Permutations of good pen and ink pairings, and really bad eggs
My favorite part of working in analog – or living within a hobby like stationery – is greeting new experiences. Each new ink you buy offers a novel color option, and a new writing experience with every pen you put it in. Every new pen offers a unique writing experience with each of the inks in your collection.
Add to pen and ink combinations your paper choices. And nib sizes. Permutations of new experiences – and wonderful discoveries.
A brown ink with delusions of green
The weather turns humid and rainy this week. Such a turn calls for a warmer color palette.
Six inks live in pens this week. Agate, Lamy’s warm-toned grey ink, remains my primary writing ink. Two blues, one showy with sheen and another subdued cobalt. One dark green and one subdued green mirror my pairing of blues. And then there’s Vaikhari, which lives as a warm brown ink with delusions of being a green ink.
A journal entry a day keeps the doldrums away
Most weeks, pen meets paper in my personal journal three or four times. I wrote an entry every night this week. Six entries is double my usual personal writing.
I’ve journaled regularly for three years. Over that time, I’ve fallen into a system of structuring my entries.
Shimmer ink is a labor of love
Shimmer ink has been a double-edged sword for me. I’m drawn to the fun color match-ups available in many shimmer inks: black and silver, orange and gold, green and rose gold.
I also appreciate how shimmer inks are also viewable against glare. And my classroom receives a lot of glare most mornings in the spring. So Midnight Twinkle and Schwarz Rose will be easily scannable from afar even while my classroom is bathed in morning light.