Month: August 2014

Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsuji ink review

19 August 2014 By ian

Not quite my cup of tea this colour but it’s interesting, you can’t deny that. Here I am doodling the Inkling. Being a bit of a numpty I put all of the sample into the pen which limited what I was able to do for the review.

Staedtler Mars Technico 780C clutch pencil review

18 August 2014 By ian

The Staedtler Mars Technico 780C is a 2mm clutch pencil. It has a plastic body with metal clip, knock and grip. All works as it should. The lead is held tightly, the clip is firm, there are no unfortunate rattles or wobbles. The knock includes a very functional lead pointer. This pencil is comfortable to […]

Gran’s seat (sketch)

15 August 2014 By ian

My Gran was 100 yesterday. Up until a few years ago she would come with us each year when we went to France. She would always sit on this seat outside the house and watch her great grandchildren play football or soak their dad in very one-sided water-fights. Even though she’s too frail to make […]

Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration Pad review

14 August 2014 By ian

The Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration Pad has 70 sheets of bright white paper. It’s available plain or with a dot grid and in sizes from A7 up to A4. This is the A5 version. The pad is meant to be used in landscape format but there’s no reason you have to, of course. There is a […]

Wednesday Weekly 13 August

13 August 2014 By ian

I decided I needed to organise my non-fountain pens a little better. From around the web: Rather than me provide a list of links, have a look at my new site Pennaquod. It’s a search engine that only looks at pen blogs. All the sites have opted in. Quite apart from the search aspect being […]