Daisies - continues

While the more detailed daisy from yesterday could have been a stand-alone flower, I added a few others and some color to continue the picture.....probably one of those times when I went to far.  The flower below, one of the additions, would have worked as a stand-alone quick sketch.

Micron pen on 500 series Strathmore mixed media paper.  Color added with FM acrylic ink.  Click on image to enlarge. 

Below is a daisy from an earlier sketchbook that shares some of the same attributes as the daisy above.  Because both the pen and paper are different than in the image above, the technique, and end results, have a different look.  The daisy below appears much less controlled and "looser."  

I have really learned a lot from trying to sketch with a dip pen, and have the greatest respect for our ancestors, who had to depend on dip pens and quill pens as their primary writing and drawing tools. I encourage everyone to give a dip pen a try.  Because it has a different feel and end result, there is nothing else quite like it.  It may just be for you.......

Dip pen and black India ink on 500 series Strathmore printing paper, white.  Click on image to enlarge.