This is the fountain pen version of watercolor’s wet-in-wet technique. I use a dropper bottle (bought at Beabi) with a narrow opening to draw lines and shapes, then attempt to make sense of the water squiggles with ink. If you don’t have a dropper bottle, you can also paint lines with a brush, or use …
Month: February 2011
That’s what Jetpens calls it. I have three or four cases by Nomadic, and this one is the easiest to find in the bag because it is a screaming red. Not only does the color scream, so does the wide velcro strip. There is no way to open this case quietly during a meeting. It …
We used to do it in art class: plop a blob of watercolor on oslo paper, lean forward, and blow. The watercolor traveled on paper with every energetic exhalation, looking like rivulets or branches or skeletal fingers. Yesterday I had a lens blower on my table. I also had a notebook and a pen. And …
It’s called toilegami – the art of folding the end of the toilet paper roll to reassure hotel guests the toilet is fresh and ready. No one has to do it, but most hotels now do. I’ve seen simple triangles, and once even a half crane, but never anything like this. Pens don’t need barrel …