Maaike learns to draw

Is outfitsky a thing yet?

I especially love the mercreature, how the sharp lines slowly fade into shadows, gorgeous

Such excellent and imaginative work!

In breaking news, we're just hearing that an extremist faction of artists who prefer the medium of watercolours - Just Stop Oils - have damaged a Shell petrol station.

I guess tomato soup does count as a water colour

How cute!

Thank you that's super helpful!

Yes I love them ! I did not know about the mineral spirits tip, I am going to try that, thank you! I did not know they worked on acrylic canvas? Thanks so much!

Much more dynamic, great job

Test for waterproof inks on general purpose paper from Clairefountaine. Write & Draw as well as Sketch Inks Lotte and Lilly don't work with alcohol based markers. Noodler's black does not work with anything.

< These are the results on general purpose paper from Clairefountaine. The results are similar to the thinner marker-paper from Canson.

I used a dip pen instead of fountain pen.

I tested Carbon Ink, Write & Draw and Noodler's in fountain pens.

Tests with different waterproof inks for fountain pen with different kinds of markers (alcohol and water based). Here on Canson XL Marker Layout-Marker-Paper. Write & Draw Inks from Octopus don't work with alkohol based Copic Ciao, but are good with water soluble EcoLine BrushPen and Winsor & Newton Water Color Marker. The same goes with general purpose paper from Clairefountain (other test picture). dto for Sketch Ink Lotte and Lilly from Rohre & KLinger. Noodler's Black does not work with any markers.

Well, here are the tests with general purpose paper and layout marker paper. I don't use markers, so I don't know if the quality of the marker paper is adequate.
Tested: Copic Ciao C-1 (alcohol-based), Ecoline BrushPen #580 and Winsor & Newton Water Color Marker (both water-soluble).
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Wow! You are a Rockstar! Amazing!

A drawing of Caroline Julian, the prosecutor in bones .

I was really happy with this drawing cause for once i did not overdo it

Alcohol markers on canson smooth mixed media paper #art #traditionalart

There used to be bargain bins full of VHS tapes of cartoons sold at grocery stores. I learned, as an adult, that I watched a lot of dubs of old Soviet animated movies from these bins as a kid, and they were gorgeous, particularly ones by Lev Atamanov. A lot of them are on YouTube!

Sorry i dont know if this answered your questions?

I love small Independent physical bookstores very much, but i am disabled and dont have the energy to try a few to see if they have the books i want, so i end up ordering way more often than i would like

I buy my books only from Europe, cause the import taxes are so high otherwise. Brexit significantly decreased the amount of books i buy , cause there is a lot less English language material available without import taxes.

I do like to buy all the non fiction books from authors i am friends with or acquainted with (i am an academic) to support them, as long as the prices are reasonable.

I dont really buy books based on reviews in newspapers or book influencers, cause serious book people tend to like a lot heavier darker books than i tend to enjoy, and i dont trust influencers to be impartial

I mostly buy books based on recommendations from friends or people on the internet who happen to describe it in a way that catches my interests (for example someone yesterday talked about "bureaucracy hopepunk" and that was so creative i now want to buy the book

Hahaha

On twitter around this time every year I spent a day boosting independent artists so people could buy stuff for the holidays. Bluesky's smaller, so reply to this with your OR someone you know's art, a link to buy it (VERY IMPORTANT) and a pic of the art! Hooray let's SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS!

Its fun and good stress relief!

So delicate

I totally get that! You could consider making a collage. Cutting put the parts you like and framing them together in one passe partout framing ?

Is she wearing pants under her art nouveau dress? I love the mixing of the timelines

The collection of all inks from write and draw by octopus

Only 600 euro, no Biggie

Dankje, aangenaam anja! Ik vind de potloden van caran d'ache super prettig, dus geniet ervan

But if anyone knows any inks for fountain pens that work with alcohol markers I will be eternally grateful

Ohhhh that's excellent to know