A few sample pieces for Phil Davies at Diamine showing the diversity of his shimmer inks – and you can’t do this with a gel pen! In fact I did this with a Noodler’s Ahab […]
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further its creative potential for use within the visual arts.
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Robert Oster Signature Ink – Viola
What a gorgeous fountain pen ink. A great range of tone and ideal for winter scenes with a hint of cyan adding that icy chill. And all from one ink! I used a da Vinci […]
Visconti Inks Test
Visconti is an Italian company manufacturer of fine fountain pens, ballpoint pens, rollerball pens and other luxury products – timepieces and accessories. The company was founded in 1988 in Florence by Dante Del Vecchio and Luigi Poli, collectors of fountain pens for many years. These appear to […]
Quink and Bleach – Homage to Leunig
I have been a fan of Michael Leunig for many years. Just love his style. I was looking at one of his books the other evening and just started doodling. I didn’t want to just […]
Diamine Shimmer Inks 2016 – Get it on!
Following on from last years runaway success and Christmas 2016 approaching fast, Diamine are currently releasing a new range of Shimmer Inks which Christine Joynson very kindly sent me a batch to test. Now whether […]
KWZ inks test 02
And here they are! The long awaited KWZ inks test Part Two. I have an apology to make in advance. Some of the sample vials leaked in transit obliterating the labels. Agnieska very kindly emailed […]
Rain over Ramsgate – fountain pen ink art
This is based on an image I took over the weekend. I was sailing from Upnor to Ramsgate when 2 miles from Ramsgate the sky turned Diamine Eclipse and sea a Diamine Twilight. What was visually […]
Stipula Inks Test
I don’t know a lot about this brand apart from that it’s an Italian fountain pen manufacturer and established sometime in the 1970’s. From what I can gather the range of fountain pen inks is […]
Robert Oster Test Art
Taking just 5 of the Robert Oster colours: Khaki, Chocolate, Blue Night, Deep Sea and Aussy Sky. The sky and sea were achieved using? Yup pretty obvious. So what about the wood colours and darker tones? Khaki and […]
Robert Oster Signature Inks test
Just look at these beauties! Sample inks very kindly sent to me by Claudia! Robert Oster Signature Inks. And here we go – Robert Oster Signature Inks. Well to start with I had never heard of […]
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