Yulia Glas loves luxe! She painted the background in a sumptuous emerald that has a glorious sheen. And as one tilts the pen in the light the colour shifts from emerald to teal with a hint of gold. It is the colour of velvet on a queen’s gown as she moves from...
Owls’ Landing is a magical place, or a space, that exists in Hanna Farmer’s imagination, and that so real I feel I have been there too. She has painted this space in a nighttime dusky blue, with owls in flight, carrying entire cities on their backs....
Yulia Glas loves dragonflies so much she has painted these ones against an emerald-sheen background. Inspired by the dragonflies’ gossamer wings that change colour in the sunlight, she painted the backdrop in a colour-shifting paint that transforms from an...
Yulia Glas adores this pen! She said she strained her eyes getting the details on the mermaid’s portrait just right, and when she realised she could not find a paintbrush fine enough to paint the maiden’s face, she resorted to using a pin to create the...
Have you ever dreamed of riding a dragon? Of a ferocious, fire-breathing, steampunk dragon allowing you to put a bridle on it and even kiss its snout? Ever since seeing the film, How to Train Your Dragon, I have wished it were possible! Hanna Farmer is not restricted...
Yulia Glas loves Chinese art, porcelain and jewellery, and knows that Imperial Jade is the most valuable of all gems, more rare and more expensive than diamonds. She painted this Imperial Dragon, showing deference to the decree in 1315 that only an emperor could wear...
It took Yulia Glas at least twice as long to paint this pen as any one she had painted to date. And no wonder! Not only did she paint two cats, two kittens, several mice, and thirty books on the pen, she also wrote the titles to all 30 books on their spines! From...
I cannot look at Val Myburgh’s painting of Space Pandas without cracking up. Her pandas are so deadpan, one nibbling on a piece of bamboo while riding in a rocket ship, another holding on to a balloon that is sailing in the sky. Inscrutable, while I am...
Lana le Roux’s The Joy of Blue brings to mind Keats’s sonnet celebrating the colour, which includes the lines: Blue! ‘Tis the life of waters–oceanAnd all its vassal streams: pools numberlessMay rage, and foam, and fret, but never canSubside if not to...
The colours on this fountain pen are jewel-like. Yulia Glas painted hydrangeas, but with petals that look as if they are made of stained glass. She achieved this effect by covering the pen body in gold leaf, then painting on top of it in a translucent ink, that has...
We are delighted that Lana le Roux has created her second art pen, this time called Romantic Ferns. She started by painting a dark mulberry background, then layering increasingly lighter shades of colour by pressing ferns on to paint (grading from aubergine to pale...
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