Red Diamine Inkvent, part 2

Part 1 is here and has some background details. One that I didn’t mention before: I take these photos with an iPhone XR. 1

I think Diamine is often strongest with its warm shades. One of my earliest full-bottle purchases was Terracotta, one of my first glitter inks was Golden Sands, and I’m fully on board with the love for Ancient Copper and Oxblood2. Anyway, here’s Day 16, Vintage Copper, up close.

I do see the differences between Days 9 and 12, Storm and Stargazer, but….ehh. The cool dark Diamine shades I like the most are usually the “chameleon” ones, where there’s more than one tone.

I was thinking that I might have to swatch Day 11, Party Time, again because it looked like I hadn’t rinsed off my dip pen completely. But I do swatches in order and Day 10, Peach Punch3, couldn’t have done that. So the blue-purple here is real. Cool.

The “standard” star in this group is Day 14, Red Robin. I love how the red-brown is loyal to its name — another proof in my Diamine warm shades thesis.

Sheen inks like Day 13, Ruby Blues, don’t do their thing on this roughly-equivalent-to-an-everyday-spiral-notebook paper, so I didn’t bother going in for a closeup. I like sheen inks, but not enough to pull them all and do right by them with formal swatches on Rhodia or Tomoe River. Time and life choices, etc.

Part 3, coming soon!

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P.S. I’m sorry to be missing AWP. Please consider yourself hugged!