Pens: Parker Beta (via Alt. Haven) Montegrappa Passione (via The Pen Habit) Aurora Optima Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Kaweco Art Sport Amber and Citrone (via Write to Me Often) One Year Later: What are my Favorite Fountain Pens? (via Liz Steel) Sharpie Art Pen with Hard Case (via Office Supply Junkie) Ink: Montblanc Miles…
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Blue Denim
By popular request, I finally have a review of Robert Oster Blue Denim. It is one of the many shades of the new Robert Oster Signature Inks that I have and it is a great, shading, sheening color. There is a distinct red halo with this ink, even in finer nibs.It’s one of the first…
Brush Pens, Part 3: Waterproof Bristle Tips
Guest review by Tina Koyama Within the brush pen series (Part 1: Waterproof Felt Tips and Part 2: Water-Soluble Felt Tips), the type of pens I’m reviewing today are probably the ones I use most often – hairy, bristle-tip brush pens containing waterproof ink. Designed to simulate sumi brush pens used for traditional Asian calligraphy,…
Fashionable Friday: Godspeed, John Glenn.
This week, we lost another great, a true hero. Astronaut and politician John Glenn passed at the age of 95. The fact that for the last two days I’ve been awakened by an internal soundtrack of David Bowie singing “Starman” and “Major Tom” seemed to be a clear sign I needed to recognize our collective…
Massdrop: Ferme à Paris Planner, Calender & Notecards
Massdrop did a mass drop on me this week with some of the new products they are stocking from Ferme à Papier. They sent me the new Yearless Planner (currently $21.99), the Desk Calendar (currently $24.99) and the boxed Thank You Cards (currently $19.99). The planner is 5″x8″ with a perfect bound spine and decorative…
Ink Review: Papier Plume Garden District Azalea
Garden District Azalea is the last of the three color I purchased from the New Orleans ink collection from Papier Plume. I laughed because earlier this week Sarah mentioned in the comments for the Streetcar Green that she specifically passed on the the “pink ink” and here I was thinking I was saving the “best…
Podcast: Art Supply Posse #26 All Up In A Bind
This week on Art Supply Posse, Heather and I spend the episode trying to describe bookbinding basics using hand gestures and rattling tools you can’t see. So we’ve got lots of links to videos to help illustrate our points. We also talk about the best basic tools for bookbinding like paper, string and pointy things. All super…