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Hey there!

First off, I am very new to the format of the site. So please excuse any amateur mistakes regarding wrong posting locations at first, as I am rather infamous for doing this. (I found this place through research on pen-related topics often bringing me to forums on here.)

But aside from that, it's nice to meet all of you!

I've always been fascinated with the medium of ink. It's really smooth, consistent, and has some sort of permanence to me. That was, until I discovered the different techniques one may use with it, not to mention the different types of ink.
Regardless, I am a very experimental person. I've tried many different types of utilizing ink and manipulating it to fit the purposes I was after...and had some nice surprises along the way.

I am one who uses pens for artwork, and is starting to gain interest in calligraphy. Any advice concerning the two, or other creative approaches with ink are always welcome for me-I always like to talk about topics that fall in that category, anyhow.

I've been looking for a place to casually discuss one of my side-obsessions (that slowly has started to eat into my everyday life) that not many around me have an interest in. It's great to find a group of people who have a similar appeal to this medium.

Disclaimer: I am nowhere near an expert on this topic, as some others on this site might be.

At any rate, apologies for the probably unnecessarily long intro. In actuality, I'm just a nerd that really likes to talk about anything, ink-related or naught. Although I'm a bit timid when being a newcomer.

Any other fellow ink-artists here?

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Welcome to FPN! I'm no artist, but you'll find plenty here.

 

Thank you!

 

I'd think so; although I feel some artists might be avoiding fountain and dips pens more recently due to the popularity of fineliners, but at the same time fountain pens have formed a "cult" following in the opinion of some.

 

Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell.

 

Thanks for the very warm welcome. I feel very at home.

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Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

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Hello and welcome from Baton Rouge, Louisiana...Enjoy your time here

 

 

Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

 

Greetings and warm welcome to FPN.

 

Thanks to all for the warm welcome!

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Welcome !

 

You are supposed to tell us about yourself in an introduction. Yours is not especially long.

You write an easy-reading narrative.

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Welcome aboard, from Charleston, SC. I've seen quite a bit of artistic work on display by reading through the Ink Reviews-that might be a place to connect with a few of the more artistically talented members.

Mike

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Welcome !

 

You are supposed to tell us about yourself in an introduction. Yours is not especially long.

You write an easy-reading narrative.

 

 

Thank you!

 

I could have added more, but I don't particularly enjoy writing about myself.

I try to not overcomplicate my writing when simply conversing.

 

 

Greetings and a warm welcome !

 

 

:W2FPN:

 

Thank you!

 

 

Welcome aboard, from Charleston, SC. I've seen quite a bit of artistic work on display by reading through the Ink Reviews-that might be a place to connect with a few of the more artistically talented members.

Mike

 

 

Thanks for the warm welcome, as well as the advice.

 

 

Oh, and I think it might be worth mentioning that I know almost NOTHING about fountain pens. I started using them a long time ago, gave them up for dip pens, and now have returned to fountain pen territory out of interest and have been immersed ever since.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is-

 

I've only used a couple of fountain pens in my life and really am not familiar with them all as a whole.

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Greetings and welcome!



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...The history, culture and sophistication; the rich, aesthetic beauty; the indulgent, ritualistic sensations of unscrewing the cap and filling from a bottle of ink; the ambient scratch of the ink-stained nib on fine paper; A noble instrument, descendant from a line of ever-refined tools, and the luster of writing,
with a charge from over several millennia of continuing the art of recording man's life.

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Welcome to our warm nook of the internet, where you can share this beautiful hobby with good and friendly people. Or as we say in low Saxon: Mooi a'j dr bint! (Good you're here.)

Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde.

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I, too, don't really know much about FP's. This forum can obviously change that. I also recommend browsing YouTube for a pretty quick immersion into the topic. Enjoy and Welcome!

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