Alice watches baseball
Posted: October 13, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alice, ink drawing, stillman & Birn 8 CommentsHappy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! I hope you are enjoying a relaxing long weekend with friends and family. We had our family turkey dinner yesterday and then retired to the tv room to digest and watch baseball.
Since Alice is not much of a baseball fan, I was able to draw her as she slept. But with every whoop, holler and groan from the fans in the room with her, she adjusted her position a little bit, and I kept on drawing. Sketched in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook (which I love for ink drawings) using a Platinum Carbon Desk Pen and Platinum Carbon ink.
Droopy bouquet
Posted: September 2, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bouquet sketch, Delta series, ink drawing, pen sketch, stillman & Birn 12 CommentsIn the over-stuffed bag of art supplies that we all received from generous sponsors at the Poznan symposium was this tiny Stillman & Birn Delta Series sketchbook. The Delta series contains thick ivory-coloured paper and the small size book is perfect for tucking into even the smallest bag that I carry on daily errands. It’s been an overly busy summer but I am trying to keep up the daily drawing habit, and there are no excuses when you always have the book with you. It took a couple of tries to find the right pen to use with this but the winner is a Pilot Juice Up 0.3 gel pen. The roller ball nib glides beautifully on this paper, and the fine tip is ideal for even the tiniest of flowers in my droopy bouquet.
