Benares

Balaji

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I recently went to a "Pen Exhibition" and bought myself four pens. Yesterday I tried out one of them - a flex pen - and this is the approximately 6" x 3.5" pen and ink result.

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Terrific sketch, as always, Balaji! Your pen work is inspiring.

Congrats on the new pens! I'm guessing the exhibition was a lot of fun for you. :)
 
Very nice indeed. It’s sort of liberating drawing with a pen. No possibility to erase. It actually makes me feel free in my mark making. Strange maybe.
What kind of flex did you get? I have only one. An old pelikan 400gn. Lovely pen.
 
Terri, Rikard, Sanlynn, and Joy...Thank you.

The pen exhibition was quite good. There were lots of stalls, many Indian and foreign brands, and it drew plenty of visitors. The pens that I got myself cost between ten and twenty dollars. I bought two Indian flex pens and two foreign made fude nib pens.

I started sketching directly in ink about sixteen years ago when someone, in an online community that I was part of, challenged all of us to do so.

And in the same community, another member, around the same time, challenged us to speed up our sketching. I tried to meet both challenges. I enjoy sketching directly in ink, and I try and do it most of the time. But I find that I enjoy the process of sketching and therefore I only sketch very quickly, once in a while.
 
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Very nice indeed. It’s sort of liberating drawing with a pen. No possibility to erase. It actually makes me feel free in my mark making. Strange maybe.
What kind of flex did you get? I have only one. An old pelikan 400gn. Lovely pen.

Very nice indeed. It’s sort of liberating drawing with a pen. No possibility to erase. It actually makes me feel free in my mark making. Strange maybe.
What kind of flex did you get? I have only one. An old pelikan 400gn. Lovely pen.
I bought myself a medium flex steel nib pen. The other choices were fine, and broad.
 
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