I used to feed from the original Noodler's Creaper pen...you just gently work it out of the pen. (While I was at it I deepened the feed groove slightly to make it feed better.)
The nib is from an M-86 Hero pen, a perfect fit. (The feed did not, though, so voila, Frankenpen!)
A good cleaning with Goulet's pen flush put everything in the mood to work well...
Here, you can see the lines of the feed, and the approximate position...you hold the nib and feed firmly in one hand and push it into the pen. Don't force it, but seat it well.
You can see the position and the bent nib well below...
And the pen in action!
Hero pens are available online (though the M-86 is hard to find, perhaps on eBay last time I checked); it looks as if an 8-Horses Hero might fit too, but I have yet to try one. (And ya know, they work just fine in the pen body they come in, they're just a bit heavy for me!)
A review of the M-86 is here--you can see photos here too. It's a bit awkward to use and the cap doesn't fit well when posted--it unbalances the pen but it has a LOVELY nib, hence my conversion!
I usually pick up my Noodler's Creapers from Gouletpens.com--they've got a huge selection of colors, too! (No, I don't work for Goulet or get a cut from them--they're just terrific people to work with, so I like to spread the word!)
Alas, I don't know about converting any of the other pens out there--I'm so happy with this one!
Again, these two posts are in answer to correspondent Liz Steel's question about my pen hack in her wonderful series on Fountain Pens for Sketching--don't miss it!
Our dear friend and book contributor Liz Steel has been doing a wonderfully helpful series on her blog on Fountain Pens for Sketching, on Tuesdays and Thursdays--don't miss it!
She asked me about my Noodler's Creaper conversion to a bent-nib
calligraphy pen, and though I've mentioned it in passing, here, I really
didn't say much about it...so here's Part One, how I did it, and why! I love that
pen...lightweight, versatile, handy and fun!
The bent-nib pens are great fun , once you learn how to hold them...this is from my YouTube video that shows a number of ways to use them.
Actually, it's Chinese, in this case, but oh well...
Our community center after a fire, with my Hero pen...
NICE variation for the trees...
And oops, sorry, Blogger's being weird, so I'm having to do this in two parts...
More or less, anyway...life has been more than full, and mostly good,
and satisfying, though with it's fair share of pain as well.
What
fills me today is being ready, finally, to start working on a new
class. More than likely, interactive again, after all this time. Those
are time-consuming and exhausting, but this is something I want to
connect with, personally. Connect with the students, personally.
And yes, it WILL focus on journaling.
It will grow out of this place--a journey begun, for me, years ago in the 70s, really.
It's time.
This is what I wrote on my Facebook page this morning:
"Someone flipped a switch in my brain. There WILL be a new class
upcoming, maybe two of them, I've been writing for 2 hours and ideas
just keep flowing. I love this part of what I do!
This is a class I thought of doing a couple of years ago, but life--and death--got in the way.
It's time.
It will TAKE some time to pull it together, but it feels good to be so full of energy and ideas."
And I've been writing down thoughts, quotes, ideas, and plans ever since.
It
will be personal. It will be DIFFERENT. I'm not even sure where it
will take place, yet, but most likely on my old familiar Blogger.
I'm not sure what to call it, yet..."Meaning-full Journaling" popped to the forefront this morning.
But
I am confident it WILL happen. It feels right. I am full of a serene
kind of excitement, if that isn't too much of a contradiction in terms.
I've been faithfully attending life drawing sessions on Wednesday nights for almost four years now. A few weeks ago our model didn't show up so we took turns posing for one another. The sketch on the left is one I did of our group's mentor and the sketch on the right is one she did of me. She's going to be 93 years old next month and is amazing!
Not sure how this works, but someone reported our blog was there and needed claiming. So...I did.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Our family looks forward to going to the county fair every year. It makes it that much sweeter when we're able to have little ones along with us. This year we had three little girls and the one I sketched in my journal, Adelaide, was so thrilled to be able to go into the stall with the palomino pony. Her face just glowed!
