Starry Ink are an ink lab working out of Shanghai, China. Established in 2016 they currently have three collections of ink: Mood Tail, Cold Brew and Sodapop. In 2004 they won a Good Design Award […]
Experimenting with fountain pen ink to further its creative potential for use within the visual arts.
Tag: Sheening Ink
Project Review and My top 12 inks of 2024
A Happy New Year to you and welcome to my Top 12 fountain pen inks of 2024, plus a summary of my fountain pen ink art project – reimagining fountain pen inks for creative purposes […]
A Brief Review of the Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2024
Huge thanks to Diamine for producing yet another wonderful Inkvent Calendar (The Black Edition). Personally, I think it’s been the best yet, and a real joy to engage with. Plus it’s been great to see […]
Diamine Inkvent Calendars – the perfect portal to a magical world of fountain pen ink
It’s strange to think that this year’s black edition Inkvent Calendar will be the fifth one that Diamine has released since 2019. And with 25 unique inks in each one, that’s 125 fountain pen inks […]
Two more Diamine Exclusives for Art from the Heart
Introducing Arthur Job and Ooh Betty’s – two more Diamine exclusives produced for online UK stationers Art from the Heart which have just been released. The bottom alphabet is a blend of the 2 inks […]
Call of the Cthulhu – A Wearingeul Exclusive for Goldspot Pens
Tom from Goldspot Pens has sent me a bottle of their recent exclusive ink from Wearingeul – Call of the Cthulhu. Based in South Korea, Wearingeul produce some seriously beautiful, sheening, shimmer and standard fountain […]
Recent Wearingeul ink swatch tests
Based in South Korea, Wearingeul are a gift and stationery supplier with a seriously impressive fountain pen ink collection which they continue to expand upon with some stunning, sheening, shimmer and standard fountain pen inks […]
Project Review and My top 12 inks of 2023
Welcome to the 2023 summary of my fountain pen ink art project – reimagining fountain pen inks for creative purposes other than for just handwriting – which began in 2015 with no real goals or […]
The Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2023
Many thanks to Diamine for producing yet another fun Inkvent Calendar (The Purple Edition). As always, it’s been a joy to play with this most magical of mediums and it’s been great to see so […]
Octopus Fluids Sheening Inks Review
Just when you thought sheening inks had possibly submitted to shimmer and chameleon inks, Octopus Fluids have released a lovely edition of six sheening colours and very kindly sent me some to play with. Octopus […]
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