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Not my current pad, but the one I've most recently near finished. There's a couple of pages yet to do but I really want to timelapse them and that requires some focus time I've not had for a while and don't know when I'll get.
...However this and related pads are an example of where I am most happy, artistically: a Moleskine and a couple of fountain pens (in this case two Scriveiner EDC pens with paired Diamine inks - Gold Star and Vintage Copper).
Do I have a favourite? Not currently... I tend to match my pens to the ink that I intend to use in my current sketchbook (almost always mixing a light and dark colour ink but sometimes going for three or four different colours). The hardest thing is choosing what pad, pen and ink I intend to stick with for the month.
My FIRST pens, I think, were a school Parker pen and a box set of three Schaeffer calligraphy pens (which I still have :) ) but, again more recently, I discovered Lamy Safari pens, and then Esterbrook, and then Scriveiner, all of which I love for different reasons.
(and Galen Leather's yummy pen pouches :) )
Some pens are (ahem) rather expensive.... Or at least to me they are so I tend only to buy when they're on sale and, even then, only the cheaper versions (but tbh a Safari or Scriveiner EDC are a delight to me despite their relatively inexpensive price tags).
I have, however, drawn with a pen that was worth £38,000 which was an interesting experience :)
_The_LONDON_PEN_SHOW_Kercal_X_Karaca.mp4While drawing I had a minder behind me who started, slightly menacingly, with the words 'please do not get ink on the silver, the gold, the diamonds, the black diamonds and the emeralds'.
I drew VERY CAREFULLY indeed (while also holding a phone camera in my other hand. They were delighted with the picture at the end of the 10 minute session... but they'd looked a little unconfident at the start. Might have had an ink smudge on my nose or something at the time.
Off and on I draw with dip pens, including ones made of glass, weird metal shapes etc. Each has a different feel and format and each suitable for a particular mode or image in my mind, glass is a preference at the moment.
DEFINITELY not to be confused with tablet and phone styli which I also adore (a blog on that to come).
...and for fun? How about the twice a year London Pen Show (with other shows in Birmingham, Newcastle etc). One day I'm sincerely hoping to get to the Dutch Pen Show as well. I had a stand at this years March Pen Show which was a delight - but seriously impinged on my time in getting around the show floor, finding pens and inks and chatting to people. If I do a LPS again I need to do it with students I think. My favourite part of the show was talking to stall holders while drawing with their pens, almost all of which asked me if they could keep the artwork and share it, as if I was going to take it away with me :) It was my thanks to them for the loan of their pens and ink :)
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