Ink drawing, 1900
This is one of my grandfather's drawings, done as a 12-year old. He must have been pretty proud of his efforts! How he managed to lay such an even wash in watercolour is beyond me.
I don't know who drew the red lines. It looks like ball point pen. But then, ball point pens did not exist in 1900. Only the drawings done in 1900 have the red lines. The one drawing from 1901, doesn't.
The compass, btw, is mine. There was a time when I was able to draw very fine lines with the compass as well as the pen (the nib can be detached from the compass and attached to a ruling pen in order to draw straight lines) and Rapidographs! Sometimes, this was quite a tricky affair, especially when too much ink had been loaded. If there was not enough ink, it could run out before finishing a circle, or a line, and it was a bit of a pain to continue the line neatly with the new load of ink.
Ink drawing, 1900
This is one of my grandfather's drawings, done as a 12-year old. He must have been pretty proud of his efforts! How he managed to lay such an even wash in watercolour is beyond me.
I don't know who drew the red lines. It looks like ball point pen. But then, ball point pens did not exist in 1900. Only the drawings done in 1900 have the red lines. The one drawing from 1901, doesn't.
The compass, btw, is mine. There was a time when I was able to draw very fine lines with the compass as well as the pen (the nib can be detached from the compass and attached to a ruling pen in order to draw straight lines) and Rapidographs! Sometimes, this was quite a tricky affair, especially when too much ink had been loaded. If there was not enough ink, it could run out before finishing a circle, or a line, and it was a bit of a pain to continue the line neatly with the new load of ink.