This sketch is a special one to me. I have wanted to do this for some time but would feel a bit squeamish attempting it until now.
This huge house was split into three separate dwellings. The owner of the house lived on the first level and rented out the middle and attic portions. To access the apartments, one would go in through the left side going up a long staircase to the middle apartment with a outer hall way that wrapped around leading to yet another long staircase to the attic apartment.
The middle apartment consisted of five rooms plus huge bathroom. Very easily used as a three bedroom apartment. All rooms were huge. The kitchen was a large eat in kitchen and the large bathroom had an old tub with the fancy legs and no shower.
The attic apartment was also very large consisting of four rooms plus bath with shower. The kitchen was a gallery type kitchen opening wider into the dining area. Off the dining room was the large bathroom. The other two rooms consisted of a large bedroom and huge living room. One of the things I love about old houses are the sizes of the rooms.
My grandmother (Nanny) on my mother's side rented the middle apartment in 1963. She had the place fixed up as a two bedroom apartment, a sitting room, and living room looking out towards the front of the house. She was married three times (each spouse passing on) during this 28 years. When her and Melvin (4th husband) married, they decided to rent the attic apartment as well to keep tenants from living over top. Melvin also built a screened in porch at the entrance leading up to the two apartments. I always enjoyed visiting my grandmother and loved staying up in the attic apartment.
Each time I pass through Mannington, this place calls out to me. It will always be a special place to me!
Worked in the No Name sketchbook using the Uniball UM 151 Brown Black gel pen. Talk about slow work shading the dark areas with the 0.28 pen but I enjoyed every minute of it. Also used a white gel pen in areas.
These mushrooms I picked early last year. I've held on to them for some reason and have since dried. They are sitting in an empty glass. Might be the funny tops that have intrigued me to keep them.....I'm not really sure.
Here's an ink and wash done of one of the buildings inside Prickets Fort located only a few miles from us. It sits off an inlet of the Mon River. Now a park where they have reenactments of the life style inside the fort many years ago.
When I was packing up the house for a possible move back into town, I came across this Sheaffer Calligraphy pen set I bought back in 1996. I used to create miniature tags with fabric angels for Hospice patients while living in Texas.
Here's one more sketch using the Uniball UM-151 pens
I've already used the Brown Black 0.28 size point and decided to try the 0.38 in various colors plus one 0.5 in the Brown Black.
I'm not one who can take watching gore, killing, and destruction. In fact I stay away from anything that can trigger fear. I enjoy an occasional Romantic Comedy but my favorite are those produced like Dream World and Disney animated...........those cute feel good type family movies that often make one laugh.
This sketch is a special one to me. I have wanted to do this for some time but would feel a bit squeamish attempting it until now.
Our house is a very, very, very fine house; with four dogs in the yard, life used to be so hard
Here's a page testing the pen in my No Name Generic sketchbook. The pen worked just as beautifully as it did in the more expensive Alpha journal. I can achieve super thin/light/fine lines as I can the darker marks. 
