Diamine Fountain Pen Ink Colour Wheel

[Jared]

Lovely. Thank you for sharing with us.

[DrDebG]

This is excellent! You put the entire color wheel together using just those 3 inks. It just proves how versatile FP inks are.

[donmcnel]

Amazing job.

[Misfit]

Wowie! That took some time, and looks great. Very impressive.

[fjoly79]

 

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.

 

what you did is simply amazing! I admire your patience and your artistic sense, BRAVO, BRAVO!

[NickiStew]

Thank you ALL for your kind words. Fountain pen inks are so much more than other mediums - they each have their own behaviours and what a diverse bunch of personalties they are. We must all ensure that technology does not see their demise - keep writing, keep drawing and keep painting!

[amberleadavis]

Nicki, if you add the instructions here, I'll add this to the CYMK links.

[PS104]

I am awestruck

Thank you

[johnboz]

Beautiful! Do you have an Instagram page we can follow? I'd love to see more of your work on a regular basis.

[NickiStew]

Beautiful! Do you have an Instagram page we can follow? I'd love to see more of your work on a regular basis.

 

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