Pen and Ink: Pelikan M620 San Francisco with Montblanc Jonathan Swift

The next in line of my Pelikan City Series collection is the M620 San Francisco. This is a page I did in Thomas Pavitte's 1000 dots activity book, which I am a fan of. Obviously its depicting a tram in San Fransisco.

I like pairing this pen with this specific color so it seems because it's the 2nd time I have inked it recently and I reached for the same ink again:

I like that hint of moss green in the chocolate brown swirls of the pen. The green is also called a 'seaweed green' but to me it's a bit of a 'foggy green' which actually reminds me of San Francisco. I was lucky enough to visit this gorgeous city in 2007.

Someone asked if I have had the nib worked on, because it shows some line variation. This is actually the stock nib that came with the pen! Its fitted with an older medium nib and the nib width is just a little wider than the mediums now on the pelikans. I really love how this one writes.

A close up shot of the nib and of course on a page in my Metta Mediatation journal (which is getting almost full...)

Last week in pens and Ink I have hosted an Ink Giveaway and 3 people could win a 5ml sample of Potassium Lavender by Organics Studio (which has been discontinued) I randomly selected a few winners from my facebook page likes and the the three winners are:

Gnoe Graasland, TE Coke and Susan Theron

Please email me your address at miss.thundercat@gmail.com and I shall ship the ink samples to you asap.

Thank you everyone for participating! I might be doing more of these giveaways so keep an eye out for them :) 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Have a great week!

namasté

Querkles Coloring Adventures!

So another great activity book by Thomas Pavitte has been released over the summer and since I really enjoyed his 1000 dots activity books which I got last summer, I was pretty excited about this one!

It's a coloring book and it's based on 'paint by numbers' but more intricate. And it's called Querkles. I got the masterpieces book from the bookdepository.com and could not wait to get started.

I decided that it would be a great way to use up some of my fountain pen ink samples to color the pages with. I still have a lot from my past inkdrop subscription from the goulet pen company and from swaps with pen pals.

The first page is King Tut and thought a nice selection of browns would do the trick. I selected the colors from darkest (layer one) to lightest (layer 5).

The set up and see all the overlapping circles!

Layer one is done with Noodler's burma road brown

Layer two is done with Toucan Umber

Layer 3 is done with Pelikan Brown

Layer 4 is done with Noodler's Polar brown

The face becomes a lot more visible here which was a fun thing to discover.

The final layer is done with Noodler's Golden brown.

I was pretty impressed by this 'puzzle' and uncovering the whole picture by coloring it is awesome.

Though something bothered me (because I am OCD and nit picky maybe ;) and that is that not all circles were numbered and therefore not everything needed to be colored in. But I felt like experimenting further and distilled the Noodler's golden brown to a golden yellow color and colored in the remainder of the circles.

Which resulted in this:

You can see a bit of blending with the other inks but I think that gives it a more interesting effect. 

A close up

I am very pleased with the end result :) 

You can see the whole coloring process here.

My findings are that the paper in this book, like with the 1000 dots activity book, is very fountain pen ink friendly! There is no bleed through or ghosting and doesn't warp as much when using wet inks! 

So definitely a great experience to color with fountain pen inks in this book and am already excited to pick the colors for the next one in line.

If you like coloring and want something different than the coloring books that are already out there, definitely pick up a querkles coloring book :)

Thanks for stopping by!

namaste

Last day to enter the #MTdototdotgiveaway!

So, does this look fun to you?? 

If it does, and you want to try one of these dot to dot books by Thomas Pavitte,

 TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ENTER MY GIVEAWAY ON INSTAGRAM!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Namaste

A dot-to-dot giveaway on Instagram!

Hey all! 

I just wanted to share this giveaway which I have going on my Instagram. I really love Thomas Pavitte's 1000 dot-to-dot books and I wanted to celebrate the fact that I have over 1500+ followers there :) 

Win all the goodies on the picture:

•  a vintage sheaffer fountainpen with a fine nib (eyedropper convertable)
•  pipette and sillicone grease
• 7 different ink samples (#sailor yama dori, #pelikan edelstein mandarin, #jherbin stormy grey, #noodler's stockholm indigo blue, #privatereserve orange crush, #organicsstudio nickel, #Akkerman simplicities violet)
• Thomas Pavitte Icons #1000dots activity book

To win this complete package you need to:

•  follow my Instagram
•  regram this picture with the hashtag #MTdottodotgiveaway  
•  tag me @missthundercat in the picture

RULES:
Only one entry per person!
Private accounts do not qualify unless I follow you!
IG's used for contests only will be disqualified!
Compitition is open worldwide until May 31st! 

 Winner will be picked at random and announced shortly after May 31st. So that less than a a week from now... what are you wanting for? Go on and try your luck! :)

Namaste