I am meant to be folding laundry...

[sciatrix]

...but instead am catching up on DW discussions and indulging in my most recent expensive obsession, which is fountain pens. I do a lot more writing by hand now that I can simultaneously go "oh it's so pretty!!!!" and marvel at my ink and paper, or carefully select the ink I wish to use at each given time,

Right now, I'm going "I WANT A STUB NIB WITH A BIG RESERVOIR AND A SHADY INK. WITH SPARKLES. YEAH." and considering making a couple of purchases. (Well, and I'm also eyeing this Noodler's Creaper which has a flexible nib that will let me vary how thick the ink is as I write depending on how hard I press, but the reviews are so variable that I can't work out whether it's worth trying.)

But yeah--I think my deal right now is that I really want to play with shading inks and play with the color variation in a lot of fountain pen inks, and also take notes for work at the same time. And I think italic nibs work really well for me in a way that other nib thicknesses don't always.

Right now, I'm spending a lot of time mooshing my nose up against the swabs at Mountain of Ink and daydreaming about the subtle color variations that I would definitely get to see and play with if I went out and bought all the inks.

I mean. Look at this!



They're so pretty. I keep wondering if I should just go ahead and get some paintbrushes, just to play with the shading of the inks on paper as a purely aesthetic pleasure.

Comments

[sylvaine]

Oh wow *______* I write exclusively with my fountain pen, but mostly because it's the only way to make my handwriting legible at all xD;; I'm terribly fond of calligraphy and always wanted to get into as a teen when I had nowhere near the funds for it, and these days I've kind of given up on my handwriting and that includes calligraphy. XD but I am still so enamoured by all the tools and by the results!

[sciatrix]

Oh, my handwriting is atrocious. I like the inks and the colors anyway, though!