The desk
Pick a pen, an ink and a paper. Write. Everything on this desk behaves like the real thing: wet ink shines, then goes matt; cotton drinks, coated paper waits.
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The tools
- Pen
- Writes with the nib you chose. Slow strokes are wetter and wider; quick strokes are drier and finer.
- Water
- A drop of water on wet ink. It blooms out like watercolour.
- Blotter
- Press and lift. It takes the extra ink and leaves the page drier, with a mirrored print on the blotter.
- A day later
- Only for Gall Black. Slide it to see where iron-gall ink ends up once it has oxidised.
Things to try
- Write the same word on Rag, then on Glaze. Look at the edges.
- Burin on Glaze, pressing on every down-stroke. Watch the pools.
- Harbour Blue, a slow full stop, then tilt your phone.
- Gall Black on Rag, then slide “a day later”.
- A drop of water on a wet Moss line.
- Any ink on Washi. Then turn the sheet over.