Preview by Tina Koyama Although I’m not following any prompts or even using group hashtags this year, I decided to participate in Inktober by continuing my ongoing series of daily hand drawings in ink. (I started the series in March in response to the pandemic; you can read about it here. Sketches are posted daily…
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Eye Candy: Dip Nib Pen
Last year at the Arkansas Pen Show (it feels like ages ago!) I purchased a dip nib pen second hand from one of the vintage sellers. It came in a Papier Plume box, though I don’t see it available on their site now. Lately I’ve had fun playing with the pen. I do use a…
Pen Review: Pentastic CxPO Brass Folded Nibs for Testers
Last weekend, I went to Kansas for the weekend to hang out with two fellow pen nerds, Jesi and Jaclyn. We played with the Pentastic folded nibs a lot. It inspired me to show these to you, my lovely readers. I have been using the Toronto Pen Company Pentastic CxPO brass folded nibs (C$40.00) designed…
Bortoletti Entwined Glass Murano Glass Dipping Pen With Glass or Metal Nib
Over the last few years I’ve come to love my dip nib pen. I use it for all my ink testing because I love the way I can change the nibs easily in the pen and see inks over wide variety of line types. This is to say that I have long coveted one of…