Tom from Goldspot Pens has sent me a bottle of their recent exclusive ink from Wearingeul – Call of the Cthulhu. Based in South Korea, Wearingeul produce some seriously beautiful, sheening, shimmer and standard fountain pen inks along with high quality swatch cards and papers all of which are tastefully packaged to a very high standard.
I have swatched many Wearingeul inks and they’re all fabulous. If you’d like to see one of many reviews click here. And if you want see more, use the search function on this site to do so. The qualities and nuances within each individual Wearingeul ink are sublime and I don’t think for a moment I am the only ink geek of this opinion. All credit to Goldspot for commissioning this.
Call of the Cthulhu really is a beautiful teal colour with a deep red metallic sheen. Named after the book by H P Lovecraft, this also slots nicely into the extensive Wearingeul writers ink series. I have swatched this ink with water onto watercolour paper to leach out the amazing chromatography revealing a very good tonal range from deep dark green to acid green, cyan and turquoise.
I have also created some abstract calligraphy on standard cartridge paper (left) and Tomoe River paper (right). Using ink straight from the bottle and writing with an automatic pen, that metallic red sheen is most definitely evident.
Tom also asked if I could use the ink to create an image of the Cthulhu. The creature is described as: “A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” See opening image for my take on it.
You can’t go wrong with saturated teal inks. They are never out of favour. The last one I was involved with was Aurora Borealis which was six years ago. If you want to be reminded of the choices that were created by Diamine click here.
Many thanks to Tom for sending me the sample. Here’s a link to Goldspot Pens if you’d like to know more – click here.
And HEY! If you’re interested to know more about how to use fountain pen inks in more creative ways – whether it’s simply to observe their chromatic behaviours, or, to recreate one of my swatch cards, or, to learn how to use them in watercolour painting, illustration and calligraphy, why not check out my online course?
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