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Well the prompt this time was 'Mug' which we do have in profusion here. It's still cool enough - in fact we had nearly 12 mm of rain here overnight that the prospect of hot drinks still has definite appeal (although who am I kidding, we drink hot tea and coffee all year round).

I got @rdm to choose what he thought was the most interesting mug of the ones in the gaming room, and this one was the one he chose. It's one that followed him from his parents' houses to end up here eventually. He thinks it was obtained from some pottery down in the South West. It's been salt glazed, with a wax-resist design of dragonflies, and has a partner mug in the same glaze, with a more abstract design. It's seen a lot of mahjong, boardgames and also RPGs since I met rdm in 1987, and consequently it, over the years.

I had two new things to try out, my untried Van Diemens Ink August 2024 and my just arrived Pelikano Stardust. This pen arrived with an gratifyingly huuuuge cartridge filled with boring blue, so I emptied it and after a thoughtful struggle of which ink, put the August 2024 in.

And started drawing away, all done now, so here we are.

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Day 7 of #Inktober

Birmingham Pen Company Blue Ribbon

A very pleasant dark blue with just a hint of gray in it and a bit of shading. A very well behaved, if slightly wet, ink.

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Drawtober 7th. Bottlebrush Tree

It's Kambarang, our second Spring and the days are getting warmer. The defining characteristic of this season is the profusion of flowers, particularly wildflowers.

The bottlebrush trees are used in my area as street trees, and at the moment they are everywhere in floric profusion.

These native trees are highly popular with honeyeater birds, so we are being visited by Red Wattlebirds, Brown Honeyeaters, Singing Honeyeaters and New Holland Honeyeaters.

I sketched this tree outside for about ten minutes, but I got cold and went inside to finish it.

For those not familiar with the tree, the flowers are tube shaped masses of stamens.

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Day 6 of #Inktober

Noodler's North African Violet

It's a pleasant, if generic, purple. It's supposed to be water resistant, but I haven't tested that yet.

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Drawtober 6th "Toad-ish"

We don't really have toads where I live, so the next best thing for me is this little Motorbike Frog that I photographed in my garden some years ago, before neighbouring cats allowed to roam at night wiped them pretty much out. This was drawn with pen and ink that arrived today, courtesy of being informed about such things by my good friend @Steveg58 so thanks for the heads up. Larry Post is a dangerous, dangerous shop, that's all I know..

Motorbike frogs are fairly common around here, and their distinctive call does sound like a motorbike changing gears. As the year warms up now, if they were around, we'd be hearing them like we used to, but alas, we need to go further afield to one of the lakes to be sure of hearing them now.

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