Tag: Klingner
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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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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Back to Canbury
I hinted at the coloured ink pieces and the restricted colour range either here or on my Instagram but the ‘Canbury Shadows And Legs,’ piece below and above is the start of all that, using Parallel Pens and Rohrer & Klingner Sketchink. Unfortunately they have quite a restricted colour range, hence the blacks, blues and…
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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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Life Drawing #70 – Gabriella (Megan)
This session was all about ink. Several fountain pen ink varieties from iron gall ink aka Diamine Registrar’s blue/black ink, Rorher & Klingner’s Sketchink ‘Lotte’ Black ink and my regular Indian inks but with new flex nibs (Zebra G and Nikko G) for my dip pen. The idea was to use them in my JinHao…
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