Flourish Friends -- I am aware that for some people Advent started on Sunday, 27 November this year (2022), but lots of other people start it on 1 December, so it's nice to wait for them.
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.
Procedurally:
For the purposes of consistency, all of my test swatches are done on Col-O-Ring paper. The ink is applied onto wetted paper to test for shading and chromatography. A line of bleach is applied with a Nikko G nib on an area of high saturation. The italic "Diamine" is drawn with a #5 Mitchell, the blackletter "Inkvent" is drawn with a #3 or #2 Mitchell, the name of the ink itself is written in cursive with a medium flex Gillott 404 nib in an oblique holder. I do not add any gum arabic for testing purposes, to get a sense of the consistency of the ink and its suitability for different uses. So sometimes it blobs a little, which tells me how I'll need to adjust later on. I've also described what I'm seeing in words, because lighting and monitors produce different appearances, and for accessibility purposes, because some readers may be unable to distinguish between certain colors.
Drawings are done with the ink of the day (name of the ink used as prompt for the drawing), water, and sometimes bleach, with various water color brushes, ruling pens, and dip nibs. Unless otherwise noted, they are all done in a 8x8-inch spiral bound Global Art Hand Book Field Watercolor Journal - with textured, cold press, 300gsm paper.
Diamine marks each ink with the designations: "standard" (shading, but no shimmer, no sheen), "shimmer" (containing metallic particulates), "sheen" (caused by a residue that is not absorbed into the paper, making some portions reflect a different, often shiny, color), and new this year, "chameleon" (extra/holo shimmer), and "scent" (perfumed!). Sometimes with a combination of shimmer and sheen.
* Hey, Diamine - if you're reading this and maybe like my work with your ink, contact me! I work on commission!
See you tomorrow at the kick-off!
--yours truly, K