Bees in pen and ink: Dip pens

Working with dip pens and Gillott nib At the moment I'm enjoying the summer weather, chasing insects around the garden and getting used to a new camera. I have been really pleased to find miner bees digging in my garden for the first time this year. I don't know whether I've missed them before, or they're here for the first time. I'm concentrating on drawing the bees using dip pens fitted with a Gillot nib, and thought I'd share some of the images I've been working on. These are of all sorts of bees…

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