Sorry that this week’s Link Love will be so late. Due to the Petra winter storm, I will not be back into Kansas City until Thursday. It’s been an 11-day epic road trip (to Little Rock and then all the way to LA and then back to Little Rock and then back home) and Link…
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Book Review: Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking
How could I possibly pass up a book that would teach me how to make my own ink? Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking by Jason Logan was an insta-buy for me. The swashes of color on the cover alone were enough to get it in my cart. Then, I was at a…
Watercolor Review: Viviva Colorsheets
Review by Tina Koyama Concentrated watercolor paint stored on paper has intrigued me for a long time: Thin and lightweight, it seems like the ultimate portable paint kit! Several years ago when I first began urban sketching, I bought a booklet of Nicholson’s Peerless Water Colors with that thought in mind. Around the same time,…
LA or Bust!
Hopefully, you’ve been following along with the road trip adventures of me and Lisa Vanness as we careen across the country on our way to Huntington Beach for the LA Pen Show this weekend. We are looking forward to seeing everybody who can make it out for the show. We will have a literal…
Link Love: On The Road
I’m writing Link Love from a truck stop this week, somewhere in the southwest United States on the way to LA for the pen show. This is my first multi-day, cross-country pen show trip. Traveling puts a pause on the world and while simultaneously hyperfocusing everything. We have no time and nothing but time. It’s…
Ink Review: Lamy Crystal Amazonite
Last week, I reviewed my first Lamy Crystal ink color: Rhodonite. While Rhodonite filled a much hoped-for gap in the Lamy ink line-up, it was not exactly breaking new ground, colorwise. Amazonite, is thankfully, a new color altogether from anything I’ve seen previously from Lamy. Lamy Crystal Amazonite comes in the same glass bottle with…
Fashionable Friday: Here We Go Love
Inspired by the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, the new jelly, frosted Kaweco Sport pens and an album I waited three decades for, this week’s Fashionable Friday is ready for love. All kinds. Romance, pet love, familial, and even love of a new pen. English Beat Here We Go Love (via Spotify) Kaweco Sport Frosted Blush…