Divine Pink - Caran D'ache Chromatics

[visvamitra]

When I got sick few years ago (virus called pens and inks), I started picking different inks. I was amazed by Caran d'Ache Color of the Earth inks.

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The thing is the inks were discontinued before I had a chance to try all of them. I was disappointed to hear Colors of the earth were replaced by Chromatics.

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OK, the bottle is cool, colors seem nice, so what's the problem?

One - no more Amazon and Grand Canyon! I can get over Amazon, with time I started to prefer murkier greens, but Grand Canyon was in my top 5 of browns.

Two - the price. OK, Chromatics bottles are 50 ml compared to Colors of the Earth 30 ml bottles yet the price per ml increased by 25,7 % (I compare prices in Poland : 55 PLN / 30 ml vs 115 PLN / 50 ml).

Are they really worth it? Well, I like the way Caran d'Ache market their products, I like the bottle and the brand. If I'll be able to try all of these inks, I'll review them here. It will take time though. At the moment I have only sample of Organic Brown and Ultraviolet bottle. Some time ago I've reviewed Infinite grey which was cool.

1. Cosmic Black
2. Delicate Green
3. Divine Pink
4. Electric Orange
5. Hypnotic Turquoise
6. Idyllic Blue
7. Infinite - Grey
8. Infra Red
9. Magnetic Blue
10. Organic Brown
11. Ultra Violet
12. Vibrant Green

Divine Pink is, sursprisingly, really cool ink. It's not really pink, it's red with pinkish accents. It won't suit everybody but I enjoy the color. There's not a lot of pictures not because I dislike it, but because I have really hard time trying to show the color of this one. It's complex and interesting. Cool ink.

Ink Splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID

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Waterproofness

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Clairefontaine, Aurora Kona, F

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Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

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Green = CdA Delicate Green, Blue / Black = CdA Magnetic Blue

Edited September 23, 2015 by visvamitra

[Davros]

I really have to get hold of some of this.

[amberleadavis]

OMG, I am so impressed. I just tried it. I love it.