Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Blue - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[amberleadavis]

Aurora Blue is WET WET WET. I love it. I think it's wetter than either of the other inks.

 

When you ask the ink aficionados, the Waterman inks do differ after a name change. I didn't use either enough to be able to easily tell the difference.

[HalloweenHJB]

Another super WET ink arrived today from Japan: Sailor Jentle SOUTEN. I may have a new go-to Blue (sorry Liberty's Elysium...)

 

Scanned image:

 

 

iPhone photo under florescent light:

[amberleadavis]

Very Nice

[HalloweenHJB]

Thanks to TRSS, we have... Chesterfield Capri! It's Capri-cious! (a small area of the sea is done in deA Myrrh, for contrast...)

 

Edited May 18, 2015 by HalloweenHJB

[amberleadavis]

Do you have it next to Souton?

[HalloweenHJB]

That will happen in a moment, now that you mention it!!

[HalloweenHJB]

Here's the comparison. VERY similar. But Souten has killer sheen that Capri is lacking. [The gray card is there to balance color from the scanner!]

 

[amberleadavis]

I'll CRV you a De Atramentis Sky, so stay inked.

[HalloweenHJB]

Sounds good!

[HalloweenHJB]

Wasn't sure --so I looked for an Inky T O D for Turquoise and Teal inks, but I guess they go in the Blue category?

 

Thanks to a generous person of great reputation, I have more S & K Arktisch Blau (Arctic Blue) to play with ---

 

[amberleadavis]

Are we ready for teal / turquoise?

[HalloweenHJB]

Are we ready for teal / turquoise?

 

Possibly. About half of the "blue" swatches are really cyan/turquoise (e.g., Daphne Blue, Havasu Turquoise, Pelikan Turquoise, Blu Mare, etc.) rather than real blue (Liberty's Elysium, Chesterfield Capri, Souten, Diamine Royal Blue, etc.). But perhaps I quibble about these distinctions. I have been known to quibble...

[amberleadavis]

Hey, half our oranges are also in the reds and and we have some serious cross over between red and pink.

[lgsoltek]

And brown...

[HalloweenHJB]

Cheers to all-inclusive categories!

[HalloweenHJB]

Wasn't sure --so I looked for an Inky T O D for Turquoise and Teal inks, but I guess they go in the Blue category?

 

Thanks to a generous person of great reputation, I have more S & K Arktisch Blau (Arctic Blue) to play with ---

 

 

In comparison, the newly acquired Diamine Marine. Less icy, and more pleasant, to my eye. But I like them both for different effects...

 

[amberleadavis]

They are quite similar though, I didn't expect that. Great work.

[HalloweenHJB]

And a new ink (for me) from Diamine. The swatch on the site looked more interesting. Oh well —one can never have enough medium blue....

 

[amberleadavis]

I admit to thinking Diamine made it's swabs look much more saturated than the ink is in the pen.

[HalloweenHJB]

Thanks for confirming what I had thought, too!