New journal, new guardian.
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.”
Henry David Thoreau
From: Walden
It amazes me how much this quote fits our current times.
The ink is Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi (Horsetail Plant).
@kerravonsen Sheen depends very much on the interplay between ink and paper, which is one reason why some companies show swatches on different papers to show how the effect differs.
I really need to put some photos on my DreamWidth of my experiments, but if you take a look at the #SwatchWednesday hashtag here and on Bluesky you'll see several people posting examples.
A quote written in a dark blue from Diamine.
(Sorry, this came in a cartridge with a pen so not exactly sure what blue it is.)
It is from Crimson Shore by Preston & Child and made me laugh.
If you have ever had to use a microfiche machine, you know it's true.
"Two hours later, Constance sat back in her chair, blinking. The microfiche machine was a wonder of hideous 1980s technology, seemingly designed to cause blindness through prolonged use."
"Jes had not allowed himself to grow fat or lazy in his position. Styke hated him a little for that, but as far as hate went it was like throwing a glass of water into the ocean."
Sins of Empire
Brian McClellan
The ink is Sugar Kelp from The Birmingham Pen Co. This is not usually in the family of colors that I love but this ink is super interesting. The more you lay down, the greener it looks. Some nice shading. I got it as part of one of the bundles that they do.
The quote is from a really good book. The second series about the Powder Mages. Super interesting. Politics, revolution, magic and battles. I loved the first series and the second is off to a great start.
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Swatch Wednesday: Colorverse Black Hole
This was a gift from a friend who said it was more for the fun little bottle than anything exciting about the ink. It’s a pretty cute little bottle and I didn’t have one since I think the only colorverse ink I have is a sample.
Colorverse Black Hole ink bottle, which has an unusual teardrop shaped base. This is the front view showing the bit sticking out on one side. The illustration has a stylized black hole and a little planet saying “SOS” on it.
Love that little picture on the front. The bottle has a teardrop shaped base which I guess makes it a bit less likely to tip over and mostly just makes it interesting.
Colorverse Black Hole ink bottle, which has an unusual teardrop shaped base. This is thebottom view showing the teardrop shape, though it sits nice and flat because of the flat label on the front.
Inside, the ink is as one expects, a pleasant black. There’s a tiny bit of sheen visible in the swatch on the right, and indeed I can see that in my writing occasionally if I look at it under a sufficiently bright light, but it’s more a cute coincidence than a regular feature of the ink on the paper I’m using. Might be fun to try it on the iroful paper to see if it happens more consistently there; my current notebook is a leuchtterm.
My swatch card for Colorverse Black Hole, a black ink with a tiny hint of sheen in the bigger swatches.
I’m not too worried about getting the sheen to show up more, though, since the only other black ink bottle I have is a black with sheen from Inkvent Black (uuuh, Good Tidings I think it was called?). I’m guessing that Black Hole dries quicker, though I didn’t actually test that. I did, however, have some fun painting with it in the margins of my journal.
Some margin patterns in my notebook using Colorverse Black Hole ink on a paintbrush. One side has curly vine-like shapes, the other a geometric zig-zag with partial triangles.
Fun bottle and a nice practical ink. Overall a very nice present! And I think this is the last ink bottle or sample I had that I hadn’t swatched in my collection, so I’m all caught up and there’s no ink purchases on my horizon until the weather warms up, and maybe not even then — I’ve got so much to play with now!
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Swatching these Parker inks that @silhelm sent was tricky! They were in mini cartridges, so I had to pierce the cart, transfer the ink to an inkwell, and then use dip pens on the small amount of ink, which took lots of dips. It mostly worked, but I didn't dare swab them because that would have soaked up half the ink.
Pink is rather fluorescent as suspected, and Purple is a little, too. They had a surprising amount of sheen in the large swatches.
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Pelikan Edelstein Rose Quartz
I quite like this color, it does really look like the gem it's trying to emulate. Very dusty pink with nice shading. I used this in this M600 IB for a few weeks and it was really effective as a heading ink. Probably not so much as a writing ink.
I like this color a lot. It doesn't have a lot of variation in the line but it is a nice solid color. From Noodler's, it is called Liberty's Elysium.
Quote from The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
"I know how power works, *merci*." ... "And I know what happens to trumped-up little people who abuse what power they have. How the need for more and more hollows them out, eats away at them. Until they appear human but have lost all humanity."
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