While I was at the mall today, I bought a notepad and artist’s marker for about $3. Some kids started asking why I needed so much stationery. It was long ago when ink and pen were invented but paper had to wait till much later. People wrote on pot shards, goat skin, bark etc. But when paper finally arrived big time, they knew that the pen had to improve, and to date we have a fine selection of nibs, points, and brushes. This is not to mention the invention of the book, and engraving which led to mass printing and dissemination of creativity. Later, the scanner and smartphone would take over this via apps and broadband.
The point I’m making is that with all sorts of media nowadays, people forget if and when they have something specific to say, write, type or draw. People convey the ordinary, and also the obscene extremes. But what art is, what documenting an idea is, is buried under heaps of targeted advertising ingenuity and a plethora of marketing, pandering to vanities, etc. At the same time, the disadvantaged will scribble on scraps with scratchy BICs and discouraged, never take their ambitions to the heights they might achieve.
Through my explorations, I have found my Parker Jotter and 10RM BookXcess notepad to be a good match. Nobody should use a Jotter’s French ink on Lotus’s ruled pads and manage a smile. I also found Daler-Rowney pads to be extremely inhibitive. I loved Zequence rollup A6 square ruled pads which I filled with sketches inked by my Rotrings. Now I have a new sketching setup, with a Kurecolor marker and Herlitz pad. And I wonder if I will be creative again?
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