Fun With Ink

[ehyde]

I must confess that instead of writing these past few days, I've been playing with pens and ink. I bought a blank swatch book and have been cataloguing my bottled ink.



Along with these I have just as many samples still to do. So, my inks are heavily weighted towards purple (by choice) and blue (by virtue of a few freebies). Looking at this, l want more greens and browns.

I also got a clear-bodied Platinum Preppy to use as a dedicated invisible ink pen (because I don't want a pen that'll dry out) and I'm modding it some to hopefully make it look a little classier. So far: removed the plastic clip, and sanded the body to create a frosted glass look.

Comments

[forestofglory]

These cards look so pretty!

[ehyde]

thanks! it's kind of fun too--watching ink dry sounds about the same as watching paint dry but it's neat to see the effects it makes as the heavier and lighter areas dry out

[momijizukamori]

Oooh, those look lovely. I'd love to see more detailed photos, I've been slowly slipping into fountain pen land (I've got a Pilot Metropolitan and a bottle of Noodler ink in the mail to me right now)

[ehyde]

Ooh, what color of ink? The slope into fountain pen land can be very slippery indeed! (also there are a lot of reasonable quality and affordable pens on aliexpress, if you haven't found them yet!)

I actually just swatched a few more colors, so I might take some new pictures if I get a chance during the day when I can use the sunlight.

[momijizukamori]

Pasternak, which is one of the dual-shading ones, except it turns out I don't have good paper for it so it's mostly just kind of a nice grey. I resisted the siren call of fountain pens for many years because I don't write much by hand, but I started journaling this year and have allowed myself to slip. I didn't think of looking on AliExpress for stuff, though! Got any favorite recs?