✒️ Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Last day of Inkvent 2025:
And then there was one... Diamine is the only ink that remains for today, and my prediction from yesterday was accurate: it's a teal ink with sheen and shimmer, and it's pretty dark. Swatches Myrrh the Merrier is a cute name, although myrrh itself is not teal at all. 😛 The
Most felicitous greetings of the season to you all and thank you for travelling along with me in this inky journey this month.
The last ink of the calendar is called "Myrhh the Merrier" ha ha I see what Diamine did there.
It's a pretty luscious dark teal with a sheen that I can't quite see in this light, but we'll see if we can take a better look later. And it has shimmer as well, in pretty blue. So it's both a dessert topping and a floor wax and very pretty it is too.
I thought I'd take a bit more time for our finale, and seeing as I'm staying at a seaside hotel for Christmas visiting my sister, the sea was on my mind. With the colour nice and nautical I wanted to create a sea monster that wouldn't look out of place on a mediaeval map of the seas... Here be Dragons and all that. And I started thinking about placoderms and sclerotic rings and gulper eels.
And this chappy appeared after 2-3 hours.
Now I'm not seeing any sheen there, but I don't have any sunlight to hand right now.
But the sparkle shows up pretty well.
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Myrrh the merrier, shimmer and sheen
The big finale of the calendar, a nice deep blue with teal hints, glitter, and sheen. Mayhaps not my favorite but I can't deny it's a pretty one!
✒️ Inkvent 2025 - Day 24 🎄
Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate! Colorvent ends today and somewhat redeems itself from the last couple inks that didn't really appeal to me. Diamine continues with their pigment inks in a color I can get behind, finally. Swatches Colorverse Looks like Colorverse took a cue from Diamine for
✒️ Inkvent 2025 - Day 24 🎄
Antler, pigment
An earthy brown pigment, pretty nice, flows well
It's the second last day of the Diamine inkvent calendar for 2025 and this time it's another pigment. This one is named Antler.
It's flowing really well with the dip nib I'm using and is doing everything I ask of it.
In case you can't read my writing
"We had been 5 days surveying the surface of the frozen planet. Fatima noticed that one of the huge herbivores, the ones we had been calling megacorns due to the large single antler-like protrusion growing from the back of their heads, was a bit different. It was nearly 4 times the size of the typical megacorn, almost 6 metres long, and its protrusion was apparently carved with animal and bird designs, as well as eyes and stars.
As far as we knew, we were the first people on the planet. Were there inhabitants? And how impressive would they be, to be able to subdue a creature like this for what would have taken many hours for a skilled carver. Or was this a tame beast wandering? The most intriguing mystery of the place yet. We weren't keen to try going up to pat the creature yet.
(c) Alicia 'leece' Smith."
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✒️ It's Christmas Eve Eve! 🙂 Inkvent 2025 - Day 23
Diamine's offering for today is more appealing than Colorverse's (again), perhaps, in part, thanks to the name. Swatches Colorverse Readers familiar with my preferences can tell you that Lunar Black isn't for me. Too dark, too close to black, even though it's a dark gray. It has hints of greenish
Today's inkvent is no. 23, and it's called "Let It Snow". Fat chance here, with a boiling hot Christmas day bearing down on us in Perth. It's going to be very much a shelter in place sort of day I think.
But back to the ink, it's a very pretty cerulean, made even prettier by the chameleon shimmer.
Again, this yellowish paper that I'm using - which is fine, great, recycled - isn't going to show it at its brightest.
But it will do for now.
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Let it snow, chameleon
A bright blue with even brighter glitter, pretty nice NGL!
Cheryl Lindo Jones
leece
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