What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[LWJ2]

Merry Christmas, all, or whatever is appropriate for you.

 

Faded Monteverde Green, and spots of Noodler's Kung-te-Cheng.

[HoosierGeek]

Today I have Iroshizuku Kon-peki on my fingers from flushing and inking my 14 year old daughter's Christmas gift - a Lamy Vista. It has a fine nib, but I imagine she'll want to get a stub of some sort eventually. Thus far she's only had fountain pens I've loaned or given her: a Pilot Metropolitan, a Plumix, a Waterman Kultur, and a Jinhao X450. This is the first pen she specifically asked for.

[Arkanabar]

Today, a little bit of Bad Black Moccasin (diluted about 5:4), Noodler's Blue, and Purple Mix 2.2 (Widow Maker, the so-called "Waterman Florida Blue" chronicled here, and distilled water at 4:2:1), and Noodler's Blue.

[dcwaites]

I have just found out that whilst my other inks will slowly fade after a number of hand-washings, Baystate Blue appears to have become an inky tattoo.

[eliweisz]

A spot of Diamine Salamander on my forefinger, after wiping the nib of my Sheaffer Vigilant, freshly inked.

[Noihvo]

[inkstainedruth]

Diamine Oxford Blue -- the Konrad it's in burped on me. Also a tiny bit of Birmingham Pens Shadyside Walnut Street Brown, from trying to get the pen it's in -- the vintage Sheaffer Balance Oversize that was originally my husband's grandfather's pen -- started up.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

Diamine Ruby, first a big spot from refilling the pen then a bit more later when I almost dropped it but managed to catch it.

[Aysun]

I have a nice spattering of Emerald of Chivor and a blend of red and black parallel ink (which turned a really pretty purple, oddly enough) all up my hand (and foot) from when I took a dremel to two of my 6.0 pilot parallels.

[amberleadavis]

Aysun, why did you take a dremel to the parallels, and was it a good result? If so, will you show us the result?

[chromantic]

I was lucky today - refilled my piston-fill Steadtler F1 with Tokiwa-matsu and syringe filled a cart with Inspired Blue without getting any ink on me.

[dcwaites]

You must be sharing the luck. I have just decanted some Platinum Pigment Blue from a not very good Platinum converter to an empty cartridge, then filled the cartridge from the bottle, smoothed the nib on a nail buffer, and there's nary a mark on me (except for the space under my thumbnail that I stabbed myself with the sharp point of a steak knife, and is now awash in iodine (does iodine count?).

[eliweisz]

A bit of Diamine Ochre (inking my Waterman Taperite).

[Aysun]

Aysun, why did you take a dremel to the parallels, and was it a good result? If so, will you show us the result?

I put a little notch in the nib so I could get automatic drop shadows.

 

I even have a sample with the aforementioned splatter

[ca49reber]

Rinsed Lamy Dark Lilac out of 1 pen & filled other with Diamine Tchaikovsky.

[cello]

Just the tiniest bit of Visconti Sepia from the top of the bottle as I filled my Van Gogh this morning, a fairly good and clean job today!

[amberleadavis]

I put a little notch in the nib so I could get automatic drop shadows.

 

I even have a sample with the aforementioned splatter

OH WOW, that is so cool. Thank you.

[eliweisz]

Parker Quink Blue Black. Flushing my Sheaffer Balance Junior.

[Newjelan]

Noodlers BSB - it leaked from my pen. (Why is it that this is the only ink that leaks onto my hands when I am writing?)

[Jimmy James]

My left hand had tons of splotches of Legal Lapis today. I got an eyedropper freebie with a FPR gift I asked for, and I filled it with that ink. It had been perfect, but I got to the exact half full point that is the trouble zone and ended up with the feed saturating and dropping ink. Happily, it was just my hand and my paper that got hit. My clothes were fine.