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Review: Pilot Iroshizuku Take-Sumi ink (Bamboo Charcoal, Black)
Here's the Take-Sumi (Bamboo Charcoal, 竹ç‚) black ink from the Pilot Iroshizuku series of ink. This ink is designed and made in Japan by Pilot for use in fountain pens. The Take-Sumi comes in a...
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Going to my first Fountain Pen Meet (Dec 2014)
Today, I went to my first Fountain Pen Meet which was organized by the Facebook group Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers. They have these gatherings every month where collectors would come together and talk...
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Review: Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay Black India Ink
Dr. Ph. Martins (facebook) is a brand of the inks from USA company Salis International Inc. They have been making art products for more than 80 years. Other than black, they offer other colours as...
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Review: Daler Rowney Calli Calligraphy Black Ink
Daler Rowney is one of UK's art materials manufacturer. The Daler Rowney's Calli is a calligraphy and India ink made in England. It's an acrylic-based ink designed specifically for calligraphy. The...
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Comparison of different black inks
Here are comparisons of different black inks I've used so far. I'll keep adding to the list. Top half of the square represents one layer of ink, and the bottom two layers. Here's the quick rundown of...
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Book Review: The Unknown Berenice Abbott
A lifetime of photosA beautiful box set of five books with 699 whole page tritone and four color photos. Like other Steidl books, for example Bruce Davidson or Gordon Parks, this set on Berenice Abbott...
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Book Review: Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete Reprint, 10 Volumes...
Small mag, big influenceDavid Travers writes in his essay, in the eighty page supplement that comes with the 1945--1954 issues, that A&A was best known and almost exclusively so for the twenty year...
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Book Review: 75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen
It's MARVELousAnother giant (and weighty) leap for comics history as Taschen delivers the goods on Marvel. The huge books follows the same format as the story of DC Comics Taschen published in 2010...
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Book Preview: Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade by Wilfred Santiago
Oh my goodness! A comic book about Michael Jordan?! Well, publisher Fantagraphics will be releasing this book in January 2015. It's a graphic biography about the greatest basketball player of all...
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Book Review: Inside The Art Studio: A Guided Tour of 37 Artists' Creative Spaces
I must admit there's more than a tinge of envy as I looked at the pictures of the art studios featured in the book. They look so beautiful and full of creativity waiting to happen. Inside the Art...
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Packing list for Malacca Trip 2014
I'll be going to Malacca for a sketching trip on Friday. Like my previous trips, I've drawn up my packing list. It's always fun to draw the packing list. I use previous lists as reference on what to...
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Book Review: Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste,...
Collage is authored by Danielle Krysa, the writer at popular art and design website The Jealous Curator. Krysa has also released another book earlier this year called Creative Block which I've also...
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Book Review: Mechs, Robots and Other Cool Stuff by Patrick Ballesteros
Here's the sketchbook of Patrick Ballesteros, a freelance illustrator and concept artist from Los Angeles, California. Ballesteros is a reader of Parka Blogs (thanks!) and has sent me his new...
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Book Review: Color Me Calm: 100 Coloring Templates for Meditation and Relaxation
This is a review copy sent to me either by Race Point Publishing or Quarry Books from the Quarto Publishing Group. I'm not sure because the shipping notice attached wasn't particularly clear. Anyway,...
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Book Review: Creaturae Vol 1 by Patrick Larme
Here's the sketchbook of French cartoonist and illustrator Patrick Larme. It's kind of him to mail me this book because I would not have discovered it on my own. Creaturae Vol 1 is a 66-page...
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Malacca Sketchwalk 2014 Video
I'm just back from Malacca for a short holiday. Check out what I was up to in the video below.Tags:Â videosketchwalkmalacca trip 2014malaccatravel
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Book Review: The Art of Destiny
Beautiful DestinyThe Art of Destiny is a nice companion art book for the game. It's quite a large 216-page hardcover with a non-glossy smooth surface dust jacket. The paper and printing quality are...
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Photos from Malacca sketch trip 2014
Here are the photos from my recent trip to Malacca on 12-15 Dec 2014. This was my small hotel room at Explorer Hotel. It's probably a 10-15 minutes walk to the busy touristy area of Malacca. The free...
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Sketches from Malacca trip 2014
Below are the sketches I drew while in Malacca, Malaysia.It wasn't easy as the weather was quite hot. Best time to draw is always in the morning or evening. Not just because it's more cooling, but you...
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Book Review: Kult Issue 15: Machines
I was at Basheer Graphic Books buying some artbooks when this book was slipped into my hands.Kult Magazine is a quarterly publication based in Asia, and from the address it seems in Singapore. It was...
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