Tuesday 25 August 2015

A Plethora of P's.

I am still enjoying my Derwent Sepia pens which I was given last week. Ecshelton was asking if I preferred the Derwent Graphik Line Markers or the Micron colour range. First of all I have to say that I am not a great fan of the Micron pens, simply because there is a sharp uncomfortable ridge just where I like to put my fingers when I hold the pen. From that point of view alone the Derwent Graphik Black and Sepia pens win hands down. They come in a variety of sizes and I prefer the tone of the Derwent Sepia pens, the Micron Sepia is a little dark in my opinion.



However when it comes to the coloured versions it is a slightly different story. The Derwent Graphik Coloured Line Markers only seem to come in size 0.5, which is a little large for me apart from blocking in. I don't know if the Micron Coloured pens come in smaller sizes but I only have the 0.5 size for these too. For colouring I prefer the Micron pens. The Derwent coloured pens has very gluppy ink which comes out in globules at times and at other times runs dry. It has a ball bearing in it and you have to shake it to get it going again, or press the tip and then a whole load of ink comes out:-( There are twenty colour choices in the range and have marvellous names for the colours, Billy for one of the blues, Rain for the purple, and Tickled for - yes you guessed it - the Pink lol.

So overall if I had to choose between them I would choose the Derwent Pens as they are so much more comfortable and I use the black and sepia ones more frequently than the coloured pens.

P is the letter of the week for SuzyMosh's New To Me Challenge. There is a plethora of P tangles to choose from, 3 pages on Tanglepatterns.com in fact! I have already used most of the official Zentangle® P patterns, the old favourites like Pokeroot/leaf, Purk, Pendrills, Pepper etc. All had to be left behind but still there were plenty of others to choose from. I chose just three, all of which are new to me, Paizol, Podz and Pippin. I shall use all of them again, but I didn't get Pippin quite right. I started with each pippin in a different place and then filled in, but i now realise it needed to begin in one place and circle outwards. I will know next time. This tile is a bit 'Meh', I would do it again but I must get on with other things today:-)


5 comments:

  1. I love your pop of green. I hadn't seen Derwent grafix pens before, but i know that coloured microns go right down to the 005 size.Hard to get but I have a pack of 01 sized coloured ones. IMO I think its easier to tangle in colour using staedlter triplus fineliners, but I don't do that very often. :)

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  2. thanks for the great intel YT!

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  3. Thanks for the pens intel. Nice little tile. Thanks for being part of the TNTM challenge this week!

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  4. Good to hear about the pens ... and I didn't realized Micron went small in color. Now of course that ridge will bother me - the one I never noticed before :) :) Nice tile ... put a little green in some Pippin "leaves" if you want it to pop more - just a suggestion :) :)

    ~ Diane Clancy
    http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2015/08/my-new-to-me-p-entry-for-suzymosh-challenges

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  5. fyi, the Micron Sepia color is a dark brown...the Micron Brown is a nice sepia. Go figure! I learned this after I bought a set of the Sepia and I wish I had the Brown, but I do have a few individual pens. Now I have a new pen to buy and try!

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