Two pens, two inks and two fabulous journal links.
From the archives…
You have probably seen Nick Stewart’s ink and bleach swatches. If you like them, his tutorials might give you just the right amount of encouragement and technique to venture into this intriguing use of fountain pen ink. Both successes and failures could make unique greeting cards. No sense letting an ink splotch go to waste…
From LuxuryBrandsUSA.com
A group of links that have nothing to do with one another, but might offer a little something for everyone…
A few on-topic links…
From the archives:
Gobsmacked by the first link. Mother Nature is a very confused lady…
Japanese Flex Nibs
From left to right, Platinum #3776 Century Fine Flex (FF), Pilot Custom 742 Falcon (FA), and the Namiki Falcon Soft Fine (SF). None of the nibs are damaged but they do have little touches of ink here and there.
The best thing about yesterday was discovering how well Platinum Carbon Ink performs on Moleskine paper and in a cahier at that. The Plaisir is perfectly tuned for the ink so using this trio is a real pleasure.
The second best thing was UPS delivering a package by bicycle. That was a first in my neighborhood and quite a sight. The “chocolate man” as my daughter used to call him, rode away too fast for a photo, but the event was good for a chuckle in an otherwise mirthless day.
A chance meeting of a Moleskine notebook, a Pilot MR Metropolitan medium nib, and Sailor Tokiwa-matsu ink revealed a very acceptable partnership. Almost no feathering and so little bleed-through as to make the backs of pages useful makes this a winning combination. I am not a huge Moleskine fan, but in this case, paint me happily surprised.
Note that the left hand page was not written with Tokiwa-matsu. It produced far less ghosting and bleed-through than pictured.
Moleskine, Pilot Metropolitan and Sailor Tokiwa-matsu at Amazon.
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