Tag: Rouge Hematite

  • Swatch Card Comparison

    Swatch Card Comparison

    I like to keep swatches of all my inks in a binder. In the past I’ve used Rhodia 80gsm but paper never felt right; too flimsy and I was never good at cutting accurate and consistent rectangles. In the past there was Maruman Mnemosyne Word Cards (which I never used), this year (2017) there is…

  • Sheen vs Shimmer (and some good sheeners)

    Sheen vs Shimmer (and some good sheeners)

    Back in 2015 Brian Goulet made a video and accompanying article about sheening inks. I love sheen, in fact it’s a major deciding point on whether I grab an ink or not, so this should be something right up my alley, but it wasn’t. The article conflated markedly differing ink characteristics, and made quite curious decisions…