Nan-King India ink is a fluid, indelible black ink with excellent durability. The deep black ink can be used pure for calligraphy and drawing or diluted with water. It is an acrylic ink with a black pigment. It is full covering and luminous after drying.

Nan-King India ink is a fluid, indelible black ink with excellent durability. The deep black ink can be used pure for calligraphy and drawing or diluted with water. It is an acrylic ink with a black pigment. It is full covering and luminous after drying.

Nan-King coloured inks are high quality, transparent and intense drawing inks. They retain their brightness and luminosity when drying and over time. A selection of 10 colours allows for a wide range of creativity. Nan-King coloured inks can be applied easily with a brush, metal, goose or bamboo nib or with an airbrush.

Hom Nguyen, a French artist of Vietnamese origin, was born in 1972. His work is inspired by his personal history and echoes the artist's origins, to give a universal and human dimension. He creates instinctively with a generous Indian ink, the Nan-King Lefranc Bourgeois ink. The portraits he paints are formed by a multitude of strokes, each with its own trajectory. His precise and lively gestures form a face that communicates the emotion of the moment, and brings out the human aspect that is at the heart of his work. It is not the beauty of the faces that he wishes to highlight but their expressions and feelings.
The interest of working with Nan-King inks is that they can be mixed with each other and also with other ranges such as acrylic. The black ink can be used to create an infinite number of shades, from deep black to light beige to brown. Hom Nguyen works on blotting paper or rice paper, he dances the brush on the support with a large quantity of water to obtain a transparent ink.

Michel Costiou, an artist from the Pyrenees, grew up in Toulouse where he studied at the Beaux-Arts before joining the ENSBA in Paris, then the Atelier Supérieur de Peinture Chapelain Midy and the Ecole Estienne in the Bauhaus movement training section. Through his encounters, he discovers the fascinating world of dance and opera, where he creates a multitude of sketches live during performances. Dancers came to pose in his studio to finance their dance classes.

Michel then founded the very first movement drawing workshop with musicians, dancers, acrobats and mimes at the Académie d'Art Roederer, Place des Vosges in Paris, a spontaneous experimentation of rhythms and postures that has since been practiced in all art schools.