Link Love: SF Pen Love

Friends of the blog… okay, lots of friends of the blog… are headed to the SF Pen Show this weekend. We wanted to remind you that there are classes and workshop all weekend. We’d like to particularly point out, our pal Julia is teaching a class on Sunday but there has been some confusion about how to register and pay for the class. So… we thought we’d straighten things out right here.

Julia is teaching Inkwash Workshop: Painting with Ink, Sunday from 9:00-11:00am. Tuition is $75. The class is limited to ten people so sign-up ASAP. Julia needs a minimum number of attendees in order hold the class so if you were thinking about taking this class, email her TODAY to sign-up. There’s a link on the SF Pen Show web site to email her and register for the class. If you take the class, say hello to Juila for me.

Don’t forget to ask Julia about the best kept taco secret of the SF Pen Show.

Pens:

• A Brief History of Glass Pens (via Yoseka Stationery)
• Serious Nibbage Snippet: Pelikan Souverän M1000 Oblique Triple Broad Nib Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
• Scribo Piuma fountain pen review (via Too many pens)
• Fountain Pens From My Collection: Kaweco AL Sport (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Video-Review: Graf von Faber-Castell Tamitio (via  Scrively)
• Platinum Pocket Nibs (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Kaweco Perkeo Demonstrator (via dapprman)
• Drillog reinvents the glass dip pen (via UK fountain pens)
• The demise of a Delike (via mnmlscholar)
• Parker 51 Fountain Pen – A classic reimagined (via Gourmet Pens)
• TWSBI Swipe – Over-Engineered or Welcome Innovation? (via The Pen Addict)

Ink:

• Cross Blue Black (via Mountain of Ink)
• Pennonia Inks Part 6 (via Mountain of Ink)
• Lennon Tool Bar Pineapple on Rhodia (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Do Private Reserve Infinity Inks Really Work? (via Pen Chalet)
• Visconti Van Gogh Inks swatch tests (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Tono & Lims Earth Contact Line: Citrulline (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Insights from Helmut Zeilinger (via pencil talk)
• Uni Alpha Gel Switch Mechanical Pencil Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Quick Look: Blackwing Non-Photo Blue Pencil (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Review: Kokuyo Dual Color Pencils (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Stalogy Editor’s Series 1/2 Year Notebook A5 Green Grid Limited Edition Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Early thoughts on the Ryman soft cover notebook. (via Fountain pen blog)
• Working Tools 69. Merging the analogue and digital (via Stuart Lennon)
• Ten Journals (via From the Pen Cup)

Art & Creativity:

• Artist Stuart Semple Just Invented Blink the World’s Blackest Black Ink (via My Modern Met)
• Fragmented Blocks of Color and Texture Overlap in Lui Ferreyra’s Layered Portraits (via Colossal)
• Crocheted Penne, Ravioli, and Spaghetti Recreate Pasta as Fiber-Rich Renditions (via Colossal)
• Brush update (via Liz Steel)
• 50 Graphic Design Terms To Help You Understand the Field (via My Modern Met)
• Why Early Modern European Artists Were Obsessed With Shells (via Hyperallergic)

Other Interesting Things:

• Girl Scouts Reveals New Caramel Brownie Cookie for 2022 (via My Modern Met)
• Buy It For Life: Writing Tools and Bags (via JetPens Blog)
• My Experience at the 2021 DC Pen Show! (via Notebook Joy)

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