The ballpoint is a Lamy, the pen is an Eversharp Skyline, and the video is short.
The first fountain pens were eyedroppers. The entire barrel held ink. I expect this was a relief to scribes weary and wrist-sore from dipping nibs into inkwells. (Centuries before that paper from plants rescued generations of goats from becoming papal bulls. Science, ever forward!) The Waterman 12 is a slim eyedropper. It was quite popular …
I found it in National Bookstore and gave it a try, because P112.00 is not bad for a watercolor pad. Twenty-four spiral-bound acid-free sheets of practice goodness. The paper is a warm off-white. I also grabbed a couple of Chinese brushes to practice with. The result is two unusual girls having their usual hit of …
The audio is classic bad instructional video (voice-over talent I am not), but the video should be useful if you’re interested in seeing this unusual nib in action. The ink is Caran d’Ache Storm, diluted – it shades even more wonderfully that way.
I love that word. “Contraption.” You can almost see the string tying together the bolts and ratchets and flanges. Today we have two contraptions. One holds pens. The other is a pen. The Muji pen holder can slide onto most notebook covers. It fits very securely on a standard hardcover Moleskine. Wire hoops stretch to …
Sailor’s Nagahara specialty nibs are feats of engineering, and just like other feats of engineering, like bridges and giant tangles of metallic modern art in parks, Â sometimes they look mighty weird. Take, for example, the King Cobra. The King Cobra is actually two nibs. The bottom nib has a very wide tip, the upper nib …
When you grow up stabbing Wonder Woman’s outline on empty cigarette cartons with a ballpoint, you don’t develop a light hand. I remember proudly darkening the outlines on all my trees, apples, houses and sunflowers in art class, thinking it made them look neater. I walked by a Chinese calligraphy exhibit last month and realized …
As someone who is used to carrying bags which have entire universes inside, I am grateful to have assembled a pocket kit for my attempts at watercolor. The pencil (which changes) is a Rotring, the paintbrush came from another watercolor box, and the Moleskine watercolor notebook is just the right size. The watercolor box from …
Via rasmussen.edu, the jobs of the future. I don’t see nibmeister (or advertising copywriter) in any of them. 😉
For now. Suffusion had a great magazine template but I should have started with it, not tried to change into it midstream, because it requires resizing all my images so that everything looks arranged. Oh well.