
After drawing all those bottles of ink I thought that it was time for a change. But it’s drawn and coloured in inks.
Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998

After drawing all those bottles of ink I thought that it was time for a change. But it’s drawn and coloured in inks.

A random act of inkiness, so inky that I’ve photographed it rather than scanned it as the Winsor & Newton vermillion and Pelikan Special Blue will take a while to dry. Drawn with a scratchy dip pen with De Atramentis Document Ink Black.

Have you noticed that in each random composition there are three drawing inks banded together and one stamp-pad ink lurking in the background?

Going back to dip pen and ink – in this case De Atramentis – and watercolour for this drawing of my Lowe Alpine haversack and Merrell trainers.