Bleeding Disaster

The calligraphy pens I ordered finally turned up. Having done some research, I settled on the disposable type over little bottles of ink and all that other faffing. As a backup, I ordered a medium nib fountain pen.

Now, given that I deliberately bought different paper that was supposed to take fountain pen ink, you can imagine my disappointment to find that both pens - disposable and fountain - bleed on the paper:

You can see it clearest on the version of "arise" I started at the bottom of the image.




This is quite a set back. I was hoping to do some pages at least with fancy handwriting as a replacement of my unruly scrawl and now I'm left with using rollerballs again.

Ah well. Back to the ole' drawing board.