I couldn’t resist making my own pigment ink waterbrushes, because I had waterbrushes to spare. From left to right: a Sakura waterbrush filled with highly diluted Platinum Carbon Black; Pentel Aquash with Platinum Pigment ink in Sepia; Pentel Aquash with water; mini Pentel Aquash; and the Pentel Aquash watercolor brush I previously reviewed. This quick …
The Pentel Pocket Brush Pen has a fanatical following among artists. It has a springy, responsive brush that can do hairlines and fat strokes. The ink is waterproof black, and comes in cartridges. Pentel also makes Pentel Aquash, the waterbrush that made watercolor painting urban-friendly. Waterbrushes hold water in the barrel so artists on the …
Accept every offer. In the world of inkprov, my partner is water. I make random squiggles of water on blank paper. Then I add ink. It’s only when I add ink that the lines and shapes offer themselves. I have to accept whatever they are and draw from them, into them, and with them. My eye-mind …
Maxpedition doesn’t make bags. They make carrying tools wrought from 1,000 denier lightweight ballistic nylon fabric, AS-100 high-grade closed cell foam padding material for superior shock protection, high tensile strength composite nylon webbing, triple-distilled ink of Kraken and the heartsblood of dragons. I got their knife collector’s bag because I was curious to see if …
Parallel Pen with Platinum Carbon Black, watercolor. Noodler’s Antietam, Habanero, Golden Brown. Noodler’s Habanero, Golden Brown. Noodler’s Golden Brown, Habanero, Antietam, Platinum Carbon Black. Private Reserve Shoreline Gold, Pilot iroshizuku momiji, Noodler’s Singapore Sepia.
Artists always play with the relationship of medium to ground. Pastel on brown wrapping paper, silverpoint on gesso, ink on parchment, spray acrylic on brick. Pastel artists use toned backgrounds and colored paper to add body and contrast to what is really just powder hanging on to microscopic protrusions, for dear life and art. It …
Pilot Parallel Pens are wonderful for calligraphy. Inspired by @rcannonp and Yoji Shinkawa’s sketch with a 3.8mm, I decided I would go with the 6 mm. It’s a challenge to find the balance between bold stroke and hairline suggestion. Also, for someone used to keeping a steady angle of nib to paper, the rapid switching …
Ever since the Muji branch in Rockwell opened, I’ve visited at least once a week. It takes effort not to buy something each time. Inside Muji I feel like I can buy serenity, a well-ordered life, and really cool notebooks. Dot grid notebooks have dots instead of a regular lined grid like graphing (also known …
Why do we search for “pictures” in Google image search? Isn’t that like googling Google?
Fully Booked stocks Clairefontaine, Prat and Sennelier sketch pads and notebooks. Maybe one day they’ll stock G. Lalo and L’Atelier du Papier too, and advance the French art supply invasion. l’ebauche sketch pads come in many sizes. I have the 16×16 and the 24×32, both 130 sheets each. The paper is off-white and fairly translucent, …