{"id":1885,"date":"2016-08-07T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2016-08-07T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:22:32","slug":"and-brush-lettering-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/and-brush-lettering-again\/","title":{"rendered":"And brush lettering again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1886\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/and-brush-lettering-again\/2016-08-06-brush-practice\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016-08-06-brush-practice\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;ZIG Cocoiro brush pens, losing ink and also being replenished with Pelikan 401 ink. On Strathmore Drawing 300, 11&amp;#8243; x 14&amp;#8243; pad.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1886\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"ZIG Cocoiro brush pens, losing ink and also being replenished with Pelikan 401 ink. On Strathmore Drawing 300, 11&quot; x 14&quot; pad.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-06-brush-practice.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZIG Cocoiro brush pens, the first pen losing ink, the second one with a full barrel of ink, and then the first one replenished with Pelikan 401 ink. On Strathmore Drawing 300, 11&#8243; x 14&#8243; pad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m not making much progress with brush lettering, so this will be the last post of brush lettering for awhile. Still, I&#8217;ve <em>enjoyed<\/em> it but I don&#8217;t see that I&#8217;m accomplishing much. I&#8217;ll be thinking about that in the meantime.<br \/>\nOne of the brush pens ran out of ink and I didn&#8217;t have a brush refill (having accidentally ordered the extra-fine tip, which is more like a flexible drawing point). So, using my jewelry-making-size pliers, I pulled off the brush tip &#8230; and the base of the brush tip &#8230; and the stem inside that &#8230; and the base that the stem fit into. Then I squirted some Pelian 401 ink into the barrel using a thick needle-less syringe that was perfect for the job. Then put it all back together and tried it out at the bottom of the page. Interesting. As I wrote, next time: <em>remember to wear rubber gloves<\/em>. My cuticles\u00a0will thank me for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not making much progress with brush lettering, so this will be the last post of brush lettering for awhile. Still, I&#8217;ve enjoyed it but I don&#8217;t see that I&#8217;m accomplishing much. I&#8217;ll be thinking about that in the meantime. One of the brush pens ran out of ink and I didn&#8217;t have a brush &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/and-brush-lettering-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And brush lettering again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,154],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering","tag-2016-daily-lettering","tag-brush"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-up","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}