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  • 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

    Colorverse ink swatch cards with printed space/Hubble designs in three patterns, each swatched with a pair of inks. Colors are dark blue with intense red shimmer, purple with bright green shimmer, periwinkle with pink shimmer, red with gold sheen, and dark blueish green.
    → 1:50 PM, Jun 22

  • 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. 🖋

    Pen scribbles showing "Gentle Green" fountain pen ink from Teranishi that is bright blue while wet and turns green with red sheen as it dries.
    → 7:55 PM, Jun 10

  • Sailor Yurameku, the inks that laugh in the face of your attempts to organize swatches by color. 🤣 🖋

    Col-o-dex and Col-o-ring cards spread across a desk to dry after swatching Sailor Yurameku chromashading inks including Kangyou (pink, teal), Yoi (black, purple), Itezora (teal, purple), Byakuya and Seki (pink, green), Amamoyoi and Kyokuya (green, pink), Kitsune Biyori (reddish brown).
    → 1:30 PM, Jun 2

  • The Diamine Cult Pens exclusive Wonders of the World collection is a fun theme with some great colors in the lineup. 🖋

    Swatches and sketches of 7 Diamine inks (Cult Pens Exclusive) featuring Wonders of the World: Petra (a medium orange red), Colostrum (parchment brown), Machu Picchu (spring green), The Great Wall of China (dark green), Chichen Itza (light blue/gray), Taj Mahal (vibrant dark blue) and Christ the Redeemer (medium cool grey).Set of 7 inks and card swatches for the Cult Pens Exclusive Diamine inks featuring Wonders of the World: Petra (a medium orange red), Colostrum (parchment brown), Machu Picchu (spring green), The Great Wall of China (dark green), Chichen Itza (light blue/gray), Taj Mahal (vibrant dark blue) and Christ the Redeemer (medium cool grey).

    → 11:08 PM, May 27

  • 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. 🖋

    Swatches of mixed ink in a rainbow of colors.Close up collage of rainbow ink swatches, some bright colors and some darker, mixed with black ink.

    → 10:20 PM, May 25

  • 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.

    A completed Lego Orchid plant build with six large white and pink blooms, several more buds along the stems, and large dark green leaves, all set in a smal blue-gray Lego planter with brown pieces representing dirt and mulch.
    → 10:10 AM, May 19

  • 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.

    A bag of colorful Lego pieces of all shapes and sizes dumped into a pile in the middle of a desk.Screenshot of a podcast player showing a podcast episode being played "The Pen Addict: Building the Lego Orchid".

    → 6:55 AM, May 19

  • 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. 🖊

    Ink swatch cards for Diamine Celadon Cat, a medium blue green color, and Sailor's Warning, a bright brick red with pinkish shimmer.

    → 3:42 PM, May 11

  • More swatching! 🖋

    Wearingeul: Lost, Resurrection Sailor Manyo Dual Shading: Koke, Ayame, Hinoki, Ayame Sailor Manyo: Shirakashi Ferris Wheel Press: Moss Park Green

    → 8:32 AM, May 8

  • 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.

    Three Colorverse ink cards showing a field of stars in the gray-green ink a UMa, Jupiter in bright teal ink Dec 7, 1787, and an Astronaut working on COSTAR with the purple Jane Eyre ink by Wearingeul
    → 4:17 PM, May 6

  • I love how this col-o-dex is coming together–I have so many cards left to make! 🖋

    Short wooden tray with several col-o-dex cards with different color inks.
    → 3:50 PM, May 4

  • 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).

    → 11:35 AM, May 3

  • 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. 🖋

    5 col-o-dex cards for Sailor Yurameku inks. Zaregokoro features fashion sketches of a coat, pants, necklace. Dategokoro features the edge and footlights of a stage. Hanagokoro features flowers. Sukigokoro features a simple tea service. Kokoroguma features a shadowy figure and writing in a journal.
    → 1:34 PM, Apr 30

  • 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

    → 1:04 PM, Apr 30

  • 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.

    → 6:38 PM, Apr 28

  • The roses and iris are beginning to bloom.

    Three photos of pale pink roses and buds among green leavesRed iris blooming

    → 10:07 PM, Apr 24

  • 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

    → 9:13 PM, Apr 22

  • 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.

    → 1:39 PM, Apr 22

  • 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. 🖋

    → 1:37 PM, Apr 20

  • Lasagna soup–so good and a little spicy thanks to some Calabrian chilis.

    Bowl of lasagna soup with small lasagna noodles in a tomato cream sauce topped with ricotta, mozzarella, parmasean, and basil
    → 9:56 PM, Apr 19

  • 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.

    2 built Lego Bonsai sets with fall leaves and icy winter branches respectively, displayed alongside the original green branches and spring cherry blossom versions.
    → 3:58 PM, Apr 19

  • 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.📚

    → 1:37 AM, Apr 18

  • The latest entry in Inks + Books: Wearingeul “I am a Cat” and Coraline by Neil Gaiman. 🖋 📚

    Wearingeul 'I am a Cat' ink used to write quotes from the cat in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    → 1:53 PM, Apr 16

  • Naturally I have a helper for this page: Wearingeul “I am a Cat” 🖋

    → 5:07 PM, Apr 15

  • 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. 🖋

    Ink Swatch cards of 8 green and brown toned inks
    → 9:50 AM, Apr 14

  • More swatching today: Colorverse Walk the Dog and Chesapeake Bay 🖋

    Color swatch cards and notebook for a yellow green ink and a light, warm brown ink
    → 6:16 PM, Apr 13

  • Sailor Yurameku 2nd edition inks, photographed in sunlight this time. I’m working on picking quotes and sketches for the remaining 4 pages.

    → 12:12 PM, Apr 11

  • These Sailor Yurameku 2nd edition inks keep surprising me. The water washes are gorgeous but not always the colors I expected! 🖋

    → 10:28 AM, Apr 10

  • An ad for the Tetris movie reminded me I had been gifted this graphic novel, Tetris. I read it today, it’s an interesting story with a clever illustration style. I appreciated the inclusion of some history and role of games in general, since games have always been a significant part of my life.

    → 6:16 PM, Apr 9

  • Estie Honeycomb, Diamine Candle Light, and bees 🖋

    → 12:41 PM, Apr 8

  • Currently inked 🖋

    Row of fountain pens with written list of pen names and ink colors
    → 12:29 PM, Apr 8

  • Day off plans: start filling in the Col-o-dex, add any inks missing in the Col-o-ring, and other swatching/dip pens fun. I may regret not looking for a folded nib in Atlanta though. 🖋

    Photo of desk next to window with supplies laid out to create swatch cards for fountain pen ink
    → 9:59 AM, Apr 7

  • When I re-do my ink swatch cards, I think I’ll try to include little icons like this. These are four Birmingham Pen Co. inks. 🖋

    Photo of notebook with writing/drawing samples of four ink colors: pressed glass, rotten seaweed, horseradish mustard, brushwood
    → 6:17 PM, Apr 6

  • Diamine Inkvent 2021 (Red Edition) Candle Light, Esterbrook Estie Honeycomb, Tomoe River paper 🖋

    Photo of dot-grid notebook with writing in yellow Diamine Candle Light ink including rough sketch of two lit candles.
    → 10:53 AM, Apr 6

  • I tested out a Warren “one cent pen” from the 1890s that I picked up at the Atlanta Pen Show with Colorverse Project No. 013 α UMa ink. The nib flexes easily, has some scratchy feedback, and writes consistently. I love the green tone and dark edges of this Colorverse ink too. 🖋

    → 10:59 PM, Apr 5
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