Week #4 / 22 Jan: Red Packets Please - 2017 Weekly Ink Project

[lgsoltek]

Lunar New Year's Eve begins on Friday the 27th. Celebrate Lunar New Year with Asian friends by choosing a red ink, especially a festive one.

 

In China, married adults (or adults with jobs, different customs depending on the region) give small sums of money as gift to children and young ones for luck. The money is put into a red paper packet, like this:

 

(To be precise the one on the right is for weddings - due to the writing on the packet, but you get the idea.)

 

As usual, don't forget to share with us your choice of ink, your writing, drawing, doodling or anything with the ink in this thread. You can take a photo, make a scan, or even better, write letters and CRV reviews (what is a CRV?) and mail them to the many ink pals here. You are welcome to check back on this thread even when we've gone past this week.

For newcomers, click here to read more about this community project. Links to the two previous links can be found there too.

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Week #5 we are doing New Kid on the Block - Use your most recent purchase.

[visvamitra]

[dcwaites]

Vis beat me to it this time.

 

[lgsoltek]

[migo984]

[visvamitra]

[visvamitra]

[juulz]

What a fun red this is!

http://515-park.com/images/RedEnvelopes.jpg

[lgsoltek]

What a fun red this is!

 

 

 

Good advices! (For the last point the amount seems a bit high for me. Well it all depends on the region!)

 

I hear Kaweco Ruby Red is very close to Caran d'Ache Divine Pink.

[juulz]

 

 

Good advices! (For the last point the amount seems a bit high for me. Well it all depends on the region!)

 

I hear Kaweco Ruby Red is very close to Caran d'Ache Divine Pink.

 

I will have to sample the Divine Pink to see... I love pink!

 

(The website I learned the advice from gave the $ amounts... they seemed high to me, too! )

[Kolagnostos]

Great topic for the week! (I need to add more reds to my ink collection!)

 

Saturday, January 28

Chinese New Year 2017

 

http://www.cruzcreate.com/uploads/5/9/6/2/59625999/2017-wk4-ink-redpacketsplease_orig.jpg

[LizEF]

Great topic for the week! (I need to add more reds to my ink collection!)

 

Saturday, January 28

Chinese New Year 2017

 

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Beautiful drawing!

[visvamitra]

Wow, that's nice

[richila]

Week #4 Red Packet by Richila, on Flickr

Edited January 24, 2017 by richila

[amberleadavis]

These are wonderful to read about.

 

Juulz, welcome and thank you for the advice.

 

I think I need to pull out Red Cashmere since it was in a red packet.

[Old_Inkyhand]

Rhodia Ice + Cross Century II, medium nib (skips a bit on Rhodia, too smooth, hence the ugly letters).

[visvamitra]

[Kolagnostos]

 

Beautiful drawing!

@visvamitra

 

Awe, thanks. Some really nice reds here. This is a great way to know what I want to add to the collection!

[Runnin_Ute]

I didn't think to put Red Cashmere on this - it does however have Diamine Classic Red, Chesterfield Fire Opal (great name for this ink and the Lunar New Year) and Blackstone Uluru Red.

 

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/Runnin_Ute/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-01/20170124_200025_zpst1id7lzd.jpg

[inkstainedruth]

I had originally picked Rouge Hematite (original formula). But I hadn't used it for a couple of years, and the big flakes of gold must have dissolved or something, because there isn't a lot of particulate in the bottom of the bottle -- and even after shaking. the bottle to put it all back into suspension, there doesn't seem to be a lot of the gold on the page either. So I may be looking for a different red to finish out this week....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth