Creative 2017

C17: Day 8 – Lines! Lots of lines!

January 8, 2017

Today’s lines are much improved on previous attempts and I’m bordering on almost pleased with them! I started with the small brush and then took a leap and tried the bigger brush that came with the kit again. It behaved better now that I know I need to load it up with more ink. Still […]

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C17: Day 7 – More tiny triangles

January 7, 2017

Today was another pretty long session of little triangles, or as some of them look like, little feet. Starting to feel like my control over the brush is improving, but it’s still difficult to really keep the edges crisp. I was a bit lazy on grinding the ink, as you can see by how light […]

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C17: Day 6 – A new brush!

January 6, 2017

Today, I felt like I really learnt something! I found a smaller brush (on the right) that has roughly the same shape as the ones that came in the set, and I think I did a better job with the little triangles. They are smaller, but I think better formed. I also learnt that one cannot […]

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C17: Day 5 – Brushes

January 5, 2017

Day 5, pretty much like Day 4, and I am losing patience with these brushes. There’s just no way that this brush is going to give good results, given how it splits and doesn’t hold its shape. It’s also shedding bristles like they are going out of fashion. Tomorrow, I will have a look through […]

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C17: Day 4 – Triangles and lines

January 4, 2017

Welcome to Day 4 of my 2017 creative challenge. Today is Triangles and Lines Day, aka, Holy Fuck This Is Really Hard Day. I can’t imagine that today’s creative session was helped by a migraine which is, sadly, still ongoing as I write this. Early night tonight, that’s for sure. But nevertheless, I soldiered on […]

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C17: Day 3 – Triangles

January 3, 2017

Today’s session was spent making little triangles! I found a video on YouTube (below) and decided that it was as good a place to start as any. My triangles are variable, but I did feel like I was making some progress. Some triangles were easier than others, and it’s clear that it requires a lot of […]

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C17: Days 1 & 2 – Brush calligraphy

January 2, 2017

My year of being creative every day got off to a slightly time-shifted start. I sat down on New Years Eve for my first session of brush calligraphy, because I knew that yesterday I would spend literally all day in a car, driving from just north of Dallas to northern Illinois, and so it was. […]

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Wishing you a creative 2017

December 29, 2016

No doubt, 2016 has been a bit of a weird one, and it’s been hard to remember that fun things have happened in my life because of all the crap that’s gone on in the wider world. It’s been emotionally draining, and it’s far too easy to focus on exactly the wrong sort of thing […]

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