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Book Review: 4321 – Paul Auster
When I started reading “4321” Paul Auster was still alive. By the time I finished it he had passed away. That does add an element of difficulty when discussing a work that is far from perfect – one...
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July’s Currently Ink Fountain Pens
This month features a few new inks, and a lot of old favourites that I haven’t used for a while. Big Idea Design’s Fountain EDC is far from perfect, and yet I’ve inked it up again. It’s the ultem and...
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Stabilo Boss NatureCOLORS Review – Can Highlighers Be Used for Sketching
Stabilo make THE highlighters – Stabilo Boss – chunky, reliable, classic. Over the years they’ve added pastel colours to their original neon coloured highlighters, and just recently they’ve expanded...
View ArticleJournaling Series: Journaling in Response to Media
There’s a new show out on a streaming service and I’ve started watching it. It’s part of a large franchise with a vocal fandom, and as usual, the fandom has opinions. These opinions are extreme,...
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Book Review: Tokyo Express – Seichō Matsumoto
Set in 1958 this tightly plotted, precise and polished mystery/detective story is very set in its time. Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is a masterwork...
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Two Caran d’Ache 849 Ballpoints Limited Editions – Keith Haring and Nespresso...
The Caran d’Ache 849 ballpoint is a classic which I have already reviewed in the past. While I rarely use ballpoints, I have several of these pens (all with gel refills that I have swapped instead of...
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August’s Currently Inked Fountain Pens
August is going to be a month of pens and inks that I haven’t used in a good long while. While I still have a small amount of ink in four of my July pens (the Kanelea, the TWSBI ECO-T Saffron, the Big...
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Moleskine Embossed Pocket Notebooks
My brother went to Hamburg to see the Taylor Swift Eras concert, and while he was in the city he went to the Mokeskine store and bought me these two embossed Moleskine pocket softcover blank...
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Coffee cup sketch
I got a set of Bic Kids markers and decided to sketch today’s coffee with them. You don’t need expensive drawing supplies to draw, and not every sketch needs yo be perfect.
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Paris 2024 Olympics Moleskine Notebooks
Just as I wrote a post about Moleskine no longer making store exclusive limited edition notebooks, my brother went to Paris (during the Olympics) and found not one but two store exclusive limited...
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How I Use My Notebooks: Gym Journal
Here’s an idea that I haven’t seen discussed before: take a pen and a pocket notebook with you to the gym and journal in between sets. This is my gym journal: Moleskine Pocket lined hardcover Mickey...
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Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
It turns out that when you take a bunch of stuff that you happen to like and put it in a blender, a book doesn’t come out. That should have been the tagline for this best-selling mediocre, patchwork...
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Paris 2024 Breaking Sketch and Building New Palettes
I’ve been unhappy with my watercolour palette lately, and so I’ve been experimenting with new colours instead of some of the old ones. I usually swap out one colour at a time, try out the new colour...
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Protest sketch
Powerful speeches and half a million people at the main protest to return the hostages and for a better leadership this evening. Bring them home now. Sketched on location and watercolour added later...
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Sketching Now Travel Sketching Course: Material List
I’ve started Liz Steel‘s Sketching Now Travel Sketching course this week, and so I’ll be posting about my progress throughout the course. I travel a few times a year and while I already sketch during...
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Sketching Now Travel Sketching: Eiffel Tower and Big Ben
So the first week of actual lessons in Liz Steel’s Sketching Now Travel Sketching course started and already there’s been a slight change of materials. As this week will be entirely focused on line...
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SketchingNow Travel Sketching: Lines
So I just finished the first week of Liz Steel’s SketchingNow Travel Sketching course. I wrote about my material list for this course here and about the beginning of the first week here. Liz started...
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Pelikan Edelstein Ink of the Year Golden Lapis Review and Pelikan Hubs 2024
Yesterday Pelikan celebrated their annual Pelikan Hubs event, and we had a local Pelikan Hub. Since 2014 the German pen company has invited its fans to gather in groups all around the world and for...
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My Flock of Fountain Pens for the Pelikan Hubs 2024
We just had the 2024 Pelikan Hubs event and I wanted to talk about which Pelikan fountain pens I brought with me to the event, and to note a few things that may be useful for those looking to get into...
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