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My latest ink is Diamine Ochre I've never used Diamine Ochre before. However I have received letters from penpals written with Conway Stewart Kingsand, that is the same ink, and I decided I really liked it. So I decided to try a sample. It's a saturated reddish ochre earth colour with plenty of shading. It's less red than Diamine Ancient Copper and looks darker and more brown than Diamine Terracotta and Montblanc Carlo Collodi. It's like dark sand on a sandy beach.It wrote straight away without any hard starts or skipping. It lubricated the nib very well, but the flow felt slightly dry, as these red ochre type colours seem to be. It's a very water resistant ink. I could still see all of the writing, even after over 30 minutes, and though I blotted my water test with a piece of kitchen roll, the ink dots in the centre of the water test were still legible. Although this isn't a waterproof ink, it shows very good water resistance, as do many inks in this colour range.Bearing in mind the paper I use is thick with a shiny surface, and I used a Lamy F nib and a 1.1mm nib, this ink took 12-16 secs to dry. That's about average on this paper.It felt maybe a little drier than some other inks I've reviewed, but still flowed and lubricated the nib well enough. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottlesDiamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.It's a reasonable price.

My latest ink is Diamine Burnt Sienna I decided to try Diamine Burnt Sienna immediately after trying Ochre because I thought they were similar colours. Burnt Sienna has more red in it and would fit into the reddish browns group along with Diamine Terracotta and Montblanc Leonardo. It's less saturated than Ochre and is wetter, so it takes longer to dry. It wrote straight away without any hard starts or skipping. It lubricated the nib very well, and the flow felt slightly wet. It's a quite water resistant ink. Not as water resistant as Ochre. I could still see all of the writing, even after over 30 minutes, and though I blotted my water test with a piece of kitchen roll, the ink dots in the centre of the water test were still legible. Although this isn't a waterproof ink, it shows very good water resistance, as do many inks in this colour range.Bearing in mind the paper I use is thick with a shiny surface, and I used a Lamy M nib and a 1.1mm nib, this ink took 17-20 secs to dry.It felt a little wetter than some other inks I've reviewed, but still flowed and lubricated the nib well. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottlesDiamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.It's a reasonable price.