Tomorrow I head out for St. Louis for the pen show. Will you be there too? If not, I hope you are having a wonderful summer and maybe I’ll see you somewhere else in the future? Until then, have fun with this week’s links including Mike of Inkdependence’s entry into our #21PenQuestions project. Pens: The…
We have reviewed the classic Kaweco Sport fountain pen many times but we continue to come back to it. It is a great gateway pen and its is inexpensive enough to live in your bag or on your desk at work. So, of course, you need more than one, right? So, over the past few…
After my previous post about opaque white markers, I grabbed another model — this time the Pilot Juice Paint ($3.60 for EF). The Pilot Juice Paint pens are available in a variety of colors in Fine and Extra Fine models. I was most curious about the white for adding highlights and details in art work…
As of last Thursday, I have had a succession of little irritations. You know, little things. I got a flat tire, the blog had some backend issues, I am having issues with my CINTIQ drawing boards, the cats went berserk and tore out a screen on the catio one night, we had workers at the…
Somehow, I managed to miss the first two releases of the Blackwing Red & Blue colored pencils. The first version was a special edition red/blue combo pencil and then they released the full red and blue pencils in sets… maybe last year? Either way, by the time I went to order them, they had sold…
Review by Tina Koyama I took a watercolor class a few months ago that left me frustrated. Using a limited palette of pigments, I wanted to learn to mix colors. As I tried to achieve the hues I was looking for, my paint mixes would become increasingly diluted. I’d add more paint to get a…
I remember when the rubber duck first went for a cruise around Hong Kong harbor ten years ago. I was tickled to see that in honor of the ten year anniversary of the first time the giant, yellow bathtub buddy set sail, they are launching TWO ducks in Hong Kong Harbor this weekend. It makes…
