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Continue reading →: Day 19: My Dark Blue Swatches
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Silent Night. This is a standard dark blue ink color with a some red sheen. T’s swatch shows an amazing amount of red sheen. Silent Night is what I call a true blue ink color. I came up with four ink swatches that have similar…
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Continue reading →: Day 18: My Olive Green Swatches
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Olive Swirl. This is another chameleon ink with some green-gold-pink shimmers. From the online swatch samples there appears to be a dark brown sheen as well. The bottom of T’s bottle shows off the shimmering colors of green, gold, and pink. Absolutely gorgeous! Olive green…
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Continue reading →: Day 17: My Orange Swatches
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is a standard ink called Flame. It’s basically a bright orange ink. From T’s swatch, I can see some lovely blooms created from the drops of water interacting with the ink. I do not have too many orange inks. I think Wonderland and Flap Jack Orange…
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Continue reading →: Bath Time for My Poor TWSBI GOs
As many of you know, I really enjoy using my TWSBI GOs for sketching with my fountain pen inks. I typically keep a dozen or more GOs filled with a variety of colors. Sometime this year, I had about 15 pens filled with shimmering inks at one time. Many of…
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Continue reading →: Day 16: My Teal Swatches
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Serendipity. It’s a teal ink color with an intense red sheen and a rose-gold-copper shimmer. I can see from T’s writing sample, I can hardly see the blue ink color. It’s mostly the red sheen I see. In T’s swatch there’s definitely a teal base…
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Continue reading →: Day 15: My Chocolate Browns
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Pick Me Up. This is a scented and sheening ink. The swatch from T shows a lovely bright green sheen with a light coffee scent. The color reminds me of chocolate brown. Here are my choices for today. Last year’s Winter Spice came to my…
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Continue reading →: Day 14: My Dark Golden Yellows
Today’s Diamine calendar color is Three Kings which is a standard golden yellow ink color. There appears to be a dark sheen on T’s swatch card. Here’s my selection for today. Brandy Snap and Candle Light are from last year’s calendar. I also included two swatches from Robert Oster to…
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