I laugh at work-life balance. I laugh at balance in general, a life doled out in equal proportions and symmetry. Give me the roller coaster, the bumps and troughs, because the flatline will come for us all soon enough. Obsession and passion require a beautiful, terrible imbalance. However. A little Balance, in pen form, is …
Month: September 2011
“Do you dream about them?” “No. That’s probably why I don’t dream about them, because I’ve already drawn them.” “That sounds right.” Boom. Drawn first in pencil, then outlined with a Parker Lucky Curve with Sailor Tokiwa Mat green ink. Watercolor and ink bleed together, deliberately. Two pens, two inks: a Parker Lucky Curve with …
Plain, unassuming pens have a way of hiding surprises. Like the pen equivalent of a sexy librarian. I have many pens with flexible nibs, and many pens whose finish and function are artful. This Parker Duofold is not the most flexible or artful. Still, it has kept its place in the pen case. It must …
Black clothes roost in my closet, in their solidarity of darkness. This penchant for black has somehow stretched into other cabinets, that hold ink bottles. Why do I have so many different kinds of black ink? Why do I have 10 pairs of black pants? Why is the sky black? Noodler’s Dark Matter has a …
Collateral shopping damage, that’s what this is. I went to National Bookstore to buy envelopes (I owe several of you artwork, you know who you are) and drifted towards the notebook section. I picked up a Venzi Copelle dot-grid notebook for P289. It has a hard cover, an exaggeratedly wide elastic band and smooth dot-grid …
Sennelier shellac ink with folded pen. 6.0mm Parallel Pen, 3B Pelikan. Retipped Parker Duofold stub, Noodler’s Golden Brown. Moore safety pen, De Atramentis Patina Green. All on Daler-Rowney Calligraphy Paper.