No longer a Pen Show Virgin.  I’ve been to our little Portland Pen Show.
It was fun being in that geeky collecting environment.  Dealers were friendlier than I thought they would be, and it was so cool to be able to hold pens I want.  Mitchell bought me this lovely Jinhao that was completely reworked by a Canadian dealer so as to
make it a wonderful writing instrument.  Cobalt violet, amazingly beautiful.

Tried it out last night.  He inked it with a Diamine purple ink of some sort, and so,
grapes came to mind.  Watercolor painted in the “dark” late at night, a bit overworked.

Pentalic Aqua Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, Lamy Al-Star,
Platinum Preppie Pen, Noodler’s, De Atramentis Document, and Super5,
and Greenleaf & Blueberry, Sennelier, Holbein, QoR and Daniel Smith watercolors.

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