The Kaweco Sketch Up line is a range of clutch pencils available in a variety of finishes, mostly taking 5.6mm lead. (Some take 2mm lead.) There are two kinds, one with a grip section (costing around £30 in the UK) and one without (costing about £27). Here I’m reviewing an aluminium pencil with a grip […]
Here’s a painting of the scene I posted a charcoal sketch of last week. It’s the top of the stairs leading from the calm coolness of the riad to the blazing heat of the roof terrace, in Marrakech. Windsor & Newton paints, Windsor & Newton Bockington Water Colour Paper, Windsor & Newton Cotman brushes
The Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood pencil is available just in HB. It’s quite expensive, for a pencil: £3.50 in the UK, $4.50 in the USA. That’s each. According to CW Pencils, the Swiss Wood is made from wood. From Switzerland. More specifically, dark beech wood from the Swiss Jura. This is such a beautiful part […]
This is a good royal blue shade – a shade I don’t particular enjoy myself but there are so many versions people must like it. It’s fairly slow to dry but not disastrously so. Here I am doodling the Inkling. Thank you Chris Stafford for sending me this sample!
I remember trying the original Yoropen when it first appeared in the UK. I think this was around 10 years ago. At the time it caused quite a stir in education because it purported to help just about every writing problem going: RSI, dyslexia, dyspraxia or just rubbish handwriting. I didn’t get on with it […]