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 […]
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further its creative potential for use within the visual arts.
Tag: ink geeks
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pebble Stationery co’s Artisan cosmo light x liberty london wiltshire a5 notebook
Wow! And what a beautiful A5 notebook it is too. Hand bound in a stunning Liberty London fabric called Wiltshire, the 160 sewn pages inside are made up of Cosmo Air Light – a fairly […]
Five new ink exclusives from cult pens – three diamines and Two Robert oster’s
Many congratulations to Cult Pens on their 16th anniversary and for celebrating, in part, by not only releasing a beautiful 16 x 12ml bottle fountain pen gift set but five new ink exclusives too! Three […]
Cult pens – Sweet Sixteen, beautiful and mine! all mine, mine, MINE!
Many congratulations to Cult Pens on their 16th anniversary and for celebrating, in part, by releasing a beautiful 16 x 12ml bottle fountain pen gift set comprising of 13 classic Diamine colours and 3 new […]
Troublemaker shading, Sheen and shimmer swatch tests
Troublemaker Inks are a small artisan ink studio based in the Philippines. Their current range consists of 27 fountain pen inks spanning four categories of ink: Standard, Shading, Shimmer and Sheen. This is my second post, […]
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