Pen-cil

This is my new pen-cil. I got it at Muji. It is both a ball-point pen and a mechanical pencil and is designed beautifully. I've been using it a lot and have even begun to use it to do some line drawings of architectural details/spaces. The pencil part supposedly takes .5 or .7 graphite (I like.7) and the pen part writes as smooth as butter.

Translucent, so you can see its inner workings.

Here, you can see the pen and the pencil inside the fuselage of the pen-cil.

A turn of the clip at the end makes either the pen or the pencil emerge from the tip.

The Pencil

The Pen

I'm back

So, it's been a while since I posted last. My Internet has been restored to its former glory and I'm ready to go again. Things have been a bit slow in the studio lately. We've been working on some prints for Nightingale Press and other things have been distracting me from my work these days. I should be back on the once a week posts now, however, and am close to a breaking point with the installations I'm working on. Below are the best of the most recent drawings I've completed.

Long Time Gone

It's been a while since I've posted. The main reason is because we haven't had an Internet connection for the past three weeks. It is very spotty, and right now I am utilizing a rare window of connectivity and I have no idea how long it will last, could be 2 hours, could be 2 minutes. As soon as we get our connection fixed, I'm going to resume the once a week posts.

Not much work has happened over the last couple of weeks. My parents came to visit, then I had to go out of town for work, then Nicole and I got really sick. So, lately it's been about how to deal with stretches of time without being able to work at all. I think it's important to keep your momentum going. As long as you still have that excitement about the stuff you're working on, it can even help to break. Lately I've been chomping at the bit to get back to work. I finished two drawings yesterday, which turned out really good. I'm very pleased with my latest drawings, I'll post some images soon.

In the meantime, take a look at these dioramas. I took these images when we visited the American Museum of Natural history. I think they are good things for me to think about.