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I’ll do a more detailed review, I promise. In the meantime I wanted to put up pictures. Here’s the Mina in blue-beige ebonite. I love the subtle flare at the ends. Come to think of it this particular Mina would make a great pair of jeans. I asked for a 2.3 mm nib leaning towards …
Nakaya pens nestle in the ink-stained Enveloop. I am experiencing a belated hankering after some kind of organization. Discipline, too. I carry upwards of twenty pens a day. Each one is different enough from the other to enable me to justify all of them. (Until my right shoulder and lower back violently disagree with me.) …
It looks like I do. At first it’s novel, then it’s almost useful, because the sheer novelty of it all sends my brain scrambling to find justifications for owning one. The sharpener comes with a Flat Sketchingâ„¢ pencil. The instructions do not in any way capture how fun This Objectâ„¢ is. After a few side-to-side …
I don’t want to go back to the time when scribes had to whittle their own pens, skin their own goats and cook their own ink. Where reasonable substitutes exist, be reasonable. Walnut ink used to be made from walnuts. Walnut Drawing Ink (by Tom Norton Designs) isn’t. A “Walnut Drawing Stick” can be bought …
Sometimes it’s not what you plan that goes through, but what you do on the fly. I met Steve Light of stevelightart.com, his wife Christine and their sunshine-loving cat the morning of the day I left NYC. We played with pens, ate bagels and had an absolutely pen-nerdy time. Steve draws with fountain pens, and …
Tenser, said the tensor, the hoarding has begun. There’s something about Da Vinci that I like. In both shops, the floor space isn’t that big, yet there’s enough variety on the shelves to keep me interested. They recently started distributing ArtGraf “watercolour graphite,” which seems to spread more easily with water than the water-soluble graphite …
Sometimes I argue with the Tao Te Ching. I really do. I hate how it says “don’t stand on tiptoe,” and “don’t rush ahead.” I struggle with accomplishing much without doing anything.  I want to peek. I want to turn the corner, breathless. Here’s one more thing, and another, another, sparkling and alive and doable. Makati …
I wish I had told myself this earlier. So I’m making up for that now. Click to get to the larger version. Written with a Waterman 52v on Kokuyo Campus Report Pad.
The song is I Have Never Loved Someone, by My Brightest Diamond, from the album All Things Will Unwind, available from Asthmatic Kitty. The paper is (mostly) Daler-Rowney’s Cartridge Pad (120 gsm). Shara Worden wrote this for her baby, and cried a little after singing it for a Takeaway Show.