Tag Archives: #HahnemühleNostalgie

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Gads I am glad I took my sketchbook with me when I last had our car smogged. The boredom and tedium of sitting, trying to be alert so I would move forward when they told me to was lifted a … Continue reading

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2025 1 20 Rump

IMO the flag should be flown upside down and at half-mast for the next four years because we are in distress as a nation.  I won’t be stopping these rants anytime soon and if I do, then you should all … Continue reading

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Home is Burning

Los Angeles is where I was born, at a hospital in Hollywood. I have two places I call home, the West side, which is burning, and Laguna Beach. I have been everywhere that is on fire, and have friends, and … Continue reading

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Inky Thots: Robert Oster’s GHOST

I am not usually a shimmer gurl, but I’ve found one that is soon to have its own pen!  I love Robert Oster Signature’s shimmer, GHOST! It has a silver-black shimmer, then goes grey leaning into purple-grey, and then into … Continue reading

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How Do I Use My Journals? What Do I Write About?

Facebook recently alerted me to an anniversary of 10 years using watercolors in a sketchbook.  As a result a friend asked me how many sketchbooks have I gone through in ten years.  After counting, I found it is between 6-8 … Continue reading

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How Many Sketchbooks in a Year?

Facebook recently alerted me to 10 years using watercolors in a sketchbook. I had to share that anniversary — it surprised me — and as a result I was asked how many sketchbooks have I gone through in ten years.  … Continue reading

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When a Creative is Cut Off from Social Media

This is a journal entry edited and expanded for you all to read; I edited it for readability. Instagram, and Facebook too, have been a game changer for me. I work full-time and run a business with Mitchell restoring/conserving various … Continue reading

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Cats: Yaman

PS.  Yaman had a skin issue; that is why the bandage. I’ve been getting questions. I hope this two-page watercolor of Yaman has finally taught me a lesson, and it has nothing to do with the quality of Hahnemühle’s Nostalgie … Continue reading

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ANTS: And a Fall!

As I said in an earlier post, in past, the ants have done a little bit of investigating, they have come in, walked about.  We gave them an offering up in the reception room of brown sugar water and they … Continue reading

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ANTS GO MARCHING!

Pleeeze excuse the photographs… It is next to impossible for an amateur like me to get good images of largely white paper!  So there is ghosting of shadow.  Oh well! We have an ant invasion of EPIC proportions. Because of … Continue reading

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Kill Winter with Orange

“KILL WINTER WITH ORANGE!” For those of you not involved in the fountain pen community, this is a rallying cry that begins in February, and many posts of orange pens are posted. I’ve been thinking about this concept in a … Continue reading

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Inky Thots: Robert Oster Australian Opal Grey

Robert Oster’s Australian Opal Grey ink is one of my favorite greys, leaning into turquoise and blue when touched with water. My delicate shell (that I have carried around since high school) was painted in a Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook with … Continue reading

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Favorite Grey Tee

I have a favorite grey tee shirt from Bass & Co that is as old as my marriage. It is on its last legs, and I am grieving.  I cannot find another one like it ANYWHERE and it is so … Continue reading

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An Opal Grey Face

He was looking down, and the bit of his face under the hat intriguing.  I used Robert Oster’s Australian Opal Grey ink, which was also a good match for his grey hair. ☾ Hahnemühle Bamboo Carnet de Voyage pad, Chesapeake … Continue reading

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Sleepy Izzee

Izzee at her most peaceful, asleep on a chair on a fuzzy. Usually she is a force of movement, always investigating, causing trouble, pushing where she doesn’t belong.  I would never characterize her a sweet — though she has her … Continue reading

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Chinese Food from Ling Garden

Friday nights we order from Ling Garden… They deliver to our studio and we take it home for dinner… It should be a standing order:  Everything medium hot,  Kung Pao Chicken, Sautéed String Bean with added carrots, Orange Flavored Chicken … Continue reading

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Our Grey Tabby Gibbs Modeled, 2

I think he  looks a bit like a pig in this one…. He is a handsome cat, not a pig! He did not want me to post this one. curled into his favorite chair, the Del Rey Monterey rocker. .Hahnemühle … Continue reading

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Gibbs (Grey Tabby Cat) Modeled, 1

HE DOES LOVE HIS FOOD… Kibble.  He does not get it all the time as he porks up too much on it. When he gets what he wants he always comes to rub against us to tell us how very … Continue reading

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