More Flex Pen Sketches

The brown ink (Lie de Thé) is from the Konrad; the black ink is Noodler's Black in the Ahab.

After opening up the first two channels on the ebonite feed of the Konrad, the pen is now über wet, which is a good thing with J. Herbin's Lie de Thé, which I find rather dry. I won't touch the feed on the Ahab, at least for now as the flow is just fine with Noodler's Black.
I've been slowly developing a loose round-hand script with these flex nibs—not a true copperplate script since it's too formal for everyday writing and anyway I tend to want to write far too fast for that—but something with a little style yet legible. It's getting there...

I finished the page from the previous post, en plein air. It was a beautiful, sunny May afternoon, so out to the park strode I, with the miniature W&N watercolor set, a water brush and the Ahab in hand. In the end it was just far too green out there; I was ineluctably overwhelmed by green. But over in one corner, I found a grizzled old tree and sketched the trunk then laid down a few washes over the waterproof ink. Apparently the caretakers had begun cutting off the upper trunk at some point, but I imagine someone came up and asked "What the hell you doin'?"