“Why is that notebook submerged in an aquarium?” I met Stone Paper notebooks thanks to an intriguing display at Fully Booked. They placed a Stone Paper notebook in a tiny aquarium and encouraged people to scribble in the notebook and drop it back into the water. The paper is made by Terraskin from calcium carbonate …
Month: May 2011
Good inks come in threes. Pilot iroshizuku shin-ryoku, Noodler’s Spirit of Bamboo, J. Herbin Vert Empire. Private Reserve Cosmic Cobalt, Sailor Nioi-Sumire, Pilot iroshizuku kon-peki. Private Reserve Arabian Rose, J. Herbin Larmes de Cassis, Pilot iroshizuku tsutsuji. Wouldn’t it be great to have a triple-chambered piston filler that you could fill with three different ink …
I was in Boracay, voted one of the world’s best beach destinations, for eight days. I worked on my tan. I worked as a judge in the Kidlat Awards. And I worked on my quick-draw watercolor skills. I brought my Schminke box, waterbrushes, a dropper bottle, and a Daycraft sketch notebook. I kept painting women …