-
Continue reading →: Day # 12: My Pen and Ink Combo
Ink: Diamine Stargazer Stargazer is a beautiful blue ink with shimmer and sheen. There’s a lot of blue shimmering particles in my bottle. When I saw the name on this bottle of ink, I knew I had to pair this ink with my Pilot Stargazer pen. As I was writing…
-
Continue reading →: Day #11: Let’s Party with Diamine!
Special note: I have to say Diamine has been capturing my heart with this calendar of beautiful inks. I enjoy playing with the colors and seeing each ink’s potential. It’s been an exciting journey and I have a chance to create some sketches along the way (more coming). Are we…
-
Continue reading →: Day #10: Feeling Peachy Today
Inkvent Day #10: Diamine Peach Punch I’m happy to see a few bright ink colors in this Diamine calendar. Peach Punch is a standard ink with some shading. To me, it’s truly a peachy color. I paired this ink with my Conklin All American in Sunburst Orange. This is one…
-
Continue reading →: Day #9: A Storm’s Brewing
Inkvent Day #9: Diamine Storm Here is a blue ink color called Storm. It’s appropriately named and has lots of shimmers. From the bottom of the bottle, the shimmering particulates appear to be green. I took this picture a minute after I created my swatch of color using my Automatic…
-
Continue reading →: Day #8: Is it a Fruit or Flower Color?
Inkvent Day #8: Diamine Raspberry Rose Here’s another standard ink from Diamine called Raspberry Rose. I would say this is a perfect raspberry ink color. There is some shading and a bit of sheen. The ring trim on my Conklin pen matched the ink nicely. Here’s a close up of…
-
Continue reading →: Another Pen & Ink Sketch
I’m enjoying my blocks of “artwork time” and using my Inkvent inks to create some quick sketches. My intent is to post a new sketch every few days to break up my Diamine inky blog posts. It’s also to share what can be done with the ink colors that may…
-
Continue reading →: Day #7: Oh So Bright!
Inkvent Day #7: Diamine Candle Light After opening the previous days’ inks, it was nice to see a lovely bright ink color appear on my radar. It’s a beautiful yellow ink that is also readable on paper. Door #7 was a bit tricky to find as I was looking for…

























