441
« on: April 08, 2014, 05:42:06 PM »
I use Speedball acrylic ink, because I like the green color, and it cleans up easy with water.
BUT, like acrylic house paint, it dries fast, that starts to mess up the ink flow. So as others have said, I have to clean the pen of the dried ink. I keep a heavy glass ink well with water that I dip the pen/nib into, then wipe with a tissue (toilet paper or Klenex), then the pen is back to writing well again. The HEAVY glass ink well is specifically so I won't accidentally knock it over, like I did to a sample vial of ink...ARGH.
At the end of my writing session, I dip into the inkwell and wipe the ink off the pen, and repeat until I can't get any more ink off the pen. Then I go into the bathroom where the exhaust fan is running, and wipe the pen with a tissue moistened with rubbing alcohol. This removes ink that the water did not remove, and the alcohol displaces any water on the nib (so it hopefully won't rust).
I have yet to use a different ink, so I don't know if this process will have to change for the other ink.
If the other ink needs a solvent to clean, then it will have to change.