Diamine Inkvent 2022 – Day 1 – killer puppy tails

…okay yeah the title is generic. I don’t want to spoil people who might have their own calendars to open.

Today’s door opening! *drumroll*……….

The first paper door on a green and silver Advent calendar. The number 1 is drawn in gold on it, and the silver decoration around it looks like a bird carrying a sparkling pine branch in its beak. — Door #1, thickly-written gold number, with a little decoration of a silver bird holding a pine branch in its beak

Day 1’s ink is called “Bliss.”

I tested each ink using a borosilicate glass dip pen in a Maruman Mnemosyne notebook. The paper in the Mnemosyne is good for sheening inks but isn’t as thin as Tomoe River.

You can see the mistake at the beginning where I didn’t get the dip of the pen just right. Text reads “Day 1: Diamine Bliss” in my blocky handwriting. I added a test splotch at the end to show ink details.

Bliss is a light turquoise ink with some nice shading, but not much else to it. It’s a thin ink that writes a little dry and not in a pleasant way, making it difficult to work with after a few seconds of writing. I wouldn’t use this in a fine-nib pen unless I used that pen every day, and as someone w/ADHD, every day pen use isn’t going to happen.

A splotch of fountain pen ink in shades of light turquoise and robin's egg blue — A closeup of the ink splotch from the image above, showing off the shading of darker and lighter blues

It’s a pretty ink to paint with, though! The above splotch in close-up shows off its darker teal edges and the robin’s egg blue lighter bits. If I wanted to use this in an ink painting it would be moon shadows on snow, or a late-afternoon sky clear of clouds.

All in all, not an ink I’d purchase more of, but one I’m happy to have in my collection.

Next up: Day 2!

Diamine Inkvent 2022 – Day 1

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