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Results are in on the lightfastness tests I did of the full line of De Atramentis Document Inks! You can see the results of the testing of t...

Faber Castell Polychromos Pastels have been a go-to pastel for artists because they are individually rated for lightfastness, and prov...

In January, 2015, I made swatches of the 48 colors in the Charvin Water Soluble Pastel Painting Sticks set, and cut the strips down the c...

Last year, I began some lightfastness testing on the full line of Noodler's Eternal Inks, as well as pigmented and iron gall inks by oth...

Many thanks to all of you for waiting so patiently for these preliminary results! For those who don't know what I'm talking about , ...

This Wednesday, February 15, I will be a guest on Write Time at 9! This is an almost-weekly webcast by the Goulet Pen Company. We will be re...

Brian Goulet of the Goulet Pen Company contacted me regarding some lightfastness testing I've been doing on a number of inks. So far I&...

These are the last sheets of my lightfastness tests for now. I'll be putting these back into the window to see how they fare over the n...

As promised, here are the results of my lightfastness testing to date of the following inks: Noodler's Bulletproof Black Parker Quin...

A sheet of sample swabs of various popular fountain pen inks has been in my studio window since March 10. The samples I tested in that roun...

Note: Too see all of my lightfastness tests to date, click here . You may recall that I started a series of Lightfastness Tests back...

I had 13 ink samples come in a couple of days ago: Noodler's Nightshade Noodler's Sequoia Noodler's Walnut Noodler's Na...