These old leather gloves have seen lots of work: assembling chicken coops, building raised garden beds, pruning, bushes.... All those tasks have given them character. The wrinkles, creases, stains and folds tell the story of years of work. They deserve to be commemorated in a sketch, after checking to see that a colony of mice have not taken up residence.
I'm really enjoying my Noodler Ahab Flex pen. The flexible pen is more responsive to the kind of line I want. The Higgins non-waterproof india ink for fountain pen can be used on a dry watercolored surface or used with a waterbrush to make a shaded sketch, besides being excellent for line drawings. I am planning on purchasing some various kinds of permanent fountain pen ink to see how each works.
Old Leather Garden Gloves
Paper: Stirman-Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook 4"x6"
Media: Higgins Fountain Pen India Ink (non-waterproof) and Noodler Ahab Flex pen
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