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| 9/13/12 fountain pen, Copic Multiliner SP pen, Hand Book sketchbook |
Despite the mostly cloudless sky and warm sunshine, so rare by
mid-September, the Lake City Farmer’s Market had a distinct note of
melancholy. Except for the woman with a megaphone encouraging shoppers to come
around the corner where the information booths were hiding, the market was
unusually quiet: By 4:15, the scheduled musician still hadn’t shown up for his
4 o’clock gig. Maybe it was just me who was melancholy.
Savoring a scoop of homemade chocolate ice cream from Half Pint Ice Cream, I sat in the shade to sketch the young woman I had just bought
the cup of decadence from. I had resisted that ice cream all summer, not for
the usual reasons but because I knew it would be difficult to hold and eat it while
also sketching. But I felt so bittersweet about the market and the end of
summer that I saw no point in resisting today. I had originally planned to add
watercolors to the sketch as I usually do, but then I noticed my ice cream was
getting soft.
Life is short, and so is summer. Sometimes eating ice cream
is more important than painting.
(Technical note: Once again, I started this sketch
with Noodler’s Bulletproof ink in my Lamy, but switched to a Copic Multiliner
SP because the Bulletproof was smearing all over the place. My bottle of Platinum Carbon – the champagne of inks! – is on its way!)
Nice sketch and emotive blog post.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Noodler's. It takes far too long to dry. I even did a somewhat scientific test comparing it to other inks and with several kinds of paper. Platinum Carbon won, hands down. The Noodler's can be found at UW Bookstore but the Platinum Carbon is hard to find. I have to mail (web) order it.