When we are grateful, we are full of gratitude. When we say, “Be careful,” we wish for someone to be full of care. When we are mindful, we desire to be full of mind. A mind embedded in skin, a mind in each eye, a mind in every tastebud. It is near-impossible to be mindful …
Month: December 2009
Two of the Kamakura Pens General Grant LE, and one with three Pelikans and a note.
It seems old paintings are good for something after all. 🙂 Each of the images below links to a 1600×1200 version. Feel free to resize for your own use.
Thank you to @wolfpuppet for giving me the best Christmas pen ever. You are a gem of a boyfriend. 😉 And this is, literally, a jewel of a pen. The pen is clipless, in chased BHR. I am the first person to ink it. The box is in amazing condition for an object from the …
There’s room in the universe for fan fiction, so there should be room for fan ink. No, this does not include ST: TNG, or any other Star Trek variant. Make your own Borg Black (which in my head is very close to Noodler’s Zhivago). Redshirt Crimson should be there, though. It would look exactly like …
It’s not that I get bored, it’s more like the fountain pen ink needs playmates. Nakaya fine flexible, Waterman pink, Pelikan OBB nibs. Prat refillable journal. Faber-Castell colored pencils.
Fountain pen ink exhibits all sorts of weirdness when worked wet-in-wet, the waterproof and bulletproof kind even more so. Thus began a quick Sunday adventure with a watercolor brush, a tray of inks and watercolor paper. The ink that spreads green is Waterman Blue-Black (for those of you who swear it’s not blue-black but green, …
Prat Paris makes wonderful, wonderful portfolios. They don’t know coffee dregs about making a website, but that’s all right, we will patiently download the PDFs not knowing they were there to be downloaded. Fully Booked stocks Prat portfolios, and just recently added scrapbooks, pocket journals, and refillable journals. I bought the largest refillable journal (11″ …
Lately I’ve been all hashtag and no descender, and it’s already December, and there are more and more doodles unblogged by the day. So this is the doodle-all-you-can blog entry, featuring many pens and many different inks, although they are mostly black. These were all done on Bloc Rhodia Nº 16 Uni (Blank) paper.
Photoshop plus long meeting equals SwirlyGirl, defender of fuchsia.