Fountain Pens, Cursive Writing & Penmanship

 If you put "fountain pens" into my Search Bar, 

you'll find previous posts about them.

I've been taking notes about the history of pens, writing tools 

& penmanship from a book, 

Script & Scribble, The Rise & Fall of Handwriting. 

Using fountain pens

is "Slow Writing"  compared to computer tapping in the way that

eating whole foods is "Slow Food" compared to eating fast food.

I so enjoy the tactile feel of ink flowing through a fountain pen nib

on quality paper.

The variety of pens & inks these days is amazing. 

I mostly write with a range of blue to green inks, 

though I still enjoy good old black, 

especially waterproof, so that I can add watercolors.

They are simply one of my very very favorite tools.

They have been since I wrote with 

my 1st Schaeffer cartridge pen at age 11.

Visit Goulet Pens if you want to know more about fountain pens!

Café With a Fellow Sketcher

I met one of The Sketchers at a café downtown...

She is our steadiest & most persistent member

& a total inspiration.

It's so nice to sketch with someone else...

We draw, we chat a little...it frees my process...

Takes the pressure off that my brain wants to impose.

That's my Kakuno fountain pen 

filled with Platinum Carbon waterproof ink. 

The pen is very inexpensive,

but draws super well on Moleskine sketch journal paper. 

It felt like the pen was drawing rather than me!

The Tiny Bucket & My Obsession with Aqua

 A friend gave me one of her hand dyed & sewn 

Tiny Buckets. She's selling them & LOTS of other

Beautiful items. Click here to see them!

Beth's Tiny Buckets are adorable inside & out.

She knew just what colors I love.

Sea greens. 

Sometimes our Maine ocean shows them beautifully.

(Other times there are all kinds of 

turquoise blues, grays, even violets...)

I have a lot of teals/aquas/turquoises.

The first item in my collection was a gift from my parents.

 Clothes, accessories, bags, pouches, 

gloves, earrings, scarves, my painted designs~~ 

& even fountain pens...

 

...and fountain pen ink!!

The Goulet Pen Company has tons & tons of pens 

in all colors, & a good share of the blue-greens.

They have over 600 inks with swatches galore!

You don't even have to buy whole bottles,

they sell samples in Tiny Bottles! 

Do you have a favorite Color that you collect or 

perhaps are obsessed with?