Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary Wednesday, 2nd July 2008
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I’VE BEEN giving my right arm a bit of a rest for the last week but I’ve lurched back into action with this pen and watercolour artwork for the back cover map for the new revised edition of my Thornes Park booklet.
My last walks booklet was in black and white and I used a Rotring ArtPen for the
maps but as I was adding colour to this one I had to go for something waterproof
so, for the first time, this has been drawn with an Ackerman Pump Pen; an ingenious
design that allows you to use Indian ink and a regular dip pen nib in a fountain
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I’ve spent so long designing pages on the computer and I wanted a change from computer-
Link: Ackerman Pens