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I unfortunately haven’t had time to sketch for the past week , other tasks seem to have come up and need doing suddenly.
I set this landscape up for painting last night by won’t get anything done until tomorrow possibly, it’s a new format for me based on the size of a painting that Alan kindly sent me, his is of a Hastings trawler it’s and excellent format and size for boats , will see how it looks as a landscape.
atermans Intense black fountain pen ink 
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Martin, what Fude pens did you use?. I use automatic filling pens (and the filling devices would clog using any really permanent ink) not dip pens. The ones I use you can only really use with fountain pen ink and they are definately not permanent, I've just tried to wash water over one of mine done months ago and the Ink ran and bled through the paper, so no good for overlaying with watercolour. I should think dip pens would be OK using more peranent inks providing you kept them clean. The times I've used colour on these drawings , I've drawn first with pencil then added watercolour and thenFude pen.
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Carbon black ink is permanent, and is water resistant: resistant doesn't mean it won't run at all, and I like to add a little water to drawings with this ink; it can be a bit sticky inside the pen, but can be washed out successfully with water - especially lukewarm water - and dried with a kitchen towel.
If you want an ink that will never yield to water when dry, so far as I know it has to be Indian ink, and you can't use that in anything other than a dip pen, as George says. I was hoping to find a sepia or bistre ink I could use in a fude pen: they certainly exist, but - they're not water resistant, so far as I've discovered so far. There are good waterproof sepia and other coloured inks, but they're for dip pens only - they'll destroy any kind of fountain pen, so far as I know.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has found a coloured ink that is waterproof and can be used in fountain pens - I want one!
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I’ll have to step in here and make a correction! Not widely known about, but there IS a pen (fountain pen similarity), that can be used with ANY ink, including Indian ink.
I’ve bought two of them a few years ago, (slightly different with a range of drawing nibs), I’ve highlighted them in one of my articles in TA many months back.
So, what are they? The Ackerman fountain pen, and on my recommendation, quite a few of you bought one, including as I recall Fiona and Lew (where is he by the way!).
Check out their website, they’re only available from the States, so postage does bump up the price… a ballpark figure is around £50 inc postage. They’re absolutely brilliant, they take apart easily for cleaning, a few seconds in fact, you can’t go wrong…
I’ve tried every type of ink and they just don’t clog or block up… believe me, it’s true! Including the dreaded Indian ink as I said earlier!
