Pen, from the Latin for “feather”
Sketched more birds today, mostly trying to learn to recognize the differences between Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s hawks. They look so alike!
After some poor sketches, I switched to a new inexpensive fountain pen I got as a sketching tool: a Gullor 616 Iridium. It’s similar to the old Parker pens my grandparents kept in their writing desk. I filled it with some new Pelikan 4001 Brillant-Schwarz ink I got at Zandbroz (a local Sioux Falls gem, IYKYK) and tried a quick sketch of a belted kingfisher I photographed two weeks ago down by the river. Quite happy with how the ink flows, so this could be one of my new sketching tools.
