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I have been trying to get a colour wheel completed for a while - just to demonstrate that for the ultimate art journal palette you don't need every colour of ink available - you can travel the world with a limited palette for both your writing and illustration purposes. I also wanted to show how compliant and easy to use fountain pen inks are for creative purposes - other than handwriting.

 

I took 3 Diamine colours: Special Yellow, Scarlet and Turquoise and carefully worked my way around the wheel. What I wanted to demonstrate is how similar fountain pen inks are to watercolour inks in terms of colour mixing - while still retaining their chromatic, shading and sheening qualities. ALL of these colours are from mixing 2 colours together! And if I wanted to create ochre variants, all I have to do is carefully mix the 3 colours together! You don't use much ink. Literally a drop at a time. The colours are still vibrant with no cloudy sediment and we still have that wonderful and unique reaction with bleach. I haven't shown it here, but adding various amounts of black ink will also add to the tonal values and ochre creation. Give it a try?

 

If you'd like to know more about this and what I'm doing with fountain pen inks, please take a look at the Mission Statement.

Artwork and test on Bockingford 200lb watercolour paper using a watercolour brush and dip pen with titanium zebra G flex nib.

 

Inks kindly donated by Diamine.

 

Just for the record – I do this for myself, I receive no remuneration what-so-ever and I tell it exactly how I see it.

PS - I will shortly be swatch testing the complete range of Krishna inks! Just saying!

 

Check my project site. Link from my profile area.

To view the full article and images please visit my blog: **** WWW.NICKSTEWART.INK ****

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npweston NOS (New Old Stock)

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That's really lovely and fascinating you can do all that with just three inks. Beautiful work.

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Nice work.

Reminds me a bit of my first painting project in college -- we had to make little partial boxes and put an egg in it and paint the still life -- and only use 2 colors of oil paint (something like Prussian Blue and I think maybe Burnt Sienna -- but don't quote me on that because it's been [mumble mumble] years....

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Thank you for the Diamine demonstration! I am very excied to see your swabs of the KRISHNA lineup; they are a favored ink of mine & I have very much enjoyed those I have purchased, used & shared. I think they are exciting & this will be a nice opportunity to see your examination of them.

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Wow.

Beautiful color wheel. Especially off of 3 colors.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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:notworthy1: :thumbup:

San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

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Beautiful!

 

Seems like Special Yellow is especially bleach resistant. :huh: (From what I can remember, the white borders are done with bleach, right?)

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Good work!

 

I'll bet that there's more than just me, wishing we had that artistic 'flair'. :)

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