Inktober 2024 - 24 Flower Garden

Inktober 2024 Challenge

24 Flower Garden

I used my refurbished technical pen to draw the flower free hand onto the blue green watercolor background.

I created ground and added the tall flowers, then the medium height ones then the shorter ones.

I added water color to some of the flowers knowing that the Quink ink is not permanent.  Not the best idea.

Live and learn.

Inktober 2024 - 23 Eiffel Tower

Inktober 2024 Challenge

23 Eiffel Tower

I used the Staedtler Technical Pen on Mixed Media 154lb paper.  I followed a tutorial on how to draw the tower.

Parker Quink blue black ink bought for the fountain pen.

The technical pen is a great addition to my tools.

Technical Pen Refurbished

I brought home a technical pen from the ReUse Centre a while back.  It did not write so it sat with other pens for quite a while. When I rediscovered it this week and I tested it again and still no marks, I was ready to chuck it.  I could see it was a good quality pen - the lid screwed on, Staedtler is a good brand, and the pen point was in good shape.  I decided to google to see if I could find out anything about the pen.

I found out that it was refillable. I figured out how to remove the pen point/cartridge assembly from the barrel. After soaking the pen point for about 30 minutes I managed to get the pen point assembly off. It just unscrewed from the ink cartridge. Very good!

The pen point assembly was soaked for another while until ink started dissolving from it into the water. I used my fine point syringe to push water through it until it ran clear. That done.

The ink in the cartridge was all dry and pretty stuck in there. I soaked it over a 24 hour period and slowly the some of the ink dissolved and some came out in tiny hard bits.  I was happy to start seeing through the cartridge.  I kept rinsing it out regularly and more ink came out.  After a while I could see a small mechanism in the bottom part of the cartridge. I was careful not to damage that.

Finally, it was clean.  I searched on line and one recommendation was fountain pen ink to refill it. That I had so I filled the cartridge with a fine tip syringe, screwed the pen point assembly back on, placed that back into the barrel and lo and behold it writes!

Came in handy for Inktober drawings!

Inktober 2024 - 04 Lake Doodle

Inktober 2024 Challenge - 04 - Lake Doodle.

With life getting in the way, I chose to do a simpler design today.

I am starting out with a piece of 5x7 Canson Fluid Mixed Media 154lb paper.

I chose a lake outline then just doodled around the shape until the outside space was filled in.

I used my new to me Creeks 'n Creeks fountain pen with Parker Quink Blue Black Ink to do all the lines in this piece.

I then filled in the lake with watercolor.  I wanted a bit of texture in the color. I went around the edge with a small brush to add the darker edge.