Lexington Grey: A fountain pen ink review and demo for artists.

In this video I talk about one of my favorite inks for drawing, Lexington Grey.

This is a very pretty grey ink with a lot of "shading," meaning that its transparency gives it tremendous variety of value. In other words, it can look light grey if applied thinly and quickly, and almost black if applied heavily. This gives the artist an addition, highly useful factor in controlling value. I find that working with "shading" ink is easier because of this.

Furthermore, this ink is not only water resistant, but "bulletproof" in that it reacts to the cellulose in the paper, allowing you to apply washes to it almost immediately.

In this the demo I'm using a TWSBI 580 Nickel Grey Pen with a #5 Ultra-flex nib from Fountain Pen Revolution. For some reason, the feed in this pen keeps up beautifully, even though it's not design for the heavy ink demands of a flex nib. Here's video where I talk about this pen, and flex-pens in general:    • Flexible Fountain Pens  

I'm also using A Pentel water brush to do my washes