Sheening inks have had centre stage for some while now and just as I thought that might change, along come these two characters. And I have to say, they are just that. Great names, Maureen […]
FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further its creative potential for use within the visual arts.
The Inktober 2018 Art Challenge – Review
This is my second year of Inktober and it certainly keeps you on your toes. One artwork a day and that’s on top of the day job! The key thing for success I think is […]
Fountain Pen Ink Workshop. Saturday 10th November. Book Now!
3 spaces left. Book Now! And explore this fascinating medium! All materials and refreshments included. Swatch Painting. Modern Calligraphy. Shimmer Inks. Ink and bleach. Ink Art. http://www.nickstewart.ink/events
A NEW future for fountain pen inks
For the last 3 years I have been deconstructing fountain inks in the name of creative investigation to see if it’s possible to reimagine them as something other than just a handwriting agent for fountain […]
An Interview with The Art Supply Posse
This is an interview about the Fountain Pen Inks and Bleach project, and other things, that I gave to The Art Supply Posse a couple of months back. Many thanks to Kim for posing the […]
Shimmertastic! New Diamine Shimmer Inks for 2018
It’s that time of year again and Diamine are releasing their latest additions to the Shimmer Inks range on 1st October 2018. Eight new colours featuring three silvers: Starlit Sea, Peacock Flare and Neon Lime […]
Multi-purpose Fountain Pen Inks
It’s taken a while, but at long last, the mission has been accomplished. Multi-purpose fountain pen inks. Inks that one can write with and inks that one can use for painting and illustration. The perfect […]
Randall Ink Review from The Clumsy Penman
Nick Stewart is a creative designer, artist, calligrapher and educator from historic Rochester in England. In the word of fountain pens, especially inks, he is well known for his serious ink tests, exceptional chromatography swatches […]
A Quink and Bleach Portrait of Todd Terje
A demo video showing how I created a recent portrait of Todd Terje using Parker Quink and bleach. The chromatography within the ink gives a gorgeous celestial background on which to work. As the ink […]
A story with no words
Just now and again it’s fun to do something just a little bit ‘off the wall’. I recently got hold of some concertina sketch books and decided to create a story using Quink and bleach… only […]
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