Benares

[Balaji]

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.

 

[Terri]

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.

 

[Rikard]

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.

 

[Sanlynn]

Well done! Looks like the new pen was an inspiration.

 

[Joy]

Very effective! I could never draw directly with pen.

 

[Terri]

Very effective! I could never draw directly with pen.

Me either. I like erasers - a lot.

The fact that he knocks these out as fast as he does is amazing to me!

 

[Balaji]

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.

 

[Balaji]

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.