I’m back from Portland and the Pacific Northwest Pen Show and I think I was wired on adrenaline yesterday because today, I’m a zombie. Here’s my highlights: I forgot to take any photos of the show so check out Kimberly’s post on Pen Addict later this week for some photos of the event. I met…
For the last few years, Sailor North America releases a limited edition ink available exclusively at pen shows where the Sailor North America team is attending. We have tried to review these colors as we acquire them. 2024 2023 This year, the color chosen is a low saturation smoky bluish color with a multichromatic undertone…
I’m so excited to be teaching workshops at both the DC Supershow and the San Francisco Pen Show. I am reprising a few classes I’ve taught previously as well as introducing some new workshops. I will be teaching Swatch Your Inks in both DC and SF, a workshop I offered in the past which will…
I arrived home this past Sunday night after a whirlwind 12 days away. I’m still a bit jet-lagged, but I have wonderful photos and memories to look back at. And my travel journal. I won’t say I was super artistic this time, but adding some stickers and washi tape to my supplies did make my…
Friday, I land in Portland to help the Dromgoole’s at their tables at the Pacific Northwest Pen Show. Its my second year attending this show but its being held at a new location so it will be a new-ish experience for me. The show is technically only two days — Saturday and Sunday — with…
Releasing at the Pacific Northwest Pen Show, Dromgoole’s in unveiling two new shimmer inks. These inks are exclusively created for Dromgoole’s by Monteverde. Ice Queen and Ice Dragon are the same shade of deep blue-teal but Ice Queen features silver shimmer and Ice Dragon features gold shimmer. These inks end up looking like slightly different…
“Iroful” means “colorful,” — an amalgamation of the English word “color” for the Japanese word “iro” which also means color. The intention of the name is to convey the paper’s ability to show color cleanly and crisply. The Iroful Notebook ($9.75) is a standard A5 soft cover, 75gsm Japanese paper, made by Sakae Technical Paper,…
