Pen week mmm, when I realized last week what this weeks theme was, I groaned out loud. I'm surprised you didn't hear me lol. This week turned out to be a good week though.
My kids are home from school for two weeks holiday and we've spent a fun week watching movies and playing games together. Even catching my son's head cold hasn't bothered me too much. Hopefully they will chase away the winter blues completely before they go back to school. My kids are great like that.
Pic one is of my gel pens that I use for journaling. I have two sets of seven colors that I bought just before we moved house a year ago.
I don't think I've used them this year at all though. I'm happy writing in my journal with a blue or black pen at the moment but I have no urge to sketch anything in there with the writing. I've just discovered that over the years I have either painted/sketched or taken photos. I don't seem to do both together. So if I'm working on a painting project I don't touch my camera and if like now I'm working on a photography project my art muse disappears. If I have no set projects on the go, I swing easily between the two without a thought. I have no idea why.
Pic two is of my daughter's pen that her Grandma brought her back from her last trip to Scotland to visit Great Grandma.
Pic three is of some of my Pitt Artist's pens. I like the sepia color and have this color pen in both fine and brush tips.
Pic four is of a group of pens that I have sketched with in the past. I did trials with various pens in my art journal to see which pens are water resistant, fade resistant etc. I like keeping a mixture of water resistant and non-water resistant pens around. Sometimes it's nice to 'paint' with water over a non-water resistant pen to add shading to a sketch and other times I prefer to use water color paints over the pen so don't want the pen to bleed.
Pic five is of my daughter's pen cup with her favorite four color pen sitting above the rest.
Pic six is of a pen I bought from Avon to fund-raise for breast cancer.
Pic seven is of my daughter's connector felt tip pens.
Next week is Red week.
Have a great week :)
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