For each ink I do following tests:
- Swatch on Rhodia Dot Pad 80g/m2
- Swatch on Clairefontaine Mix Media 250g/m2
- Entry in MD Paper Journal A5 Grid Block notebook with Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear” from Diune by Frank Herbert
- Stamp with shima bird (by Beverly)
- Short entry in Tomoe River 52g/m2
- Entry in my pen register (Semicolon notebook)
- Small one-liner in the pen register notebook
- 1cm2 square on Rhodia 80g/m2, that I have glued in my first pen register
- and finally I write my morining page
On this page I digitalize first four.
As fountain pen inks behave differently depending on density and paper (and a moon phase :)), I tried to show them via different ways and nib kinds.
For each “big” swatch I use:
- brush – to paint some part of the paper, trying to get various amount of ink in different places
- glass pen – I use basic Koh-I-Noor one
- dip pens with Zebra G, Nikko G and 2mm redis nibs
- and actual pen that I use for that ink (or Iro-utsushi M dip pen when swatching small samples)
On Rhodia it looks like following:
And on Clariefontaine:
“Title” image of ink is cut out of the Rhodia swatch:
