This review was first posted on the Pen Company blog. I’m including it here for the sake of keeping this site comprehensive. It’s almost a year since I wrote this review but my views haven’t changed. This Lamy Studio is an all-metal fountain pen with a shiny metal grip and a soft lacquered brushed metal […]
Continuing my experiments with paint. Winsor & Newton watercolours, Winsor & Newton Bockington paper
The Staedtler Mars Lumograph is a wooden pencil available in grades from 8B to 6H. They cost about £1 each but at the time of writing Cult Pens are selling a sketching kit with six pencils, a sharpener and an eraser for £4.50, which is half price. (Cult Pens are not sponsoring this post. I […]
I want a small sketch kit that I can just grab and take with me without any fuss or bother. This is what I’m using at the moment and it’s working out pretty well. Everything is kept in this rather splendid Nomadic PE-06 pen case. From left to right: Daler-Rowney Artists (watercolour) Pencils; Sailor Fude […]
A beautiful rich reddish orange ink from Diamine. Lots of shading, lots of loveliness. Because it’s very free flowing, a wet nib puts down a lot of ink and so leads to long dry times. It dries quickly under other circumstances. Here I am doodling the Inkling.