Got almost to the end of the day without doing ANY art. So I grabbed the piece of kitty scribbling I started the other night and carried on with it. Sparta was mooching around on MY chair so I did a few scribbles of her and then just played with my old-fashioned dip pen and Indian ink, enjoying the scratchiness of the flexible nib across the heavily textured Bockingford paper. It’s so unpredicatable, unlike the Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens I normally use which are smooth and consistent.
And here’s the food porn – freshly baked elderflower shortbread made with our home-made elderflower cordial. I used 4 ounces of plain flour, 2 ounces of white Spelt flour, 4 ounces of softened butter, 2 ounces of castor sugar and three teaspoons of elderflower cordial, all squished together and rolled into 16 little balls and squidged onto a baking tray and baked at Gas mark 3 for about 12 minutes.
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This is interesting and I love the sketch. You have found a great dynamic in this page of pen marks.
Thanks, I enjoyed just getting into the flow of it and not having to try and draw something in front of me
I’ve just started using a dipping pen and love the contrast to the fine liners. Took a bit of getting used to though.
It does! I kept trying to stop it being scratchy until I ealised it was supposed to be like that! Now I go with the flow.
Love the sketches Rosie and the cookies look scrummy. Ok, what’s level 3 on the gas? Approx temp in C or F? Or do you know?
325F or 170C – are you going to try them?
Yep, but I need to modify it more to be gluten free. So they won’t look as beautiful as yours.
Ah yes, Spelt isn’t gluten free. What will you use?
oooooooooooo mmmmmmmmmmmm yum
I don’t eat them though 🙂
It’s cool how well the cats stand out through the contrast of detail levels. I’ve never tried bockingford paper, but I’ve seen it in a catalog before. 🙂
I don’t normally use it because it’s extremely white, but this was a cast-off and I coloured it with a tea bag before I started.