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…
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Podcast: Art Supply Posse #25
This week Heather and I round up our favorite gift ideas to get you and your favorite artist inspired for 2017. There’s a ridiculous load of show notes this week too. Enjoy!
Brush Pens, Part 2: Water-Soluble Felt Tips
Guest review by Tina Koyama. In part 1 of the brush pen series, I covered felt-tipped waterproof pens. This review is about 11 brush pens with similar compressed-fiber tips but containing water-soluble black inks. In general, I’d say the tips behaved in the same ways as their waterproof-ink counterparts of comparable size. One of my…
Podcast: Art Supply Posse #24 Kathy Weller
This week Heather and I get a little goofy with the charming and effervescent illustrator, and lettering artist Kathy Weller on Art Supply Posse Ep. 24. We talk about ugly sketches, Wacom tablets and CINTIQs and some of our favorite art supplies too. We talk a lot so you’ve got plenty to listen to on…
Brush Pens, Part 1: Waterproof Felt Tips
Guest Review by Tina Koyama First, I’d like to welcome Tina to The Well-Appointed Desk and thank her for stepping in and helping with reviews. This is her first (and hopefully not her her last) review here. I’m thrilled to have Tina on board bringing a new perspective and point of view. Please give her…
Podcast: Art Supply Posse Ep. 22 Copic Markers & Coloring with Hannah
This week’s Art Supply Posse episode is all about Copic Markers and features my good pal and co-worker Hannah spent some quality time in Japan where she acquired an epic set of Copic markers and a crash course in how to use them. She also colored this week’s awesome artwork which is a terrarium coloring…
Podcast: Art Supply Posse #21 Did Someone Say Letterpress?
This week on Art Supply Posse, Heather and I are joined by Bob Atkins from Skylab Letterpress (true confession, my darling husband) to talk about letterpress printing and the somewhat circuitous route to finding your calling. We also go through some listener feedback and talk a bit about Inktober. Get all the show notes on…