Second chances go over well in religions and romance novels. Recently, I’ve realized they also work with pens. You can absolutely hate a pen when you first try it, then when you go back and write with it again, maybe holding the pen at a different angle or using a different ink, you start to …
I found this in Kinokuniya, beside calligraphy brushes, brush pens and student sumi ink. The Platinum Soft Pen is a felt-tip, demonstrator-style pen. It comes with a cartridge of red ink, “Marking Red,” and a spare felt tip. I decided to pop in a Nakaya goldfish converter, thinking it would look good showing through the …
I know people who love to buy notebooks, and then can’t bring themselves to spoil the notebooks by scribbling and doodling in them. Â “Are my scratches and curlicues worthy of this saddle-stitched deckled-edge journal of wonder?” Of course they are. It’s your journal of wonder. Still, if you need the journal equivalent of training wheels, …
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 …
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 …
Thanks to Julie of Whatever I have a Noodler’s Creaper flexible nib fountain pen. She gave it good marks in her review and that made me look forward to trying it. It really is the creepy, is-my-nib-going-to-split-in-two slit responsible for the tines being able to spread. The steel itself looks slightly thicker than the Tachikawa School-G …
The Eversharp 64 was named – and priced – after the $64 Question, a popular game show feature back when $64 was a million dollars. Their marketing department seemed to know what it was doing. A Time feature back in 1946 says Eversharp sold $32 million worth of the 64 pen and pencil sets in …
Yes, let’s all be fans of capillary action. 🙂