Happy Holidays & Best Wishes for the New Year!
I'm back! And while I will still be somewhat pokey about posting, I'll keep going until the end!
@AnasaziWrites - That's a great tip on
@Estefa and their expertise in Kurrent! Thanks! Also, I'm excited to see how your New Year's Calligraphy Goals come along. I only saw Köln Cathedral in person a few years ago, when I was in Germany for a research trip. It's enormous! Even taller than St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (although St. Peter's Basilica still has the larger footprint and overall volume, it isn't technically a cathedral), and so very beautiful! I'm flattered that you think my drawing does it justice.
@Aries M - I hope I'm not too late coming back to this! I hope you'll return to the thread once the new year excitement dies down too!
@Erica McPhee - I count the Flourish Forum as one of the things to feel grateful for in the new year! Thank you again for bringing us together! And thank you so much for your kind thoughts about my drawing of Köln Cathedral!
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Pick Me Up (scent & sheen) - smells (sort of) like coffee! A rich, saturated, warm dark brown with green sheen, bleeding out a gorgeous array of cocoas, salmons and pinks, with mint green haloing in the chromatography. A white-gold reaction to bleach, decent hairlines on the pointed pen script, and good definition on the broad-edge scripts.
What a lovely ink to draw with! Check out the tonal variation and chromatography here! Despite having a brown base, it is
not one of the "boring inks". I'm smitten! In consideration of the coffee themed/colored/scented ink, I did a drawing of the Kona coast - where my favorite coffee comes from. My aunt & uncle lived on the Hilo side of the Big Island, and it was always a special treat to get 100% pure Kona coffee when we visited them.