Itzamna - L'artisan Pastellier

April 29, 2014

Hi, I'd like to present you another review that I've made for polish fountain pen forum - that's why the text is not written in english. I'd love to prepare new scans (in english this time) but I don't have time. Anyway, I hope at least some of you will find it useful even tough you won't - probably - understand the text as polish is not the most popular language to learn

We've (we = www.piorawieczneforum.pl users) made two group buys of L'Artisan Pastellier inks. I had a chance to try almost all inks produced by them. I like some of them, I dislike many of them.

Itzamna is one of my favourite ones (in good company with Inti, Grenat and Vert Moyen). I enjoy names of L'Artisan Pastellier inks. Itzamna sounds really good. If you search just a little bit you'll get to know that Itzamna was an upper god in Maya mitology.

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Trace left on parchment paper:

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My software believes Itzamna to be something like this:

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INFORMATIONS

Producer: L'Artisan Pastellier

Color: Itzamna

Saturation: rather strong

Flow: very good in Pilot 78G with B nib, Franklin - Christoph M 14 EF nib, Graf von Faber-Castell with F nib, Waterman Expert with F nib.

Shading: nice

Feathering: yes it feathers on Mondi paper. On the other hand the nib used to write the review was scratchy. I use this ink often and there's no issues in good nibs.

Dry time: OK

Do I like it: Yes, I love it.

1. Text written with Duke fountain pen (M nib) on Mondi paper:

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2. Text written in Oxford notebook

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3. Text written in PIGNA notebook

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