Sunday Reads: Pens, Hummingbirds, and Elephants

Elephants and hummingbirds fascinate me so this past week offered some special treats. A watercolor demonstration has inspired me to try painting elephants. It’s way outside my skill level, but fun nevertheless…

• Draw Tip Tuesday: Fountain pen and ink (illustrated filling of an FP)
• Brotherly Love
• Hummingbird Pool Party
• Fountain pen manufacturing a forgotten empire of Akron
• Elephants demonstrate courage, compassion and intelligence
• Wired: Ink Different With These 7 Sensibly Priced Fountain Pens
• Search engines that aren’t Google
• Love at first sight!
• Elephants in three colors

Anyone else a sucker for demos?

Sunday Reads: Coffee, Ebonite, And Vinyls

Pressing records again? New ebonite pens? Bedding made from coffee grounds? What’ll they think of next!

• Which Brand of Watercolour Should You Choose?
• How a Scuba Diver Found a Good Friend Under the Sea
• Leigh Reyes: Vintage nibs in modern pens
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Paper-Oh Notebooks
• Sony to restart vinyl record production
• This Bedding Is Made From Coffee Grounds
• Ebonite Milano Fountain Pen Collection (I haven’t tried one yet, but am a fan of ebonite pens.)

Waterman’s 54 with Pink Nib

Sunday Reads: Best Pocket Pens, Mysterious Gold Object, And A Backstory

Lexington Gray has enjoyed a long term home in one of my Pentel Pocket Brush Pens. Very highly recommended for the calligrapher, artist, doodler in you…

• Mountain of Ink: My Fountain Pen Backstory
• Teoh: Video Review of Noodler’s Lexington Gray ink
• Mysterious gold object identified thanks to crowdsourcing
• School Bus Converted To Incredible Off-Grid Home
• FPN: Best before date on ink
• Ed Jelley: The 5 Best Pocket Fountain Pens To Carry Every Day (Lots of comments worth reading.)

Playtime in a Stillman & Birn Sketchbook

Sunday Reads: Ink, Pens And Typewriters

Wish I still had my blue Smith Corona…

• Artist creates explosive works of art with ink
• Call it a comeback: Old-school typewriters attract new fans
• Meet the family that keeps ink pens relevant
• Scribble Jot and the Inky Mess
• Noodler’s Ahab Flex Fountain Pen Review
• Pen Habit Ponders the Lack of Flex in Modern Flex Nibs

Stillman & Birn Sketchbook and Friends

 

Sunday Reads: Ink, Guides and Games

Busy week for me. Slow week for links…

• Jet Pens Blog: Waterproof Fountain Pen Inks
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Sailor Jentle Four Seasons Inks
• Vanness Pen Shop: Leigh Reyes “Journal Guides”
• Mental Floss: The Origins of 7 Popular Board Games
• Macchiato Man: 637 Bottles and 33.47 litres of Ink

Ink Rotation from the Summer of 2010

Sunday Reads: Charity Auction, A Pilot Kakuno, Game of Thrones Pens

Did you know Captain Kirk used to show horses? I saw him once and he was very good. He is a man of many talents and earns high marks for putting together a silent charity auction of entertainment memorabilia. Perhaps an item or two will interest you…

• Leigh Reyes: How to make your own watercolor and other diversions.
• Quo Vadis Blog: Top Ten Posts for May 2017
• William Shatner’s Hollywood Charity Horse Show and Silent Auction
• Losing Sleep Makes You Hungry, Study Says (No duh!)
• Girl Gives Genius ‘War Crimes’ Response To Teacher Feedback Form
• The Well-Appointed Desk: I’ll See You Again… in 25 Years
• The Montegrappa Games of Thrones writing instruments series
• Anura Rafael Write Time Will Take Your Breath Away

The Pilot Kakuno has a delightful expression, perfect to brighten any day.

 

Sunday Reads: Pen People And Pen Stuff

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• The Well-Appointed Desk: In Memory of Susan Wirth (Sad news.)
• From The Pen Cup: Who knew there was so much crap in my head?
• William Henry: Gentac Archive contains a 10,000 year-old fossil Woolly Mammoth tusk.
• Analog Writing: The Montblanc 14
• Scrively: My Top 5 reasons for writing with a fountain pen
• Scribble Jot: Waterman Carene Black Sea Fountain Pen Review
• Umberto Rossini: Watercolor Cityscape (My current favorite artist for watercolor demonstrations.)

Pelikan M200 Binder Stub