With kind permission from Inkvent Master
@K-2 , I'm going to quote K's introduction to last year's Inkvent, as K explains it well, and begin this year's Inkvent calendar. We will have to await K's participation until January or so, as K's schedule is very crowded just now. It's actually day 21 today, but I'll start with day one and post as many days I can, albeit in a simple form, to which I may or may not add as time goes by.
Feel free to participate in any way you like, even if you don't have this year's calendar (which features purple this year).
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Inkventors - get ready to post! Much like Inktober, there really aren't "rules" to Inkvent. The only courtesy we should observe is to not post ahead of schedule or out of order so as to not spoil the surprise for those Inkventors who are dutifully opening those little doors in order, and as scheduled. I know
@AnasaziWrites got his box in the mail! who else is with us?
Of course, maybe you didn't purchase the set, but still want to ink! You can use the name of the ink as your prompt, just like in Inktober, if you like; you'll just have to wait until the day of for the reveal. But that's fine. There's no way I'm going to be able to post every day this time around. It's just a super busy time at work, and I've committed a lot of time to working with my kid's school's music boosters, and I have to travel for the holidays. Eventually we'll all get through all the inks - just like last time (even though it took through January):
https://theflourishforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7287.0@Zivio &
@Lucie Y &
@tiffany.c.a &
@Erica McPhee &
@InkyFingers - you were all such awesome Inktoberists! maybe you'll come in for Invent too!
As participants on the Forum have often noted - you can use fountain pen inks with dip pens if you doctor them a bit. I also use fountain pen inks for drawing and painting. All the drawings I posted in the Inktober 2021 and 2022 threads were done with fountain pen inks for instance. They have some wonderful properties of shading and chromatography, making them a very exciting art medium. Nick Stewart shows off their amazing range on his blog:
https://nickstewart.ink/Hence, I'm posting to the "Tools and Supplies" area, since this thread will produce a catalogue of lovely, colorful inks that may be helpful for some future project.
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My posts will be done on Strathmore Bristol Smooth 300 or 400. I did the first ink, Fortunes Gold, using a Gillott 604ef nib, but switched to a Spencerian #1, which is a little less sharp, for the rest unless noted otherwise. Seems to work better with these fountain pen inks. Also, all these inks come in 12 ml bottles, so when I mention adding gum arabic to the ink, it is added to the full bottle.
