So if you aren't sure, and don't need them to go in fountain pens also, you could just get those. The vendor I linked to, for example, has them in gold, brown, red, yellow, and other colors. JPosted by Zoe to Guides, Comic / Manga Pens, Drawing Inks Walk into any artists studio, and youre sure to find a bottle or two of drawing ink. Herbin, they do have many other colors of dip pen specific inks. The pens are used daily by artists worldwide for illustrations, fashion design, life drawings, portraits, sequential art and canvas paintings. The pigmented India inks are lightfast, acid-free and pH Neutral. My main concern is that an inadequately cleaned dip pen nib or holder might contaminate the bottles that I use for fountain pens, so I decant small amounts into vials if I want to try them for a dip pen.īut about J. Pitt Artist Pens are odorless, permanent & waterproof inks in vibrant colors that will not bleed through paper. I have some issues using them with fountain pen inks, but they can work, and again there is some variation with specific nibs and inks. And my metal dip pen nibs, although they mostly work well enough with all of my other dip pen inks, don't necessarily work equally well with each. Go a bit thinner with colored inks and black inks you want them to be more watery. You should stir white and metallic inks to the consistency of cream. Herbin inks that I have, a blue and a green, are actually meant for dip pens only, so I don't know about their fountain pen versions. To fix that, simply stir some water into the ink I usually start with 1/4 teaspoon and keep adding until the ink has a smoother consistency. 0:00 / 15:02 USING INDIA INK & DIP PENS for the FIRST TIME Inktober Plans and Goals Inktober Day 01 DrawingWiffWaffles 2. For example, I have a glass dip pen that doesn't seem to like my Speedball black or purple inks, but works well with J. I've found dip pens to sometimes be a little finicky about inks for reasons that aren't always clear. Go ahead and use Herbin and try out some R&K.you'll be fine.
I don't use inks from those brands as a rule anyway, so I guess that's why I haven't had a problem.
I guess calligraphy ink and India ink works BETTER for dip pens, but I've never encountered a problem using my FP inks.Įdit again: Apparently, the really saturated "sticky" inks (like Noodlers and Private Reserve) don't work. But there's no reason why FP ink won't work for dip pens.Įdit: Just did a search and apparently it IS an issue, which is news to me. For what it's worth, all I've heard is that India ink is not safe for fountain pens because it will quickly gunk up the works.that's why ink for fountain pens was invented. Heck, even the Rohrer & Klingner bottles say "For fountain pens, steel-nibbed pens, dip pens, and individual writing utensils for calligraphy." And those little notches on Herbin bottles? They're for your dip pen to rest (and the Herbin glass dip pen). Where did you read that? All I have are FP inks and I use them with dip pens all the time, including Herbin Vert Empire.
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