Jim P.

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Since it’s a cold and snowy day, and I’m still playing with T&L inks, here’s some Shel Silverstein to show how they look in writing on Tomoe River paper.

Photo of a poem on paper under UV light. Each line is in a different color ink, glowing bright against dark paper: Snowball - Shel Silverstein I Made myself a snowball As perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for its head. Then last night it ran away, But first -- it wet the bed. From the top down, the color of each line is: Dark blue, orange-green, light blue, magenta, orange with a green outline, green with some blue, teal, dark blue again, magenta again, light blue again.

Every one is a stub or flex nib. From the top down:

  • Fomalhaut in FPR Jaipur v2 w/EF UltraFlex
  • Aldebaran in the same type, but reversed
  • Regulus in TWSBI ECO 1.1 Stub
  • Antares in TWSBI ECO 1.1 Stub
  • Aldebaran again, but not reverse
  • E=mc² in Prera CM
  • Quantum in Parker Vector FI

And here it is in natural light. They shade much nicer than I expected.

Photo of a poem on paper under natural light. Each line is in a different color ink: Snowball - Shel Silverstein I Made myself a snowball As perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for its head. Then last night it ran away, But first -- it wet the bed. From the top down, the color of each line is: Dark blue, orange, slate blue, fuchsia, orange-red, olive green, dark slate blue, dark blue again, fuchsia again, slate blue again. Most lines have some shading in the ink where parts of the letters appear to have a lighter tint.

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