What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[welch]

Diamine Sapphire. Just reliable...like a Waterman with a bit more punch.

[robzap]

I get ink on my hands all the time, as all of us fountain pen lovers do. Even though I've been using them for a while I still get ink on my hands no matter how careful I am. I use fountain pens every day, and worse yet, I like to play with all kinds of colors in all kinds of pens, so I'm always flushing and filling....which means my hands are perpetually colorful. If all this wasn't bad enough, I do up all of my ink samples and swabs for GouletPens, so you wanna talk about opportunities for colorful hands, you got it! I view my colored fingers as a right of passage, a sign that I am enlightened to a higher appreciation for writing....at least that's my justification

 

Yesterday I had a thumb with some Diamine Majestic Purple. Today my other thumb has PR Avacado with a splash of J. Herbin Rouge Hematite (1670) on various fingers (decanting!). So I ask you, what color are your fingers today?

 

A mishap while refilling with Noodler's Black is across three fingers, some Ishirozuku Yama-budo and a small splotch of Diamine Chocolate Brown.

[tanalasta]

MontBlanc Black

I have the misfortune of a pen that is leaking from a hairline section crack :embarrassed_smile:

 

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[bigstick]

an arterial spray pattern of violet pensée across the left palm from cleaning out the Pilot VP this morning.

[inkspot]

From a major cleaning/refilling session of most of my pens I am sporting Diamine Pumpkin, Diamine Kelly Green, Diamine Damson, PR Chocolat, PR Plum, and some random grey splotch that I can't identify...

[physicsgirl]

Diamene Oxblood, Diamene Green/Black, Diamene Twilight, Diamene Grey, and Private Reserve Black Cherry

 

I'm usually not this messy, but I guess there was some ink at the top edge of the sample vials I was using. :roflmho: Oh well I wear them as a badge of honor. Hmmm just noticed some black ink and maybe some PR Black Cherry on my arm; must have rubbed it on some notes that weren't quite dry.

[Flaneurette]

PR Naples Blue, Herbin's Cacao du Bresil and Herbin's Olive Vert plus blue and red from a leaking stamp.

 

Got a glass pen and ink as a gift from my students yesterday. They had obviously spotted my ink-stained fingers

Edited December 14, 2010 by Flaneurette

[Ghost Plane]

Herbin's Birmanie - I forgot and spread my left ahead across a still-damp page. :embarrassed_smile:

[TWRDO]

PR Electric DC Blue on the fingers today.

[Goodwhiskers]

Noodler's standard Red

[bassopotamus]

Mostly Ottoman Azure with a little Diamine Evergreen for good measure

[gentlewarrior6]

Visconti blue, from the tip and grip of my Visconti Homo Sapiens.

[countrydirt]

Noodler's Navy - but not my fault! I left one of my pens on my desk during class - my Noodler's Nib Creeper. I was working with several students in the back of the room. When I finally made it back to my desk, after the period was over and actually after lunch, I noticed several dots of ink on the floor near my desk and heading to the trash can. I gingerly picked up my pen and before I could even think of unscrewing the cap, I realized my fingers were covered in ink! I cleaned the pen and cap, then went on a search for the student who I noticed sitting at my desk. I found him, held up my hands and gave him a questioning glance. He simply held up his hands and I saw 10 fingers, palms and the back of one hand completely covered in Noodler's Navy. "I didn't know the back unscrewed!" :roflmho: Last year it was BSB!

[thrage1]

Pelikan brilliant black on my palms, tanzanite on my right middle finger forrest green on my right pointer

[thrage1]

Pelikan brilliant black on my palms, tanzanite on my right middle finger forrest green on my right pointer

[IWantThat]

Hmmmmm...clear Time to fill up a pen or two!

[physicsgirl]

Hmmmmm...clear Time to fill up a pen or two!

 

Yup you must have at least two colors present on your hands at all times.

[liapuyat]

A bit of Herbin Lierre Sauvage smudged with Aurora Blue

[tanalasta]

Sailor LE green (I think it's Tokiwa Mat / Evergreen)... a very dark green/black and suitable for daily writing. Works well, dries relatively quickly and rather feather & bleed resistant. Alround nice properties. Refilled... twice... a Visconti 1.3mm stub Homo Sapiens which returned from a nib swap today from Bryant Greer.

 

Mixed with J'Herbin's lovely eclat de saphir in a Visconti Ecoroller in the same package. Thought briefly about buying bay state blue for the ecoroller and good thing I decided against seeing how much elcat I got on my fingers!

[inkspot]

Diamine Kelly Green - bright and cheery for grading those pesky papers and exams