Category: pen practice
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An impertinent start
When a Tachikawa School-G is good, it’s very, very, good. When it’s bad, it’s horrid. I have named my Tachikawa School-G after Akane Tendou, the “uncute” and unlikeable female lead of anime classic, Ranma 1/2. For the first week I had her, even though I plugged in a brand spankin’ new ink cartridge, she just…
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Rome wasn’t built in a day
Tips for beginning calligraphers, from a beginner calligrapher. I swore that I would not buy new pens and inks until my calligraphy got better. I also figured I’d be kinder to myself and start with Roman lettering and calligraphic print instead of jumping into Copperplate. I used ye olde ‘Writing & Illuminating & Lettering’ to…
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Rome wasn't built in a day
Tips for beginning calligraphers, from a beginner calligrapher. I swore that I would not buy new pens and inks until my calligraphy got better. I also figured I’d be kinder to myself and start with Roman lettering and calligraphic print instead of jumping into Copperplate. I used ye olde ‘Writing & Illuminating & Lettering’ to…
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Akashiya Sai versus Pentel Aquash
I took a leap of faith and ordered Akashiya Sai watercolor brushpens from Artmedia Trading, Philippines. While I learned the hard way that Multiply marketplace has yet to catch up with the times (they don’t have a ‘saved orders’ page the way ebay does), thankfully Artmedia got the order and processed it quickly. Within 24…
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Pen Love
Good writing is part craft, part distraction that isn’t facebook. I thought the distraction would be photography, then I discovered that the local bookstores carried brush pens for as low as PHP28. It started innocently enough. Doodle. “Oooh” and “aaah” at the brush strokes. Write a quote in script (and face the horror of finding…