From 2009. I have mentioned this before, but I have mentioned most things before: every time I look at my artwork from recent years, I cringe at how blah it appears, because it is from the period I was using felt-tip pens. Felt-tip pens are convenient. They greatly speed up the drawing process, a big plus in my book, and they are very portable. One of the best things about my job is, I can do it anywhere. However, as many times as I’ve done it, traveling with India ink and accouterment is always problematic. Felt-tip pens eliminate that concern nicely. However, the resulting drawing just isn’t the same. Not for me, anyway. About a year or so ago, I went back to the old dip pen method, and I am much happier with the finished product, although I’m always trying to do better.
157 responses to “Inking Aloud”
Ongoing Verizon hassles, with advice to clear everything, makes me forget handle. Until I see that bold faced Anonymous.
sand and Morphy, thank you both for your responses to my tablet/sd card query. I am comfortable with the touchscreen and stylus, having a year+ experience with the Note 5; but the sd card is outside my comfort zone at this point. I’ll go ahead with a new sd card in the replacement tablet. It may enable me to avoid a further problem, and it certainly can’t hurt to do so. Thanks again!
Anonymous, it might be a toaster, but it has a good sound system! And an aux plug where I can jack in my cellphone to play my Spotify playlist! Makes me look forward to long drives. The salesman I bought it from referred to it as the only Honda which could fit anybody and I believe it. It’s the most comfortable car I’ve driven since I had a 1988 Toyota Van.
I thought the toaster was a tongue wedged in cheek satire on a car carrying five, passing you so you could read the rear bumper sticker, and cry in your inadequate conveyance.
Sort of a 21st century version of Volvo, they’re boxy, but safe.
Geezer club members use wires to connect playlists. Glad you’re with us.
Smigz, I made a mistake leading with my story. My point came later, in the difference between apps and the data files they utilize.
Smigz, what I mean to say is I agree with your assessment. Performing the same actions with the same objects, usually produces similar results; no matter what the salesman hopes for. Perhaps looking at the individual pieces of the problem differently will lead to a better solution.
Do we have a Senior Citizen Center in the Village?
Hal is still playing with me, he put in Cemetery.
You know I have only dated two men in fifty years so I would say I don’t have time or inclination to bother with trying to catch up with my previous records.
Just not going to try any dating sites, I have to think if they accepted my very married husband that they also accept other women’s as well.
Funny, now that I look at it that way I seemed to have dated two married men unintentionally!
Jackie, just a strange conglomerations of forever young adults still attached to the world of last century. You know, the confused masses. So the nursery in one wing has a teleporter to the geriatrics center in the other wing.
The fact that HAL wants to add an elevator to the morgue is as disturbing as his movie character namesake.
Just unpacking a box that mixed my trendy ball caps with my trendy lingerie. Still thought I’d bought a Leopard or cat pattern, had, one of each, a cap and bra, about same sizes.
You know I always loved Fran Drescher. Same reason I love Dolly Parton. I can relate. Both funny, brazen, outrageous, smart and far more than a big rack and hair.
We scare off most men you know.
Your car is a good choice for you Mark. There is a car for each of us. No such thing as a one fits all in cars nor panty hose.
We now have Bullet, Trigger and Silver. All Good Guys rides except the dog. The dog was extraordinary dog.
When I see bullet away from weapons, I read Bullitt and think Steve McQueen. Another good guy, dealing with a damaged world in his own damaged way.
Character and man, different but similar struggles.
Our friends who own Elements dread the day when theirs are used up and must be replaced since Honda no longer makes them. They’re great vehicles for carrying around their large dogs or the stuff a woodworker needs, not so great if you need to put passengers in the back seat – unless it’s someone more agile than me 🙂
Grump alert: Why do Manufacturers in their Infinite Wisdom, end production of consumer favorites while continuing to pump out things we go :shrug: over?
They did that to Mercury Villager which had highest owner loyalty in minivans. They last too well and don’t get traded in, they keep being driven.
I feel bad for those who are my age and without a spouse. I am a very friendly person, but before I married I had the most difficult time getting the courage to ask a girl out. I tell my wife that I still do…. A nice personality trait for someone married 34 1/2 years.
Ruth Anne, you had shared a quote earlier, that phrase is going on my improvements list. It condenses very nicely, what I’ve recently implemented, again. With ranging effectiveness.
GR6, Van Allen is my friend. I enjoy the interwebs, but wouldn’t miss them. Still remember Dewey and his decimals, miss the smell of newsprint. Technology is fast but not always accurate, it has not made us paperless, rather increased our use of exotic materials. Some have to be taken from nature, others must be created as an ‘improvement’ or abomination of nature.
I guess I should clarify, I feel nature is at our disposal. I like that we can use natural material in new exciting ways. But putting it in mass production without solving the end of life problem of disposal is not good stewardship.
Our Village windows are so bright, they’ve attracted attention from Johns Deering and Newcombe in http://www.gocomics.com/zackhill/2017/01/04
Or maybe we’re just in the standard deviation of deviants.
Well, I thought “Bullet” sounded better than “Buttermilk” or “NellyBelle”.
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Also, I’m a dog guy.
We have had such mild temps this winter that I really didn’t need long sleeve shirts although I wear them when possible, BUT we have a good chance of some snowflakes Friday night or maybe Saturday morning. If a subway train on tracks runs into walls do you think that I will trust a car to drive itself?
Airplanes have had “autopilot” for years. Now why did I just have an image from the movie “Airplane” pop into mind?
I just read that, with pot now legal in a lot of areas, smoking too much can make you sick. Well duh man.