I was recently sent a bottle of Lennon Tool Bar Oyster black fountain pen ink to have a fiddle with by Stationery Studio who is based in Hong Kong. Lennon Tool Bar Oyster fountain pen […]
FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further its creative potential for use within the visual arts.
31 Fountain pen inks in 31 days! INKTOBER 2021
And that’s another Inktober done and dusted. This year I concentrated on using one ink (with bleach) for each day and tried – within reason – to stick to the official prompt while doing my […]
Cult Pens exclusive VINTA Inks swatch tests
Welcome to the Cult Pens Vinta exclusives. Four brand new inks made for the UK’s largest online stationer. Of interest, Vinta usually name their ink according to an event in Philippine history, but these exclusive […]
Made for Ink Exorcise and Chalk Stripe notebook review
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 […]
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 […]
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