Les coquillages, dans ses mains,
Je ne sais pourquoi,
Changeaient de destin.
Elle les caressait, les palpait
Elle en extirpait la poésie cachée.
Ils ont sûrement un langage
Eux qui subissent les marées et voyagent.
Les plus ondulés, quelle merveille!
Ils chuchotent tous à l’oreille…
— Marie Dionne, Peintre, poète, artisane. Sainte-Barbe 1993
I’ve been fiddling with the Jinhao X750 Fountain Pen in order to modify it to fit a Zebra G Nib instead of its regular nib. Why? Because the Zebra G Nib is a very flexible nib which is usually used with dip pens, not fountain pens, and I don’t really like dip pens as you constantly need to dip your pen in ink. So why not convert it?
The Zebra G Nib is very cheap (it comes in a box of 10 nibs on Amazon for about $19 CAD) and the Jinhao Fountain Pen is also a very cheap fountain pen (on Amazon about $15 CAD), so if I am to break or damage the fountain pen, it is not a great loss. But thankfully, nothing bad happened and the pen is working very well thank you!
As you can see below, just by pressing harder the line thickens and when you lessen the pressure, the line is very very thin. Nice -))) The only drawback is I could not really draw very fast as it seems as though the ink takes more time to flow… not a great deal, but I will still tweak it tomorrow.
Moleskine Sketchbook 3″ x 5″
Ink: DeAtramentis Document Ink Black
Fountain Pen: Jinhao with modified Zebra G Nib
Painting to see : Peindre pour voir 