Rob at Made for Ink has very kindly sent me and the United Inkdom review team samples of his two new notebook ranges. Rob is an artisan in the true meaning, producing limited print runs […]
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further it’s creative potential for use within the visual arts.
Author: Nick Stewart
I create art using fountain pen inks and bleach. My techniques epitomise the whole ethos of ‘less is more’ and demonstrate how much one can achieve using very little. It is also a medium that is very much serendipity led and the beauty of the final outcomes are often dictated by this.
Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age Fountain Pen
Often tagged as a grail pen – the Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age fountain pen could certainly be described as something long sought after that is difficult to acquire. A pen that you seek and […]
Kobe Fountain Pen Inks 1-9 swatch tests
Kobe is not only the city in which the Nagasawa-Kobe stationery shop is situated, it also the brand name for eighty delightful fountain pen inks that Nagasawa-Kobe sell. But these inks aren’t made in-house. Oh […]
The PINEIDER Metropolis
The Metropolis is the latest offering from Pineider with a barrel end that can be customised by the owner with a choice of monograms, initials or logos. Made from UltraResin, the pen is a purple […]
Birmingham Pen Company ink swatch tests
The Birmingham Pen Co. is a tiny family owned and operated manufacturer located just north of Pittsburgh. And of note, the Birmingham moniker was derived from Birmingham, UK – a manufacturing hub that specialised in, among other things, […]
Visconti Van Gogh Inks swatch tests
The relatively recent range of Visconti Van Gogh inks allegedly pay homage to the Dutch artist’s great passion for colour and are inspired by some of his more well known paintings. Each ink colour is […]
The New Calamus Fountain Pen from AraTRUM
The Calamus fountain pen is part of a three piece writing instrument set also featuring a ball point pen and a rollerball pen. This very distinctive pen set has been put together by the German […]
Diamine Hong Kong Exclusives – Kong Girls and Kong Guys
Two Diamine exclusives with great names and both are gorgeous colours that work really well together. Kong Girls is a very pretty mid purple fountain pen ink with a silver blue shimmer. It’s a shading […]
Robert Oster Signature Ink – 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
I was first introduced to Robert Oster Signature Inks by Claudia Astorquiza who helped me to find a place within the Fountain Pen Network forum to post articles about this project. And over the last […]
Fountain Pen Ink in a Decadent Age
Back in June 2015, I began an investigation into fountain pen ink without any idea of how long the journey might last nor where it may lead. And the last six years have a been […]
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