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

[Jan2016]

Robert Oster Fire and Ice

 

[Jan2016]

L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Omi Osun

 

[Jan2016]

Sailor Yama-Dori

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

My reference card for Diamine Asa Blue. Paper is Rhodia Pad 80g/m A4 blank.

I love this ink! Wet, saturated, a touch of nice shading and sheen.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Sometimes I re-read my research proposal so much that the sentences start to blur together. In those moments I close the Word file and copy cute stickers from Pinterest.

Pen: Sailor Pro Gear FM

Ink: Diamine Asa Blue

Paper: Rhodia Pad 80g/m

 

[ErrantSmudge]

Robert Oster Tranquility. This was an LA Pen Show purchase from the Anderson Pens booth. I'm posting this to both the Blue and Green TODs because it sits right between the two.

 

I like teal in real life, but I haven't been very excited by teal inks in general. I think it's because in bright colors, I prefer blue-leaning turquoises/cyans/sky blue, but not the greener looking ones. Greenish teals are okay to me when they are medium (like this one) or dark in tone.

 

[ErrantSmudge]

Diamine Majestic Blue. This one I got as a sample from Goulet. I like the blue, and would probably buy more if I didn't already have so many fabulous blues already. It is a saturated blue, and can smear and dry up in pens if you are not careful.

 

The astute observer will note red sheen in the ink blotch.

 

Edited March 1, 2018 by ErrantSmudge

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

ErrantSmudge Thank you for sharing. I wish Robert Oster inks were more readily available in Europe. Maybe in a few years.

 

This is a Shakespeare quote written with multiple pens. From left to right: A nameless Chinese piston filler with Lamy clone nib, Faber-Castell Loom M, Sailor Pro Gear FM, and Wing Sung 3003 EF.

Inks are from left to right again: Diamine Midnight, Diamine Blue-Black, Diamine Asa Blue and Diamine Havasu Turquoise.

Paper is Rhodia Pad 80g/m blank.

The font is a random font I've found on Pinterest. If you're interested I'll retrieve the pin and share.

BTW: I know there's a typo in "devils." Please don't mind that.

 

[gmathio]

My reference card for Diamine Asa Blue. Paper is Rhodia Pad 80g/m A4 blank.

I love this ink! Wet, saturated, a touch of nice shading and sheen.

 

 

 

Sometimes I re-read my research proposal so much that the sentences start to blur together. In those moments I close the Word file and copy cute stickers from Pinterest.

Pen: Sailor Pro Gear FM

Ink: Diamine Asa Blue

Paper: Rhodia Pad 80g/m

 

 

 

 

I really like this Diamine Asa Blue. I'm now using Majestic Blue, but asa blue will be my next ink !

Edited March 1, 2018 by gmathio

[minddance]

This is a great thread, I bookmarked all of these Inky TOD.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Still playing around with Diamine Asa Blue. This is the title of a great movie by Tornatore.

 

[Dip n Scratch]

Noodlers Baystate Blue is at least £21.86 for 85ml.

Visconti Blue would be £15.76 for the same amount

Diamine ink is £7.45 for 80ml.

 

The Noodler's ink is certainly a very striking blue. I don't know how it would work with my pens and paper without a sample. I have sent for one.

The cost of a bottle would really make me think "do I really need it" before I shelled out.

 

The driest pen I have is a Waterman Expert & I find that Diamine Blue Velvet writes about the same as Florida Blue or Royal Blue.

That Diamine ink is the best blue I have found so far for that pen.

If I wanted to use the pen heavily I think i'd have it adjusted to be wetter.

[minddance]

Still playing around with Diamine Asa Blue. This is the title of a great movie by Tornatore.

 

I am growing more attracted to Asa Blue now.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I really like this Diamine Asa Blue. I'm now using Majestic Blue, but asa blue will be my next ink !

 

 

I am growing more attracted to Asa Blue now.

 

 

I like writing with it very much, I recommend it. I bought it in alternative to Diamine Majestic Blue because I'd read that Majestic smudged when dry and I didn't want to smudge my notes when I studied them. Kudos to Diamine for the wide choice of vibrant blues in their catalogue.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

This is my card entry for Diamine Havasu Turquoise. I would love it more if it wasn't so picky with the paper. It bleeds through copiously with every paper apart from Rhodia and Clairefontaine. Fussy child.

Pen used for this card is Wing Sung 3003 EF and the paper is Rhodia pad 80g/m blank.

 

[amberleadavis]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

"Zebra disposable fountain pen"? As if Pilot's Varsity wasn't enough of an insult to the re-usable nature of fountain pens. Shame on you Zebra!

[amberleadavis]

They are actually very easy to refill.

 

Put them in hot water (nib up), then once warm, put the pen in a vial of room temperature ink nib down. The temperature difference creates a vacuum and bam, you have ink back in the pen. You also don't have to hunt down the pen thief if the pen comes up missing and if you drop it in concrete you don't have to cry.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

That sounds very easy but I'm against the principle of marketizing a pen as a disposable fountain pen, of making disposable fountain pens at all. It's the principle of the thing.

Fountain pens are to be minded more than common writing instruments, making 'disposable' ones doesn't make sense to me. Companies can just make something cheap like a Preppy so children and teenagers can approach fountain pens correctly: take care of the body of the pen and just change the cartridge. I just don't like the idea of disposable fountain pens.

Sorry about the rant, it's a bad time. I'm trying to teach a couple of my nieces to be more mindful with their school material since I'm often asked to replace this or that because they used it as darts against their room wall when they throw a tantrum or whatever.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

My card entry for Diamine Blue-Black. Paper is Rhodia pad 80b/m blank.

I don't know why the scan shows that sheen, I don't see it in person.