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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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Continue reading →: Day 13: My Blues for Today
Today’s Diamine Inkvent calendar color is Upon a Star. This is a dark blue chameleon ink. This ink has a cornflower blue undertone with lots of red sheen and green-blue shimmers. Most of swatches I’ve seen have the lovely green shimmers like T’s swatch on the left. I’ve also seen…



















