Tag Archives: nibs

tracing, revivification and travel

By elise | Published: March 26, 2009

I have three things to say. 1. I love my lightbox. (Thank you Peter, lightbox-maker.) 2. I am gratefully much less dead now. 3. I will be in Sydney this weekend for ASA madness (Barbara Jefferis Award, AGM and Colin Simpson Memorial lecture – being given by the eloquent Shaun Tan) stretching from Friday evening [...]

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the nib bears fruit

By elise | Published: March 12, 2009

And here’s what the nib did… It was lovely to use. I found that varying the pressure gave the most beautiful lines. It looks almost like brushwork. This is one of the possible dinkusses (dinki?) to go in the Bloodflower novel, for which I just finished the maps.