Tag: Iron gall ink
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The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*
*of the ones I have and can afford! Any comments saying ‘oh you didn’t try this ink’ and such pedantry will require an automatic forfeit of sending me that bottle of ink, for free. 😛 Not done a equipment review for quite a while – over the last few years I’ve been trying out carbon…
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Ink Lightfastness Tests
Weird to be presenting lightfast tests in the darkest time of the year but since last summer I have been testing the various inks I use for lightfastness, and here are the results. Lightfastness is the way pigments and dyes react to UV light – if they aren’t lightfast they fade or shift in colour…
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5PM Challenge 53-69
I’ve not posted an update of the 5PM Challenge since January (all of them get posted on Instagram) – when the world was very different. Firstly there was a lot of abstracts – especially in ink and inktense blocks – a lot of abstract landscapes, I tend to do that a lot – start as…
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Life Drawing #72 – Asim
Cane but fully abled: this session was all about ink and mostly dip pens and the model brought a cane to pose with. It was a weird sort of coincidence as I’d been using a walking cane the day before because I’d hurt my back (in fact I wasn’t sure if I’d make the session).…
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Life Drawing #71 – Daisy
Daisy is one of my favourite models, not only is she a great person to talk to, but also her poses are full of character and stretch us as artists. This life session was the best session in recent weeks because we had a model who felt as excited to be there as we were…
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Portraits At The Pub 12: Jules
A good session at Portraits At The Pub with Jules furthering my experiments with Diamine Registrar’s Ink, drawing with fountain pens and flex nibs in my dip pen. In fact this was the first outing of my ‘fude’ fountain pen, with a bent nib which you can see in the drawing above right. More dip-pen…
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