Mixed up my first batch of manuscript gesso, from the recipe in Patricia Lovett's book on medieval illumination. #calligraphy #humanArt #artistsOfMastodon
Stationery Studies
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Mixed up my first batch of manuscript gesso, from the recipe in Patricia Lovett's book on medieval illumination. #calligraphy #humanArt
小羊1.0黑色中性筆楷書練習~ #calligraphy #funny #練字 #中性筆 #書法 #handwriting #art #中文 #漢字 #書道 #書道家 #硬筆書法 #草書
硬筆書法教學:楷書“院”VS草書“院” #calligraphy #funny #練字 #中性筆 #書法 #handwriting #art #中文 #漢字 #書道 #書道家 #硬筆書法 #草書
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Saturday book binding results. Used new method for making book cloth, and it came out really well. Still grappling with warping from excessive glue / bad method when 'casing in'. Gotta figure that out. But otherwise good!
art Inktober day 5 “Smack” (Drawn with fountain pen, 4” x 6”) The Emma C. Berry, the last surviving wooden sailing well smack in the US, built in Noank CT in 1866, currently at Mystic Seaport CT.
More daily ink drawings 💚 That green from Lennon Tool Bar has found a permanent home in the extra-fine Preppy, I just keep refilling that one. The blue ink to the left has shimmer - I'll jave to take some angled pictures to show it properly!
#Inktober current kit. I've been writing almost exclusively with fountain pens for about a year so I've been using those, and then basically a damp rag for fills and such. I don't have many physical art supplies with me on the road since I usually do digital, just stuff I happen to have with me XP
some seashell sketches using Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi fountain pen ink
Oh hey, I can access this account again. Neat. Used the Platinum Preppy fountain pen since I had recommended it to a friend 🖋️ The general consensus is correct in that it's a reliable and cheap pen. No need to recommend the Lamy 2000 or something like that as a first fountain pen!
Might as well start on another Parker. The only part of working in vacumatics that I'm not a fan of is removing the old diaphragm pellet.
Preparing for a trip to French Polynesia next year with material explorations and thumbnails • Lamy Safari fountain pen with a Pentel Vistage Water Brush (filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same gray ink) and Prismacolor pencils on brown Stonehenge paper • 7.5” x 11” • 2026 • #urbansketchers
Preparing for a trip to French Polynesia next year with material explorations and thumbnails • Lamy Safari fountain pen with a Pentel Vistage Water Brush (filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same gray ink) and Prismacolor pencils on brown Stonehenge paper • 7.5” x 11” • 2026 • #urbansketchers