Happy Halloween!
Today's word of the day is, "Hobgoblin!"
There was supposed to be a video of this but one of them must have been been playing a trick on me and swapped my phone to photo mode… 😱
I will record a video using this ink another day.
This is some mystery blacklight invisible ink from the Goblin Trader at the Ohio Renaissance Festival on Fabriano Black Watercolor paper and written with 3mm parallel nib.
The vendor said this was fountain pen friendly, but it destroyed an Asvine V126. It cracked the body in several places and the section broke in half at the threads. It would have looked cool glowing in that pen under the UV light. Fortunately it wasn't a very expensive pen or one that I used often. No idea what is in this ink that caused it to do that, but it has not damaged my custom resin pen thankfully. 👻
For this piece I found an H cadel that I liked on Pinterest, and did an approximation of it along with some improvised gothicized italic/textura hybrid script. I wrote this in normal light and it was... difficult...
This ink is cool but bleeds on every paper I own, but did a little better on this Fabriano paper, though the hairlines are still pretty thick, and the edges of each broad stroke expand after laying them down, which makes the spacing a bit more challenging when freehanding Cadels.
Speaking of which, I am currently doing a challenge to write a Cadel every day until I travel for Thanksgiving break. I will be posting them to Reddit r/calligraphy, and/or r/fountainpens, as well as on my Instagram page: The Luminous Scribe.
Write on! - Leonardo
Happy Halloween!
