By employing water based techniques, one can achieve a convincing watercolour style painting by simply letting the inks do what they do. The demonstration below, has been created using one ink, Diamine Earl Grey. At first […]

By employing water based techniques, one can achieve a convincing watercolour style painting by simply letting the inks do what they do. The demonstration below, has been created using one ink, Diamine Earl Grey. At first […]
On Saturday 28th September I ran a workshop on behalf of the Huguenot Museum in Rochester delivering top tips for creatives wishing to partake in the 2019 Inktober challenge. Ten students enrolled for the three […]
And yet another Diamine sheen exclusive with a topical name… Bloody Brexit. Whatever your political opinions may be, this is another heavy sheener for Seitz Kreuznach and their expanding collection of ‘Bloody’ inks! A deep […]
Earlier in 2019 Fountain Pens UK decided that it would be fun to try and create the ultimate purple fountain pen ink. With the help of Diamine, ten purple ink samples were supplied for the […]
Cult Pens have 2 new extreme sheening inks to add to their collection – Christine and Philip. Appropriately named after the two leading lights at Diamine who have created them. Opening image: Christine and Philip blended […]
Two more Diamine sheen exclusives but this time for the Far East. First up is the Hong Kong sheening exclusive Lion Rock. A heavy brown that sheens metallic green. The lovely thing about this particular […]
Another Diamine sheen exclusive but this time it’s for Seitz Kreuznach. And the name is totally appropriate – Bloody Absinth! Nice… A deep rich green serious sheening ink, Bloody Absinth (no ‘e’) bleeds out greens […]
Seitz Kreuznach are the second to last mass batch of ink samples that I have left in the studio to swatch test. There are apparently 26 ink colours available of which I have 22. They […]