Paper & Pen

I speak up about a lot of big topics, but a girl always has her guilty pleasures. Mine is paper and ink, and actually, I don’t feel guilty about it at all.

Pen/Ink Reviews

• Ink Sample Comparisons and Reviews: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• J. Herbin Inks (survey)
• J. Herbin’s Rouge Opera (Bastille Day sample from Quo Vadis Blog)
• New Tools: Derwent aquatones, watercolour pencils, and graphitone.
• Caran D’Ache Neocolor II: set of 10
• Pelikan 120 fountain pen
• Waterbrush
• Parker IM (Profile) fountain pen
• Parker 45 Review fountain pen
• Mixing Up Summer Inks

Notebook Reviews

• Exacompta Sketchbook
• The Roundup: Rhodia Raffle Prize
• Quo Vadis Equology Academic Planner
• Kunst and Papier Sketchbook
• Quo Vadis Habana Notebook (blank)
• Blank Book Showdown: Habana versus Rhodia
• Softcover leather Sketchbook from Etsy Seller ToBoldly Fold

Things I Do (and Don’t Do) With Pens, Ink, & Paper

> > ART PORTFOLIO < < the big one!

• Why I Don’t Use Moleskine: A Journaler’s DIY Manifesto
• Journal Using Recycled Paper
• Two Little Handmade Booklets
• In Which She Admits to Having Whittled a Pen
• Handmade Summer Sketchbook
• End of the Exacompta Sketchbook
• Finishing my SECOND Exacompta Sketchbook
• What Is This Nonsense? (How pens affect handwriting)
• Aesthetic Notetaking: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Using Up My Ink
• Old Pen and Ink Figure Study
• Handbound Book with FOUR Different Clairefontaine Papers (see in-progress here)
• A College Career in Journals
• Nib Grinding, in Brief
• Customized Moleskines for the FIG office
• Artist/Writer Stranded without a Book

Other Relevant Posts

• Disposable Fountain Pens
• Sisterpoet & The Act of Creativity
• Corners, Nooks, and Spaces (part 2)
• Water-soluble Mediums Compared
• lolConstitution – how dip pens affected the making of a nation
• How to Be a Starving Artist with a Full Belly