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Nibs With Names!

There were many hundreds of millions of steel pen nibs manufactured between 1840 and the late 1940s. They were all people had to write with and were a huge improvement over the swan, goose and crow feathers which had been used since the Early Middle Ages. They only started to truly be superceded by fountain […]

More August Garden Sketches

It’s been quite warm this August for Humboldt County, so nice weather to sit outside and sketch. Above: “Silk Road Lilies” Kakuno fountain pen with Prismacolor pencils. I drew them directly with the pen, no pencil underdrawing in a Stillman and Birn Zeta sketchbook.