I'm not crazy about using Arches as I prefer a bright white paper. My scanner has an issue scanning this and any other slightly toned or off white/yellowish paper color.
The Arches was originally purchased for straight watercolor painting before I started using Fabriano many, many years ago. Today.......I prefer to use pen and ink plus a wash in journals and because of that, this is my least favorite papers. In addition to the yellowish tint, I prefer a smoother tooth for how I work now.
I'm finding if my fountain pens have a dryer feed, they struggle putting down a nice line due to the tooth. If a wetter feed, it's not too bad. So far I've tried two different TWSBI pens with EF nibs, a Metropolitan with a F nib, and a couple Lamy pens with EF nibs. I feel I have to take care so not to put too much pressure for fear of ruining the tines. On another page I actually tried a Sharpie F marker pen which didn't fare as well as I would have thought. Too much skipping unless I moved slow and with pressure.
Original Scan versus color cast fix playing with water soluble graphite and watercolor pencils.
Previous few pages in the journal with Arches as I try the different fountain pens:
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