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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…
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Continue reading →: Day 12: My Purple Inky Swatches
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Memory Lane. This is a beautiful shimmering purple ink. Depending on the lighting is leans a bit towards a rosy color. Here is T’s swatch for today. T’s swatches were created with an automatic pen (top) and brush (bottom) I can see some blue and…
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Continue reading →: My Pen & Ink Wreath (prompt)
I mentioned in my previous watercolor blog post that I wanted to create a pen & ink wash wreath, but did not have the right colors in my five (5) artsy fountain pens. I decided this morning to “just do it” and see what happens. Instead of using my normal…
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Continue reading →: Day 11: An Apple a Day…My Bright Greens
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Appletini. This is a standard ink color with some lovely bright yellow undertones. T did a lovely job capturing this bold and bright green color with some dark sheen along the edges. I was flipping through my Robert Oster swatch cards and immediately came across…
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Continue reading →: Day 10: A Truffle?
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Dusted Truffle. It’s an unusual shimmering ink. Here’s a few pictures from T. This color reminds me of last year’s Seize the Night, but without the purplish underlying color. I narrowed down my choice to these three. I wanted to mention that Khaki Black is…
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Continue reading →: Day 9: My Vermilion Reds
Today’s Diamine Inkvent color is Cardinal. This is a lovely standard medium bright red ink. Here is T’s inky swatch. This appears to be a bold vermilion red color and not much else. Thank you T for taking the time to create and share your swatches with me. It was…
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Continue reading →: A Quick Watercolor Wreath & Inky Prompt
As a result of cleaning out the majority of my TWSBI GOs, I now have four (4) pens inked and they are not the colors I need for a wreath sketch. I may end up doing a monochromatic wreath with the remaining ink colors I have. We’ll see. In the…
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