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New “Vintage” Set. 10 new colors with sepia undertones. Some sample colors: classic gold, aged champagne, copper pipe.

Don't miss this great price! (This is a correction to our catalog price!)

Create professional quality scores and embossed lines by hand in seconds! Strongly recommended by Michael Jacobs! A sell out at this summmer's Letters Mingle Souls conference! 

The Pilot Parallel Pen is a remarkable and durable tool that offers crisp edges, sharp hairlines and a totally reliable, smooth flow of ink for beginners and seasoned lettering artists. In a typical dip or cartridge pen, ink travels through one or more slits in the nib and feeds across the writing edge.  Skipping (non-delivery of the ink) can occur, particularly in larger pens. The parallel pen has a totally different construction. Ink flows between two layers of metal lying on top of each other, delivering ink to the entire writing edge without fail. Turn the pen on its corner and the pen writes a .5mm monoline -great for your handwriting, flourishing (till your arm gets tired!), making high contrast thin strokes (see K. Malmsten’s outlined alphabet upper right) and pen manipulation. You can also blend colors by touching the writing edge of one pen to a second pen loaded with a complementary color.

Choose 1.5mm, 2.4mm, 3.8mm, or 6.0mm.  Each Pen comes with 1 red and 1 black cartridge and a bladder/converter, $17.95 ea. 2 or more, $16.95 each.

Parallel Pen Wizardry by Brenda Broadbent.  Our Parallel Pen Wizardry Book begins where Pilot's excellent instructions for each Parallel Pen end. In these pages you'll find cartridge tips & tricks, instructions for using other inks (acrylics, watercolor, gouache), writing & drawing possibilities (monoline & flourishes, high contrast thicks & thins, color blending, the effect of paper, expressive & experimental examples), writing on fabric, comments from teachers, a gallery of examples, a Gothicized Italic alphabet from Sheila Waters, Gothic Alphabets by Ward Dunham and an Uncial alphabet by Gina Jonas. Examples for all these ideas came from the hands of this stunning group of contributors: Judy Melvin, Martha Ericson, Judith Angelo, Suzanne Moore, Alice Koeth, Carol Pallesen, Sara Frank, Mike Gold, Gale Barbieri, Collene Kalb, Stephen Rapp and Victoria Pittman. You'll discover lots of techniques but don't miss Gale Barbieri's experiments with loading Duo Embellishing Adhesive into the pen barrel and covering her crisp writing with metallic foils, PearlEx and ultra fine glitters. Gale also discovered that Dr. Martin's liquid watercolor Hydrus has the perfect consistency for the pen as well as the lightfast qualities of fine watercolor. Profusely illustrated! 8.5"x11", 24 pp., full color.

Congratulations, Annie! 160 pp., 10" x 10", pb.

We are delighted to bring back Charles Pearce's two excellent instruction manuals, out of print for nearly 10 years. Impeccable exemplars. Beginning exercises, six alphabets (name alphabets, , Roman, uncial, foundational, black letter, italic) rhythm and spacing, design and layout all packed into this beautifully designed, compact book. Excellent choice for an inexpensive class manual. 32 pp, 8"x10". Special price for classes/study groups: $8.95 each for 10 or more. Credit will be applied as we process your order.

We couldn’t resist the 172 colors and all the talk we hear about these sparkling watercolors. Thanks to Roann Mathias who enthusiastically recommends them and gave us a few tips. Roann puts a few drops of water into the pan and lets it sit a minute or two before mixing with a brush. She then pours the mixed liquid into a dinky dip or mixing pan and uses it as she would gouache, feeding her pen with a brush or dipping. She also loads Twinkling H20s into Parallel Pens giving her incredible color possibilities! Leave the lids off your used pans so they can dry for later reconstitution. Roann loves how wonderfully these paints flow through a nib and the amazing range of colors. We offer six different sets of 24 colors each in 5 gm jars. And two new 12 color sets. Specify sets by number below photo. State set number(s) $39.95 each. 3 or more sets, $37.95 ea.

Thank you June Beasley for making these gleaming cards available. Striking layers of color and letters. 5 1/4" x 5 1/8".Set of 8 cards & envelopes by Dick Beasley. Two each of four designs.

What a bargain! 24 rich opaque colors arranged on four stacking discs for compact, portable color! Clear cover has six sections to use as a palette.

Caran D'ache Water-soluble, Metallic Pencils (Classicolor Series)  These and the Derwent Metallic Pencils are water soluble and metallic colors. The Derwent pencils are softer; harder Caran D'ache pencils let you get and keep a sharper point for details. Delicious. Set of 12 Pencils: Gold, dark gold, green gold, silver, bronze, scarlet, pink, violet, phthalo blue, grey, phthalo green, silver blue.