Sketches from Bath
24 July 2015A nice relaxing afternoon in a park in the beautiful city of Bath. In the background, Bath are beating Gloucester at rugby. Calepino notebook, Kaweco Liliput fountain pen, Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-Same ink
Month: July 2015
Word Notebooks Review
23 July 2015The Word notebook is a 48 page pocket notebook (3.5″ by 5.5”) available with a range of different colours in packs of three. This one was sent to me by Pocket Notebooks. Pocket Notebooks is a new company selling a good range of notebooks that also offers a subscription based notebook service in the UK. […]
Montblanc Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green Ink Review
21 July 2015This is a really lovely dark green that lives up to its name (the seaweed part, at least). It shades well and dries quickly. Here I am doodling the Inkling. (I didn’t have much of the sample left so it was difficult dipping the pen into it to write its name.) Many thanks to Chris […]
Allegory The Bard Fountain Pen Review
20 July 2015The Bard is a wood-barrelled fountain pen made by the Allegory Handcrafted Goods Company. It costs $130 direct from Allegory but Massdrop, who sent me this pen to review, will be (or are currently, by the time this is published) offering the pen for a reduced price. This has been a very difficult pen to […]
Street Gossip (sketch)
10 July 2015Some ladies having a chat on a street corner in Barcelona. Daler-Rowney Artists (watercolour) Pencils, Winsor & Newton Bockington paper