Aurora Blue ink review
11 March 2014Aurora Blue is a nice fairly saturated blue ink. There’s nothing that sets it apart from most other blue inks as far as colour goes but it’s good and wet and stands out well on the page. Here I am doodling the Inkling. Thank you to The Writing Desk for sending me this sample to […]
Kutsuwa Stad Sharpest Compass review
10 March 2014In what may well be a first for a pen blog, I present here a review of a compass. It isn’t just a compass though. It is also a mechanical pencil. This video shows the rather groovy way the Kutsuwa Stad Sharpest Compass (that really is its name) converts from pencil to compass and back […]
Koh-I-Noor Toison D’Or Clutch Pencil 2mm 5900 review and a sketch
7 March 2014This is the catchily named Koh-I-Noor Toison D’Or Clutch Pencil 2mm 5900. Toison D’Or means Golden Fleece and that means that this is a posh pencil (at a very reasonable price). Toison D’Or is French; Koh-I-Noor is Persian(?) for Mountain of Light (it’s a diamond) and the company is Czech. Linguistically speaking this pencil is […]
Rhodia Webnotebook (A5, lined) notebook review
6 March 2014Rhodia paper (made by Clairefontaine, if we’re being particular) is the paper by which I judge all others. It is lovely to use with fountain pens. It’s very hard to get pens to bleed or feather or even show through. Inks shine. It’s the paper that makes the Rhodia Webnotebook wonderful. Webnotebooks (silly name), also […]