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.
Screen printing with bleach
Recently attended a days screen printing refresher course at Medway Fine Printmakers aka INTRA. I had no idea if it was possible, but it worked… you can screen print with Domestos. Standby for limited edition […]
Fascinating outcomes from the most unlikeliest of product combinations
This is my latest literature effort on the subject. If you want to read it or download a copy please click here: http://issuu.com/nickstewart/docs/domestos_and_quink_project
5 Alphabets
5 very quick alphabets for the Horsebridge Arts centre show.
Quick Seascapes
Three very quick A6 studies of a rainy late afternoon during the Old Gaffers meet. Quink and bleach on watercolour paper. Luckily there was hardly any wind so the sea was calm and the boats were static – so […]
Causality
This piece is based on a work by the Buddhist calligrapher Tashi Mannox – http://www.tashimannox.com. The main character ‘rgyu’ in a brushed Umeh script, is a word meaning causality or primary cause. This is then […]
