the same time. Last night’s adjacent activity was cleaning my fountain pens. I think that I had recently used some Platinum Carbon ink that was old and full of sediment. I didn’t realize it when I filled the pens but they clogged almost immediately and required a very good rinsing before I refilled them with a newer and fresher De Atramentis ink. And to all you Buffalo fans out there, congrats on that win.