Depending on the month, the links I find will lean heavily based on trends. Last month was planner release month so the Notebook & Paper category was poppin’. This month is Inktober so the Art & Creativity category is where the action is. Next month, with NaNoWriMo, the Notebook & Paper category will get busy again but Ink and Pens will probably get their fair share of attention too.
No matter what type of creativity excites you, there is a project or way to make pen, pencil, ink and paper help to make your goals and dreams a reality. If you bake or cook, document your recipe tweaks, successes and failures. Or draw your meals, prep or recipes. If you are a performer of music, stage or movement, write about your experiences. Document future performances, choreograph, orchestrate, write lyrics, plays, poems or music. Create costume ideas, sets or stage direction. No one has to see what you write but putting your thoughts on paper means you will remember and can build on your ideas. Make your own “30 days of set decorating” or costume design or catchy beats or whatever will help you on the path to your dream — big or small.
Pens:
- What Everyone Hates About Fountain Pens (via Fountain Pen Follies)
- Lamy Safari 2019 Blue Macaron Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
- Sailor Pro Gear Classic Graphite Lighthouse with Zoom Architect Nib: A Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Video Review: Kasama Una Fountain Pen (via nib & ink)
- Too many pens: Kaco Retro fountain pen review (via Too Many Pens)
- Review: M205 Star Ruby (2019) (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
Ink:
- Ink Review #860: Robert Oster Cosmic Swirl (via Mountain of Ink)
- KWZ Warsaw Dreaming (via Inkdependence!)
- Diamine Inkvent Calendar (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) (via Nick Stewart’s FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- Diamine Ancient Copper Ink (via Gourmet Pens)
Pencils:
- Pencil Review: Staedtler Norica HB (via Polar Pencil Pusher)
- Throwback Pencil Review: Eberhard Faber American EcoWriter, No. 2 (via Polar Pencil Pusher)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Kickstster: Sam Jayne 2020 Planner (via Print & Pattern)
- The Best Monthly Planners for 2020 (via JetPens Blog)
- Philofaxy glossary on Facebook by Anita (via Philofaxy)
- The Grimoire: A Not-So-Spooky Notebook Idea (via Rhodia Drive)
- Going Small with Epsilon (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Drawers (via Austin Kleon)
Art & Creativity:
- 4 tips to trigger creativity (via Flow Magazine)
- MIYA Watercolor Review – Solid Water Colors Palette (via Doodlewash)
- This Artist’s Deli, Where Everything Is Made of Felt and Too Adorable to Resist (via Hyperallergic)
- Este MacLeod Flower Collage Online Course (via Print & Pattern)
- Tiny watercolor box for travels (via José Naranja)
- Watercolor Palette Update (via RozWoundUp)
- Sketching with Water-soluble Ink (via Parka Blogs)
- De Atramentis coloured ink sketch (via Parka Blogs)
- InkTober 2019 Check-in: Rough Start (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Embroidered Calligraphy by Olga Kovalenko Plays with Notions of Time and Gesture (via Colossal)
- Lisk Feng Shows How to Use Adobe Fresco App in Skillshare Class (via Brown Paper Bag)
- Cartoonist Illustrates the Life of Vincent van Gogh in Colorful Comic (via My Modern Met)
- Review: Stillman & Birn Beta Sketchbook (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
Other Interesting Things:
- How to successfully revive older typefaces while taking in the significance of the original (via It’s Nice That)
- Method in Madness: The podcast combining design advice, productivity tips and a very personal weight loss story (via Creative Boom)
- Reusable Bags to Replace Disposable Ones (via Tools and Toys)
- ‘The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands’ by Huw Lewis-Jones (via Tools and Toys)
- The Problem with Busy (via MacSparky)
- A Public Declaration (via From the Pen Cup)
- Becoming the “sumgai” at the 2019 London Pen Show (via UK fountain pens)
- Free printable classroom posters and hang up inspiring words (via Think.Make.Share.)
