Sailor Kenshin
May 9th, 2013, 09:17 AM
There was this post on another fp forum that both rattled me and got me thinking. This person who started the thread wanted to write to some pen pals, but was stuck in the house with NO PAPER.
The horror!
What if that happened to ME? What would I do? How would I cope?
Never mind the stacks of notepads and journals and typing paper you see on my shelves. Look the other way for now.
I set out to test unusual writing surfaces. The insides of junk mail envelopes sometimes took fountain pen ink so well I was astonished. As a side note, I began cutting up junk mail for use as shopping and to-do lists. Why use Rhodia for that sorta thing?
Uhm...toilet paper wrapping paper. Kind of like writing on that gift-wrapping tissue (now there's another thing I have to try!)
The inside of a stick-o-gum wrapper works, but I wouldn't risk a pen that cost more than five bucks. I liked how tracing paper and artist vellum worked.
This is my latest test. I had the book lying around to use as a blotter for gluing stuff. A newspaper might work even better....smaller print.
Yah....my handwriting. I was holding the brush really awkwardly. At least that's my story.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7295/8723640534_87d578584b_z.jpg
You think this is how the Collyer Brothers got started? O_O
The horror!
What if that happened to ME? What would I do? How would I cope?
Never mind the stacks of notepads and journals and typing paper you see on my shelves. Look the other way for now.
I set out to test unusual writing surfaces. The insides of junk mail envelopes sometimes took fountain pen ink so well I was astonished. As a side note, I began cutting up junk mail for use as shopping and to-do lists. Why use Rhodia for that sorta thing?
Uhm...toilet paper wrapping paper. Kind of like writing on that gift-wrapping tissue (now there's another thing I have to try!)
The inside of a stick-o-gum wrapper works, but I wouldn't risk a pen that cost more than five bucks. I liked how tracing paper and artist vellum worked.
This is my latest test. I had the book lying around to use as a blotter for gluing stuff. A newspaper might work even better....smaller print.
Yah....my handwriting. I was holding the brush really awkwardly. At least that's my story.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7295/8723640534_87d578584b_z.jpg
You think this is how the Collyer Brothers got started? O_O