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Morbus Curiositas
October 14th, 2014, 12:16 AM
Dear FP Geeks

... And now for something completely different :)



Today there are not only adult films.... There are also adult coulour plates :)

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/vogels_zps9b5c3ea4.jpg

I wanted to use as many of my inks as possible. I did not use the cartridges though.

But why a Colour Plate experiment.... I am a grown up.... er sort of... :baby:

Well... the reason I did so you can see in the following picture

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/spasticvangogh_zps3438c0fb.jpg

Well... You see...

I am a bit of a spastic-fantastic Luny-Remabrandt :crazy_pilot:

.... Wouldn't You agree???



Back to business now.... My Coloured Mandala

I used a Mandala as it has many "squares" to fill in

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/colouredmandal_zps6984fea7.jpg

Technique

For the bigger surfaces I used a swab
For the finer work I used a dipped in Fountain pen (like the Yellow in the centre)

The De Atramentis wine ink Merlot (centre) I used a filled Fountain Pen
for

The colours look different when using a Fountain Pen (dipped or filled) they look a bit darker. Although one could always drench the swab more often.

I love all these colours... the Pelikans and the Herbins very well

Notice The Familiarity between Susemai TS Red in the outer circle and the De Atramentis Document Red in the outmost red triangles. The DA is Permanent and Bombproof.

Centre Star is an own mix of De Atramentis Document Inks wiht thinning agent. Very nice thing to do.... Mixing permanent colours.... As a Dutchman I love the Orange

Susemai are fine deeply saturated inks.... they stain a bit though. I spilled some of them on the outer cell of a cheap FP..... the white parts of the FP are a bit pinkish now. (from the Susemai outer triangles in the inner circle)... Nice ink though

Too conclude

Making colour plates is a nice thing to do. Also is ink mixing (look at the DA permanent Orange)

Look at this.... Van Gogh was not the only one being crazy:)

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/VanGoghFPN_zps6830698e.jpg

I will do some more of this in the future. I will probably use both a swab and a Dip Pen.... The Dip pen is nice for Using Van Gogh's pointilism technique as showed in the link down here

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/273578-susemai-van-gogh-colour-plate-experimenent/

If you like to try some yourself simply download the pictures down here...

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/emptymandala_zps878cba88.gif]

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/Mandala%20and%20Van%20gogh/VanGoghflowers_zpsefd3cea5.jpg




Enjoy yourself :)

Regards Peter

EclecticCollector
November 10th, 2014, 07:44 AM
Looks like you had fun! We should all let the child inside out to play now and then. :)

inlovewithjournals
November 10th, 2014, 10:43 AM
I just bought a Mandala colouring book on Amazon. Hours of fun. :)

jacksterp
November 17th, 2014, 07:28 PM
I must say this is one of the more unique posts I've seen on this site.

Very nice.

akapulko2020
January 27th, 2015, 11:53 AM
Wow,what an awesomely unique idea! I love coloring( its proven to be therapeutic and relaxing!) ,somehow didn't think if combining it with my newly rediscovered love for fountain pens... :-)

amk
January 27th, 2015, 02:09 PM
Awesome!

I got a mandala colouring in book at a car boot sale last year, and I just finished the first page in crayon, but it'll be ink for the next one now I see how good it looks.

Frantik
February 20th, 2015, 10:25 AM
I thought I would give these drawings a chance to check the inks I have.here's the result

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/20/881bad7d2200f3bf95504d2561a75531.jpg