Oh, Pantone! You picked my signature color as the color of the year? Why, thank you. This year Pantone chose “Greenery” as their color for 2017. It’s also known as PMS 376C or PMS 15-0343 TCX, if you are familiar with Pantone’s color matching systems. Their theory is that 2017 will be a year of…
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Podcast: Art Supply Posse #27 Mike Hawthorne
Comic book artist, family man and all-around good guy Mike Hawthorne kept Heather and I laughing with his wit and wisdom this week on Art Supply Posse #27. Mike illustrates the wonderfully bawdy Marvel comic book Deadpool and our conversation may also include some PG-13 language. (You’ve been warned.) All pertinent links and shownotes on…
Link Love: Gift Guides & Oddities
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…
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…