fountain pen ink swatch #14: l'artisan pastellier encre classique olive

[cimorene]

L’Artisan Pastellier’s “Encre Classique” fountain pen ink in the color “Olive”. On Clairefontaine paper, applied with Speedball C-0 and C-4 italic and B-3 dip pen nibs, a Kaweco Brass Sport fountain pen with EF nib, and a paintbrush (and water).


This is maybe my favorite overall ink; it’s such a sweet, comforting, mossy, foresty green color, gentle and restful for the eyes. This ink produces really interesting shading and flows rather like water, or watercolor paint, which is what it also looks like, to me, when it dries. My main issue with it is that it isn’t what I would describe as an olive green; it has too much blue in it for that, though of course, it is quite gray.

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