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  1. It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

    I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  2. It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

    I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  3. It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

    I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  4. It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

    I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  5. It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

    I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  6. A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  7. A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  8. A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  9. A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  10. A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

  11. I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

  12. I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

  13. I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

  14. I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

  15. I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

  16. Mermay the fourth for 2026.

    This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

    The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

    Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

  17. Mermay the fourth for 2026.

    This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

    The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

    Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

  18. Mermay the fourth for 2026.

    This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

    The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

    Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

  19. Mermay the fourth for 2026.

    This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

    The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

    Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

  20. Mermay the fourth for 2026.

    This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

    The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

    Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

    #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

  21. Had to go to the doc’s this morning because my ears have spent the last week being bozos (I’m fine, thankfully it’s just allergies). The view out the window is one I’ve never captured to my liking, but today’s is fun and I officially dig this one.

    Despite me being the only person in the waiting area and rows of empty seats behind me, twice a person chose to sit opposite and facing me, under the window, so that I was continually looking up at them and then down at my paper. Both of them had this funny moment of awareness, glancing up from their clipboards, when they realized I was in fact drawing the tree behind them, not them.

    Greg: It’s so cute! Wait, what is THAT?

    Me: Oh, that’s the jar of cotton balls in the exam room. Observe, how I have seamlessly blended the view of the gas station with the view of cotton balls.

    Greg: <nods> Obviously

    #PenAndInk #ArtJournal #UrbanSketching

  22. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  23. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  24. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  25. I love my little desk setup at home: space for my cute pen case, Hobonichi journal, fake grass pen stand, a cup of tea (with our Libraries Without Borders logo), Herbin ink and pencil sharpener 😻
    Ray of sunshine optional 🌞
    Makes you want to work, doesn’t it?
    #hobonichi #penandink #Herbin #tea #LibrariesWithoutBorders #BSF