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Skwiggle Dragon.

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The very first Skwiggle

2023 brought a little Skwiggle Dragon into life. A simple 20 seconds result from a mistake of wondering how this new purchase of Pelikan art ink in a small plastic bottle, when squeezed, works on paper. The quick output of ink resulted in a subsequent other ‘quick’. ‘Quick! Do something’. Happened from the introduction of ink from skweeze-ing the bottle to available paper without prior deliberating outcomes of speed of delivery. The wet deep inky blackness spilled out and needed a flash of ‘Gosh! Unexpected! Very unexpected. Please don’t let me waste the paper or the ink’. Again, with uninformed improvisation ….’Quick! Turn that reverse S into something….anything’. Then grabbing a dip nib worked on the black wetness with simplicity of lines. Result? Skwiggle the Dragged Out, from said reverse S line, Dragon.

Photographed and posted on Facebook as my avatar, whilst also seen as the original on paper by others too, many mentioned the idea of a Summers’ ‘Tattoo’. ‘Have it as a tattoo’ they smiled. 67 years old and they suggest a younger person’s considered consideration. I don’t do tattoos. I have no ink work on my body at all. Well, apart from inky fingers from fountain pen use. Even those results of leaky pens or lever filling the fountain pens’ barrel chambers have no Rorschach test shaping. Random and difficult to wash off. Focus is on getting rid. Not analysis. Nothing interesting enough to sit and study by looking at weird inky stains on fingers and finding answers where I went, and still go, wrong in this life. Well, apart from filling a fountain pen badly.

The Ty-Phoo Tea pen. A lever pen with a particular pen-chant for providing inky residue on finger tips. Tea leaves and inky fingers. See how I get my blog ideas?

Inky stained finger analysis? It’s akin to reading tea leaf debris in a cup after after supping the tea. But with a tea bag in place of loose tea leaves. Tea bag? You can’t see the wood from the trees. Or the leaves from the paper. Same two scenarios but in a different reverse point in time.

Interestingly. Do you yourself leave the tea bag in the cup whilst drinking? Black Earl Grey or Lapsang Souchong in organic, unbleached tea bags left in a huge mug, whilst drinking the beverage, is heaven. A story unfolds in the mouth. It is an experience pertaining to understanding the reality of weakness to strength as the tea bag sits in its diminishing watery surroundings and feels confident because it was allowed to realise its full flavour potential. Ain’t that life though. The more we are savoured if allowed to express ourselves, the stronger we become. Leave the tea bag in! Let it tell you its tale.

But I do love this little inky mistake. It’s shouts out simplicity. It also states out quietly, as said, I was born from a mistake. So if I did succumb and have a late in life tattoo, do I want it as a constant reminder of a mistake! And is that relevant for reflecting on the year 2023? Was the year a negative mistake or positive believe?

Who knows! Next year may provide the answer.

The most recent Skwiggle of many drawn deliberately.

15 thoughts on “Skwiggle Dragon.”

    1. I replied to Brenda with this one. Ordinary tea gets too bitter. Earl Grey seems to hold at certain tolerable taste levels. But taken never, ever with milk. I won’t get a tattoo in reality. It hasn’t been something I have ever considered. My Dad and Brother haven’t got one either. I’ve written a blog on the ‘Five B’s’. Bohemian, baccy, booze, beards and body art. A very hipster vibe exists when in possession or use of all five. Cheers Danny. Look forward to your 1st January pen pot choice Danny. All the best.

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