Category: picture

Little sketches with a Pilot Prera and Iroshizuku Kiri-Same

21 February 2014 By ian

Kiri-Same is a beautiful ink to write with and to sketch with. So delicate and shades beautifully. These were really quick little sketches that I did to try out the ink when I first got it. Look out next week for a review of this lovely ink.

Corfe Castle and the most photographed pub in the world

14 February 2014 By ian

The Greyhound pub has in its time claimed to be the most photographed pub in the world. It’s a lovely pub but not that special. Of course, everyone is photographing the rather spectacular ruined castle in the background. A castle has been on this site for a thousand years but it was destroyed in 1646 […]

Franklin-Christoph Replacement Nib (sketch)

24 January 2014 By ian

I’ve always felt that you find out if a company is any good not when everything is going well but when something goes wrong. When I received my rather beautiful Franklin-Christoph M27 fountain pen last week, the extra-fine nib it came with just wasn’t quite right. The ink wasn’t flowing properly at all. After a […]