Bleu Azur - L'artisan Pastellier

October 21, 2014

L'Artisan Pastellier is french ink / calligraphy materials producers. They offer two lines of inks suitable for fountain pens: CALLIFOLIO (inks made for fountain pens, neutral PH and so on) andENCRES CLASSIQUES (not all of them may have perfect properties however I've tried most of them and had no issues in my fountain pens).

L'Artisan Pastellier inks don't get much love or attention here. I understand this as they're not easily obtainable. You may buy them directly from the producer's on-line/stationery boutique. The best thing to do is to organize group buy (I've done it twice last year for polish sountain pen board). It's nice thing to do - you get to meet a lot of people to exchange inks and the shipment cost becomes really friendly.

I must admit I'm huge fan of Callifolio series. They have cool names and some trully unique colors. They're nor super-saturated but I like them this way.

Soon I'll prepare comparison of all 36 colors (there are two new Teodora and Olivastre) but it'll take time. Maybe November?

I'll make reviews of some of them.

Bleu Azur is really nice. I like this ink a lot.

INFO

Producer: L'Artisan Pastellier

Color: Bleu Azur

INK SPLASH

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DROPS OF INK ON KITCHEN TOWEL

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SOFTWARE ID

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COLOR RANGE

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Calendar - Kaweco Classic Sport, Broad nib, eyedropper mode

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October 23, 2014

You have tried a lot of blues you mentioned that this one is slow to dry, but the flow was really nice. What specifically draws you to this blue?

October 23, 2014

Color and flow, it's not dense ink but it lubricates Kaweco nib reasonably well so that writing is enjoyable. I guess there's so many good blue inks on the market that this wouldn't win my vote while compared to dozens of other blue inks. However as I don't use blue a lot, this one was really enjoyable compared to other blue inks I was using recently (maybe 8-10 of them).