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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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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