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    Photos from Our Garden

    A few of my blog readers know that I’ve been using pictures that I’ve taken to create my sketches. I’ve been wanting to share a few garden photos I’ve taken earlier this yea…

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    My Graphite Peony Sketches

    I knew this would happen to me. I’ve hit a bit of a roadblock with my watercolor painting. It started around the time I was filling my fountain pens for the first time this year. I was preppi…

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    The Cancer Pen Model – Zodiac Pen Company

    I first encountered Zodiac Pen Company on the last day of the local pen show I attended back in 2024. One of Bart’s pens caught my eye. I made a note to myself to add him to my wishlist for n…

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    Sketchbook Sketching

    My Funto journal was feeling a bit lonely sitting around my studio. I had a few blank pages left and I decided to fill it with some practice sketches. I decided to recreate another grape sketch to …

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    On a Watercolor Painting Roll – a Sewing Gnome

    I need to put a brief pause on my fountain pens and inky adventures. I was going through my blog queue and realized I forgot to publish this blog post. It was sitting in my drafts folder for four m…

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    My Mysterious Disappearing Fountain Pen Ink

    I was going through my fountain pen inky stash looking for an olive green color that I hadn’t used in a while. I was deciding between KWZ Prairie Green and Van Diemen’s Anna’s Hum…

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    In My Luchetti Sketchbook: Itoh Peony

    I was looking through my reference photos to get an idea of what to sketch next. I had painted my Rudbeckia flower on the left side of my two page spread and was looking for another flower to paint…

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    Colorverse & Lucky Star Pens Collaboration: Cosmic Violet

    I had originally started to write about this lovely inky color in my “pen show haul” blog post, but decided this lovely ink was unique and it deserved its own special blog post. While I…

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    My Pen Show Haul

    Update 08/15: I’ve updated this blog post to include a few findings from further tests and usage. A few of you will remember in my previous blog post that I got sidetracked on my way to the p…

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