Tag: Sheen
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Velvet Storm
This ink as some very unique sheen. It doesn’t have a lot but what it does have reacts very differently depending on the paper. Robert Oster teased this ink in August and announced the name in September. “Velvet Storm” is a great evocative name for an ink and suites this dark blue-green ink. Thank you to Pen Chalet who…
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Ink Review: Organics Studio Ralph Waldo Emerson Twilight Blue: “the third sheeniest ink in the world”
Organics Studio did what only few ink companies have done; made an ink that really creates a buzz. With Nitrogen Royal Blue, Organics Studio made an ink that everyone was (and still is) talking about. The same thing happened with J.Herbin’s Stormy Grey and Emerald of Chivor, and also with Robert Oster Fire & Ice. Nitrogen…
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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…
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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…
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Ink Comparison: Sailor Dark Reds
Sailor Inks are one of my favourite brands of ink – this is no secret. In general the characteristics their inks are what I look for in an ink. Reds are not my favourite colour but Maroons, Burgundies, Bordeauxs (etc.) are shades of red I really like, in fact they are one of my favourite…
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Signature Ink River of Fire
While Robert Oster Signature Ink’s Fire & Ice isn’t going to go anywhere, River of Fire hopes to be the successor to Fire & Ice’s crown. Like Fire & Ice, River of Fire has a great name and a border of sheen. The ink colour itself was created based on the colour of Rob’s boyhood…
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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…
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Ink Review: Organics Studio Nitrogen Royal Blue
I picked up Organics Studio Nitrogen Royal Blue late last year and it is one of the most astonishing inks I have ever used. The sheen on this ink is like nothing else, the name of the ink is odd and the for some strange reason the ink just gets everywhere but I’m willing to…