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Looking good Denise! I just did a pastel pencil sketch of a meerkat
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As it's now September I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring so to speak with a sketch started on my walk today. I actually managed over the designated 10,000 steps but needed a cuppa and a sit-down (no gin available I'm afraid). Found some super cheap pens in 'The Works' 0.38mm - three for £1 so thought I'd try them out - not water resistant but I love a bargain. Edited
by Andrew Roles
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If not water-resistant or lightfast, just tuck them into your drawing pad and cover them - artists' notebooks and sketchbooks are often full of treasures, usually discovered by future generations: I live in hope that SOME of mine will come as a nice surprise.
I'm a gin-fiend, so felt your pain. Oh, and Gillian - love your Meerkat!
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“If not water-resistant or lightfast, just tuck them into your drawing pad and cover them - artists' notebooks and sketchbooks are often full of treasures, usually discovered by future generations: I live in hope that SOME of mine will come as a nice surprise. Robert Jones, NAPA on 01/09/2022 19:18:58” Thanks Robert , good point , well made. Probably a false economy. I’ll use them for shopping lists. I once bought some watercolour paper from the same shop; atrocious stuff.
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Thanks Robert! Lovely sketch Andrew even if pens aren’t lightfast etc . Think we all buy something’s occasionally thinking they were a bargain to discover they were not what we thought! Look forward to more sketches from you! Poorly dog here hence no sketch today but promise something tomorrow!
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While there are conflicting views about eye-strain, i.e. there are those who say you can't hurt your eyes by using them, I remember my first optician, a Dr Hill - a real doctor of medicine, unlike most opticians and optometrists; incidentally, a tiny man, under 5' tall, who rode a very large horse - we make 'em peculiar on the Isle of Wight. Anyway, coming to the point: he found out that I drew and painted, and said he used to work with "pen and ink obsessively: the very thing you shouldn't do": well, the common consensus was that Dr Hill was more than slighty eccentric, but he was a very good eye doctor; his advice, Gillian, was to take frequent rests and don't keep peering at the paper, especially with small and detailed drawings; advice that I've followed, on the whole: when my eyes start to ache, or I see rather more lines on the paper than are actually there, I stop for a bit. Eyes being an artist's principal asset, it's a good idea to take great care with them.
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I shouldn’t be looking at a screen now but I can’t sleep. I do think that you can overdo it by peering closely - you don’t realise you are doing it until you’ve overdone it! My eyes used to sting and the whites were pink - a little sign I think🤪😳. I don’t do such small or close work now so it doesn’t tend to happen…unless I read too much…or do this!