I don't always feel like adding a paper backing.  When printing notecards or even ATCs , by leaving that off, it takes less ink.  Plus I...

One of our neighbors with children raise Monarchs and while Terry was out walking Miya, he was called over to check out butterflies emerging...

One of the things I like to do are charts on various paper surfaces based on how I use or apply various mediums. I worked this chart in the ...

One of the things I do is save all my blog posts.  My blog is an extension to my actual journals where space is limited on a page for variou...

It used to be I spent all my time in one dedicated location.............the sunroom.  That's back when we had eight people, 5 dogs, and ...

Yesterday I worked on a watercolor sketch of my Golden Pothos plant.  As I worked, I took a few photographs over a two hour period as I leis...

For over the last two decades, my number one shopping source has been Amazon.  I bought practically everything through them from clothing to...

One of my close friends sent me a photo a couple mornings ago of her pen with a Zebra G nib replacing the standard nib.  She used a Noodler...

Thought I would compare my two higher end pens to one another - Falcon vs Vanishing Point. Pilot Falcon - "Soft" Gold Nib with R...

I've been asked this question several times and have had trouble really expressing my own thoughts or feelings on the subject....until n...

The more I work in this sketchbook, the more I realize it's not going to be for me.  There are too many other sketchbooks I like better ...

Yesterday I stopped at our local art supply shop called DK Art Supplies.  I hadn't been there since they expanded mid last year. I was...

Today I've been sketching how I feel......the battle I often fight as I try to retrain how I think and feel about various things.  I...

I SHOULD have known better than jumping into filling SEVERAL pens with a new ink brand claiming to be safe for fountain pens.  I SHOULD have...

Although I try to sketch every day, there are spells I hit where I just don't feel like it or life gets in the way of doing so.  With me...

Tucked away in a drawer, I found these Zebra pens and thought I would check them out in two of the journals the Ink Joys did so poorly in. ...

Rather than just testing on one other paper surface, I did so on two as mentioned below.  I really was hoping to find it was just the paper ...

After the good results I've had with the PaperMate stick pen I have, I purchased a package of Ink Joy 500 RTs in various colors as recom...