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Pentel Pocket Brush Pen—New Ink Colors
Finally, at last, we’ve all wanted it for so long and now we get it—the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen can now be purchased with gray or sepia ink as well as black ink! These are Pentel’s hard-bodied pens, the fountain-pen type pen with a synthetic brush tip. (Some readers seem to be confused about which […]
If You Love A Paper—Draw More, Not Less—Don’t Save It for Another Day
Above: Quick pear sketches using the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen (PPBP) in a handmade journal made with defunct printmaking paper that I'm totally besotted with. Slowly, inevitably, I am working my way through this journal I made in the early 2000s with the last of a now defunct printmaking paper. It is so fabulous not […]
Sometimes It’s Time To Stop Painting
Left: Selfie made while looking in the bathroom mirror.8 inch square journal on its side vertically. (Defunct printmaking paper.) PPBP and some gouache. Sometimes you start painting and you like the colors and even the direction, but you know it's time to stop.