Here are pairs of inks from Colorverse Season 7: Eye on the Universe on the “matching” Hubble ink swatch cards with ink-resistant space designs. Crazy sheen on some of these! 🖋
Pillars of Creation & Mystic Mountain extreme Deep Field & NGC 1850 Hubble & H S T
This is cool weird ink, “Gentle Green” from Teranishi. It reminds me a lot of Taccia Sabimidori but more green, it’s great. It starts off a bright blue that turns green with red sheen as it dries. 🖋
Sailor Yurameku, the inks that laugh in the face of your attempts to organize swatches by color. 🤣 🖋
The Diamine Cult Pens exclusive Wonders of the World collection is a fun theme with some great colors in the lineup. 🖋
I spent an evening mixing a rainbow of colors with the Everlasting Atomink Element Bundle of water-resistant fountain pen inks from Birmingham Pens. These are pretty cool, next I want to try to mix up my favorite green and put it in a Platinum Preppy to test how it writes. 🖋
Despite an unexpected early morning, I enjoyed the cooler morning weather with an open window while “hanging out” with the Pen Addict podcast for this Lego build before work. Great chill vibes with this gorgeous set, and I’ve even got extra pieces on the way for future customizations.
The annual tradition begins–building a Lego set with audio instructions only! It’s not my first time building this particular set, but we’ll see how it goes positioning everything into organic shapes without a visual reference.
Swatching the new Reddit-voted Diamine inks: Sailor’s Warning and Celadon Cat
They look surprisingly good together on the “Mystic Mountain” printed ColorVerse swatch card. 🖊
More swatching! 🖋
Wearingeul: Lost, Resurrection Sailor Manyo Dual Shading: Koke, Ayame, Hinoki, Ayame Sailor Manyo: Shirakashi Ferris Wheel Press: Moss Park Green
Trying out some new swatch cards by ColorVerse. They may be a fad, but it’s still very satisfying to see the design appear amid the shading of an interesting ink.
I love how this col-o-dex is coming together–I have so many cards left to make! 🖋
My “pick-a-brick” parts order came yesterday! The color choices for some pieces were limited but I’m feeling pretty good about how the “olive octopus” is looking. The second photo is the original colors (and bonus cat).
I finally finished the col-o-dex cards for the Sailor Yurameku (2nd edition) inks. I tried to challenge myself a little more with the sketches for these, to varying degrees of success, but it’s all good practice. 🖋
Franklin-Christoph inks 🖋
Noir et Blue: A cool-tone dark gray
Graphite 4B: A warm-tone dark gray
Shop Denim Blues: A green-tinted dark blue with some red sheen
Tenebris Purpuratum: A rich red-purple
The latest Lego flowers to join my shelves. The little pink and white flowers have a complex branch structure to create a more organic looking shape, I love the design that goes into these sets.
The roses and iris are beginning to bloom.
Wearingeul The Autumn Night after a Thousand Years–alluring, rich dark green with subtle sparkle
Wearingeul I am a Cat–so full of shimmer
Taccia Sabimidori–deep teal and bright blue with red sheen
Platinum Carbon Black–classic pigmented black, good for sketching and art
ColorVerse Project No. 013 α UMa & The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 🖋
This ink, named after the brightest star in a well-known constellation, that starts off gray then develops into a bright spring green with violet along the edges as it dries, felt like a good fit for Addie.
Wearingeul I am a Cat is full of shimmer, while The Autumn Night after a Thousand Years has subtle shimmer with a gorgeous dark green. TACCIA Sabimidori is so cool, there are similar dark teals but there’s a depth of blue here, similar to the blue in Sailor Sukigokoro compared to Shirakashi. 🖋
Lasagna soup–so good and a little spicy thanks to some Calabrian chilis.
I love many Architecture & Ideas Lego sets, but the newer Botanical line is delightful to build and display. It’s interesting to see car hoods, oars, even frogs transformed into flowers. Finding pieces to add fall and winter looks to the Bonsai was fun, I love seeing all four together.
Sailor DATEGOKORO 🖋
“The circus arrives without warning…. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.” The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This book is a love letter to the arts and creative collaboration, including the relationships between creators/performers and their patrons.📚
The latest entry in Inks + Books: Wearingeul “I am a Cat” and Coraline by Neil Gaiman. 🖋 📚
Naturally I have a helper for this page: Wearingeul “I am a Cat” 🖋
I think I like how these are turning out. I always want to be able to draw better, so this is one way to practice and hopefully improve as I do more cards. 🖋
