Tag: calligraphy pen
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Japan stationary haul!
Last year we did a trip to Japan Osaka and I managed to get most of the stationary I wanted to buy – mostly the travellers notebooks and sheening ink. I was surprised that most of the stores were hard to find and whilst there was a lot of pens and highlighters not all stores…
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Line and wash painting book reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review. I’ve just got a haul of watercolour and ink painting books from the library as I’ve been delving into the world of calligraphy and sketch and wash. Modern Watercolour by Kristin Van Leuven This is an old goody that have popped up. Flipping through this…
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A little bit of shimmer makes everything magic
I had fun playing with some mica powder today. I had picked up some from temu last year and I’ve been meaning to experiment with adding it to ink to see if I could make my own shimmer ink. On my last trip to Japan I had picked up a few shimmer inks so I…
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Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists
Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…
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Travellers watercolor notebook
Loving the travellers notebooks. This is the watercolor paper version and for a 25% cotton watercolor paper it’s thick and can hold water washes, great for sketch and wash and landscape paintings. Portrait it held up under the multiple layers of glazing, and was ok with scrubbing. However at one point felt like I was…
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sketchbook – Camping and weekends
Another sketchbook done. This time I was experimenting with sketching with different water soluble inks and doing washes with them. Here is a flip through gif Here are a few of my favourites
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Travellers notebooks and calligraphy paper comparison
I just finished yet another Hanehmule travellers notebook and am averaging one every couple of months and have been using other notebooks for daily journaling. I would like to get back into bullet journaling but don’t want to waste my good paper so have been looking at cheaper alternatives and also experimenting with making my…
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Calligraphy pen haul the search for a good fine liner
So I keep getting ads for Toms studio the last fine liner you need to buy. It’s over $100 AUD plus shipping and I’m not even sure if I need or want to use a fine tip pen for sketching. But I kept looking at it and had to make up my Temu order to…
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