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Just a quick update on the Los Angles pen show, It was great fun, Saw some fantastic pens, good folk and good venue.

Al in all a great trip, but the absolute highlight was to meet Amberlea and daughter, Their table was inky madness of the best kind. I wish I could have stayed longer but my parole expired on valentines day.

Thank you Amberlea, it was a wonderful experience,

Mark

 

Thank you for all your inky help!

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Looking blue!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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And now for something closer to home --an American icon, witnessed by the triple great-grandfather of Inky:

 

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And now for something closer to home --an American icon, witnessed by the triple great-grandfather of Inky:

 

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I fear his signature on the Declaration was done in Blue Ghost invisible ink, so no one realizes he was a signer. :)

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Interested in more great masterpieces ghosts? I have a few that I never uploaded...

 

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I think this is perhaps one of my favorite one yet! Especially given that the original is one of my most favorite paintings on the planet. I got to see it (and one of my OTHER favorite paintings, the Albrecht Dürer self portrait where he's sitting in the window seal looking all dandified), when I was on a trip to Spain in the summer of 1978 (a 1-credit drawing and painting course run by one of my painting professors) and got to see both paintings in the Prado in Madrid.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I think this is perhaps one of my favorite one yet! Especially given that the original is one of my most favorite paintings on the planet. I got to see it (and one of my OTHER favorite paintings, the Albrecht Dürer self portrait where he's sitting in the window seal looking all dandified), when I was on a trip to Spain in the summer of 1978 (a 1-credit drawing and painting course run by one of my painting professors) and got to see both paintings in the Prado in Madrid.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Oh, yes, Ruth! This is one of the great paintings of all time. If you remember all the different layers of reality and the opening of the wall between the viewer and the characters in the painting, it's mind-blowing! And the Prado is a place that all people should visit at least once in their life. Also in the Prado is Hieronymous Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights." I watched an enormous crowd discussing it and the experience was one of my most memorable of that trip to Spain. Glad you enjoyed this!

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I can see little miss Goldilocks getting ready to flounce off somewhere more interesting than standing for a portrait, while the artist is clearly thinking that he didn't charge nearly enough this time. The dog is bored.

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“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t.


And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”


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http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-MJrNPjJ/0/X2/Inky%20ESCHER-X2.jpg

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I can see little miss Goldilocks getting ready to flounce off somewhere more interesting than standing for a portrait, while the artist is clearly thinking that he didn't charge nearly enough this time. The dog is bored.

Actually it's more complicated than that. Velasquez, the artist, is really saying "Look at ME! I'm hanging out with the Royal Family! I'm so important that I can get away with painting myself into what's SUPPOSED to be a portrait of the Infanta and her attendants! Oh, yeah, and the King and Queen are standing in the doorway...." Okay, I'm paraphrasing Sister Wendy a bit here. ;)

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Actually it's more complicated than that. Velasquez, the artist, is really saying "Look at ME! I'm hanging out with the Royal Family! I'm so important that I can get away with painting myself into what's SUPPOSED to be a portrait of the Infanta and her attendants! Oh, yeah, and the King and Queen are standing in the doorway...." Okay, I'm paraphrasing Sister Wendy a bit here. ;)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Sounds like Sister Wendy! Imagine the King and Queens faces, when they saw the finished painting, and standing in front of it, they saw themselves reflected in a mirror in the background of the painting!

 

Have you ever heard of the legend that when the King Philip IV saw the painting, he picked up one of Velázquez's brushes, dipped it in red paint, and painted the Cross of the Order of Saint James (Santiago) on the painter's chest, indicating that he had been knighted. Not sure if it's true, but it's a fun story...

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http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-MJrNPjJ/0/X2/Inky%20ESCHER-X2.jpg

 

Perfection.

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Oh wow, looks like the piece was original this way. VERY nice.

 

 

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OH MY, these are wonderful.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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@Mookli: that's subtle! :thumbup:

 

 

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@Mookli: that's subtle! :thumbup:

 

 

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Actually it's more complicated than that. Velasquez, the artist, is really saying "Look at ME! I'm hanging out with the Royal Family! I'm so important that I can get away with painting myself into what's SUPPOSED to be a portrait of the Infanta and her attendants! Oh, yeah, and the King and Queen are standing in the doorway...." Okay, I'm paraphrasing Sister Wendy a bit here. ;)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I love Sister Wendy, haven't seen enough of her lately...

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“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t.


And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”


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