More drawings

 Ever since I bought two Fude pens - the ones with the nibs turned up at the end - and a brush pen, I have been playing with ink, carbon pencil, and conté crayon drawings - and, hitting the wallet again, I bought some torchon watercolour paper from Hahnemühle UK - which is as good as I remember it being when I last used it, and enabled me to finish a small watercolour.

Unlike Arches rough, which I have been using, it doesn't guzzle the water as though it were suffering the devil's own thirst.  Try it - Arches is a good paper, but I don't think I've produced one good painting on it. 

It is I think very true that for every watercolour painter - not my primary medium, be it said - there's a different paper to suit their work; I've got on with Bockingford, The Langton, Canson, Saunders Waterford; not with Arches - I think I'll stay loyal to Hahnemühle (especially now I've learned how to insert the Umlaut - Alt 0252, if you're interested....

Here's a selection - photos could be better, a bit difficult to take 'em outside at the moment: dodging deluges...  The middle drawing was, I thought, suitable for Hallow'een.  

 Gatehouse

I've drawn this before, and painted it - but have lost the painting.  Probably as well, it wasn't that good.

However, drawn to it again, I've drawn it again .... as it were.  Mostly pen and ink, with bits of black and white conté crayon.

 GOODBYE, FACEBOOK/META!

I left Twitter, now X, long before Elon Musk took it over, and miss it not one little bit.

However, while I may miss Facebook/Meta slightly more - initially - I'm leaving both of my accounts there (once I've worked out how to get right of them).

You will still be able to contact me through this blog if you like, but even if you manage to get a message posted on Facebook, I won't see it.  My email address is: robertphillipjones.napa@gmail.com.