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Continue reading →: More Jinhao x159s…Please
Back in December of last year, I shared a blog post about my lovely Jinhao x159s. I started out with two of their basic pen colors that were readily available: a dark blue with gold trim and the basic black resin color with silver trim. I mentioned at that time,…
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Continue reading →: A Restoration Project in the Works
I’ve been absent from my blog with good reason. I’ve been busy restoring an old Singer Featherweight sewing machine I found on my recent travels. I found this vintage sewing machine at an antique shop. The sales lady was kind enough to take it out of its case, place it…
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Continue reading →: A Finished Page from My Art Journal
I finally got around to finishing my floral page in my art journal. In my last blog post I had created a helleborus flower as that was the only blooming flower in our garden. A few days later, additional flowers were blooming including miniature daffodils. I’ve been taking reference pictures…
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Continue reading →: A Simple Floral Sketch & Prompt
I’ve been writing my Jinhao fountain pens dry. Literally, I would run out of ink while in the middle of writing a sentence. My x159 pens are lovely wet writers and I’ve also been using them for creating my pen & ink sketches. My favorite pinky red ink color to…
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Continue reading →: Sketching Progress
I took my pencil sketch and using my permanent gray ink, I sketched over my pencil lines that I wanted to keep. In some areas I straightened out the previous broken lines I had drawn. I also added in more details where needed. After my permanent ink had dried on…



















