{"id":337,"date":"2014-10-01T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=337"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:03:33","slug":"inktober-2014-1-quick-doodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/inktober-2014-1-quick-doodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Inktober 2014-1 \u2014 Quick Doodles"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Inktober

Hippo and Ink bottle on cool fibrous paper<\/p><\/div>\n

I was given a new ink pen in a *beautiful* wooden box to hold pens, nibs, ink, for our anniversary. Just in time for Inktober! Did several small doodles on various papers on Day 1. These two are a scrap of some handmade (maybe) rice (maybe) old-ivory-colored paper.<\/p>\n

The black “writing ink” that came with the pen worked well once I changed to one of my nibs. It worked better on the handmade paper than on regular sketch paper.<\/p>\n

The Parker reddish ink worked very well on that sketch book paper but not so well on the handmade paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was given a new ink pen in a *beautiful* wooden box to hold pens, nibs, ink, for our anniversary. Just in time for Inktober! Did several small doodles on various papers on Day 1. These two are a scrap of some handmade (maybe) rice (maybe) old-ivory-colored paper. The black… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,94],"tags":[230,17,229],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","tag-hippo","tag-ink","tag-inktober"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/inktober2014-001_web.jpg?fit=854%2C321&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-5r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1570,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/inktober-3-beastie-in-autumn\/","url_meta":{"origin":337,"position":0},"title":"Inktober 3: Beastie in autumn","author":"Kir","date":"5 October 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I tried using a dip pen to outline this one, and add detail. 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