Buyer Beware! The “This Innovative Artist Pen Can Draw in 16 Million Colors” (via My Modern Met) is back! This is a product under a different name than previous tools but its another in a long list of products that tries to make it possible to have all the colors of the rainbow in one pen.
I am not going to link it anywhere except here in my intro because, honestly, I still don’t believe this can work and is there really a need for this? How are the colors cleared out or do you get gooey griege/poop brown/etc while the pen shifts from orange to green? I shake my head. Please, if you know of a real world need for this, let me know in the comments. In the meantime, I am just going to ponder a world where this is the kind of product development people are clamoring for.
Pens:
- Pocket Fountain Pens, Part II: Further Reflections on Pocket Carry (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Ink:
- Papier Plume ReBirth Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Ink of the Week – Ferris Wheel Press Adventurine (via Fountain Pen Love)
- Getting Creative with Monteverde’s Color Changing Inks (via Pen Boutique Ltd)
- Van Dieman’s Feline Part 2 (via Mountain of Ink)
- Ink Review #2357: Diamine Celadon Cat (via Mountain of Ink)
- Robert Oster Taiwan Blue (via Inkcredible Colours)
- Intermediate Guide to Fountain Pen Inks: Sheen, Shading, Shimmer, and More (via JetPens Blog)
- thINKthursday – Visconti Orchard in Blossom (via Anderson Pens Blog)
Pencils:
- Little Pen Designs Acrylic Barrel Mechanical Pencil Review (via The Pen Addict)
- A cool new mechanical pencil (via Liz Steel)
- Review: Amazonbasics Colored Pencils (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Unusual Filofax Organiser Designs (via Philofaxy)
- Nolty Landscape Format Notebook (via Notebook Stories)
- Hobonichi Techo: Frequently Asked Questions (via JetPens Blog)
- Bullet Journaling: dotpads (via Stationery Pizza)
Art & Creativity:
- InkTober, Days 1 – 7 (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Drawing Bikes with Kids! (via Apple-Pine)
- It’s Optical Mixing Season (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Schmincke Super Granulation Volcano Watercolour Trio Review (via Writing at Large)
- Day two at war and no inktober post for today (via Writing at Large)
- The Artist Who Embarked on a 52-Week Painting Challenge (via Hyperallergic)
- Frightfully free fonts: 6 Google fonts for Halloween designs (via Creative Boom)
- ROSA Gallery 28-Color Full Pan Botanical Watercolor Set Review (via Doodlewash)
- COMICS PROCESS- How I draw comics from rough sketches to inking to colou… (via Drewscape)
Other Interesting Things:
- Some of the Most Interesting and Weird Manuals in the Internet Archive (via Kottke.org)
- Designed by Kengo Kuma, Kiki’s Museum of Literature to Open in Tokyo (via Spoon & Tamago)
- Hail the Snail Mail (via Mountain of Ink)
- 2023 Dallas Pen Show Recap (via The Pen Addict)
- A tour of the spreadsheets I use to organize my life (via All About Planners)
- New 3D-printed elements for the IBM Selectric (via The Typewriter Revolution blog)
- Wes Anderson recreates Roald Dahl’s writing shed (via Austin Kleon)
- Forget ‘quiet quitting’, Elizabeth Lum’s animation proves hustle culture to be a sham (via It’s Nice That)
- Art Crossword: October 2023 (via Hyperallergic)
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I did see a youtube video of the colorpik pen supposedly working and yes, the user held the nib to a tissue to bleed off the ink until the chosen color flowed properly. IF this is real, it seems like an awfully big waste of ink if you switch colors often. Considering the price point of $160 and ink refills are $30 it seems like a poor value. A cursory glance at Amazon and you can get hundreds of markers in all the colors for far cheaper than that. Who really needs a marker to match their sweater or teapot that bad??
My first thought: I want one! My second thought: The nozzles will instantly clog, just like every color inkjet I’ve owned.
It supposedly works on electronic tablets too – do they all use the same colour-codings and pen type?
I remember a similar ink-mixing pen being advertised years ago – which never worked.