Tag: Sargasso Sea

  • Ink Review: Colorverse Quasar

    Ink Review: Colorverse Quasar

    Colorverse inks are new to the scene inks from late 2017 and early signs were pretty interesting so I took the plunge and bought three of the inks. I was told by Colorverse (who were very helpful!) that the Season 2 “Astrophysics” inks were the sheenier inks so I  naturally gravitated towards them. Quasar is indeed from…

  • Ink Comparison: Diamine Blues

    Ink Comparison: Diamine Blues

    Reader, Alex, asked me to compare Diamine’s Oxford Blue to some other related dark blue Diamine inks so I’ve done just that! I have interpreted this not in terms of Diamine’s Blue-Black inks but in terms of their darker rich blues. This means that I have skipped the much darker blues such as the 150th…

  • 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…