{"id":1283,"date":"2015-08-04T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:05:11","slug":"just-what-are-all-these-goodies-from-the-passionate-pen-calligraphy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/just-what-are-all-these-goodies-from-the-passionate-pen-calligraphy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Just what are all these goodies from The Passionate Pen calligraphy conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the many fun things about the annual calligraphy conference is the\u00a0goody bag. It’s always packed with interesting tools, samples, information, and ideas. At The Passionate Pen, I never got a chance to go through the goody bag in any depth, so I packed it up with all my other art supplies at the end of the week. Today when I unpacked it in my studio\u00a0I couldn’t just put away all those shiny toys without finding out about them, at least a little. Here are the results of those explorations.<\/div>\n
Pencils were very big this year in the goody bag. We got three different kinds of broad-edge pencils, a wash pencil, a couple of sketch pencils, and more. Then there was the ZIG Artist Sketching Pen with its alcohol ink, the little ballpoint pen\/keyring, a stamp, 2 sets of Sakura Pigma Calligrapher markers (plus a 1mm set\u00a0that I picked up at the trade show in return for proof that I had experimented with the 2mm and 3mm sets), and a shocking pink gel pen.<\/div>\n
Other tools included artist soap, KISS stain remover (which many calligraphers\u00a0swear by), gum arabic powder, walnut ink crystals, Pearl Ex metallic powder, and a rubber stamp. It was fun trying most of this stuff out.<\/div>\n
And, um, I never did finish unpacking.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many fun things about the annual calligraphy conference is the\u00a0goody bag. It’s always packed with interesting tools, samples, information, and ideas. At The Passionate Pen, I never got a chance to go through the goody bag in any depth, so I packed it up with all my other art supplies at the … <\/p>\n

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