{"id":21861,"date":"2023-01-11T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T02:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=21861"},"modified":"2023-01-11T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T02:46:39","slug":"letters-by-lydia-karin-brushmarker-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/01\/11\/letters-by-lydia-karin-brushmarker-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters by Lydia: Karin Brushmarker Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today we’re taking a look at what are probably my favorite pens of all time: the Karin Brushmarker Pro.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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These are notorious in the handlettering community for being some of the best brush pens out there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they have the price to match, but we’ll get into that later.<\/p>\n

Karin is a Polish company that, as far as I know, literally only makes brushpens.\u00a0 They have three different types, the decobrush, decobrush metallic, and the brushmarker pro.\u00a0 The two types of decobrush are opaque and good for dark surfaces, and the brushmarker pro is their version of your standard brush pen, which what I have.\u00a0 They’re super juicy, pigmented, and high quality.\u00a0 The tips are made of nylon instead of felt or bristles, which makes them extra bouncy and durable.\u00a0 They can fray a bit, but it takes them a lot longer than felt tip pens.\u00a0 For example, when you look below at the swatches I included, you can see that some of the pens can get a finer upstroke than others.<\/p>\n

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They make 72 colors total, but I only have the small set, which comes with 26 colors (swatches above) and a blender pen.\u00a0 If you don’t know, a blender pen is a colorless pen that is supposed to be used, as you might’ve guessed, for blending different colors together.\u00a0 However, I don’t love the blender pen with this set, because Karin markers are already super juicy and actually blend really well together using water and a paintbrush, no blender pen needed.\u00a0 In my opinion, it also just doesn’t work super well.<\/p>\n

The only other major con of this pen set is the price, like I mentioned before.\u00a0 This set of 27 pens is $60, and the set of all 72 colors runs for $153.\u00a0 In my opinion, the quality is well worth it, but that doesn’t change the fact that buying a set of these is a pretty big purchase.<\/p>\n

Overall, this is more of a fangirl post as opposed to a legitimate recommendation, because I know most college students aren’t gonna be able to shell out $60 for a few pens (I got these for Christmas a few years ago).\u00a0 But if you ever do get the chance to use them, enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today we’re taking a look at what are probably my favorite pens of all time: the Karin Brushmarker Pro. These are notorious in the handlettering community for being some of the best brush pens out there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they have the price to match, but we’ll get into that later. Karin is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":20697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1961,1910,1960,1879,1870,1867,1866,1869,1881,1893,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21870,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions\/21870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}