{"id":7675,"date":"2021-01-28T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:33:17","slug":"just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Usually, I think of January as one of the more relaxed months of the year. But somehow that hasn\u2019t turned out to be the case in 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

However, no complaints!
With the help of a planning workshop I took with Alyson Stanfield<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, I\u2019ve managed to keep the most important balls in the air, while also checking off a few chores that typically lurk around the edges of my list, yet somehow always get pushed to the next week, and then the next week, and so on.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Jan<\/strong> \u00a92020 Elizabeth Fram, Ink and colored pencil on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches \u00a0This is the 14th and last of the selfie drawings from 2020<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Cleaning my drawing pens is one of those tasks that I should<\/em> tend to more regularly, but just don\u2019t. However, when the lines begin to skip frustratingly and the ink won\u2019t flow despite the converter having just been refilled, I know the time has come.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u00a92021 Elizabeth Fram, Ink on paper, 8.5 x 5.5 inches<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I draw with Platinum Carbon Ink<\/a> for its beautiful, rich black line. But the downside is it contains microscopic carbon particles that will gum up the works if one isn\u2019t diligent about pen cleaning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u00a92021 Elizabeth Fram, Ink on paper, 8.5 x 5.5 inches<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have been reading that an inexpensive ultrasonic cleaner (a home version of what jewelers use) is great for loosening the flecks of dried ink that tend to build up in hard to reach places. So far, patiently letting all the components soak in numerous water baths over a period of hours, followed by a gentle brushing with an old toothbrush and a good flush from a slow-running tap, has done the trick. But I\u2019m curious whether one of those cleaners might not be a speedier and more thorough option, which in the long run might encourage me to be more diligent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u00a92021 Elizabeth Fram, Ink on paper, 8.5 x 5.5 inches<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Last week I finally took the time to dutifully clean all my pens and converters and I\u2019m now reaping the rewards: smooth flowing lines that could seemingly go on for days. Like so many things, once you finally get a chore done you can\u2019t help but wonder why in the world it took so long.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Usually, I think of January as one of the more relaxed months of the year. But somehow that hasn\u2019t turned out to be the case in 2021. However, no complaints!With the help of a planning workshop I took with Alyson Stanfield a couple of weeks ago, I\u2019ve managed to keep the most important balls in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,44,862],"tags":[144,644],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-supplies","category-drawing","category-textiles-and-drawings","tag-alyson-stanfield","tag-platinum-carbon-ink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-1ZN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}