Diamine Inkvent (Red edition) Calendar 2021

[PithyProlix]

8 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Day 5 of Diamine's Inkvent Calendar gives us Harmony, a standard ink with a greyish rose tone, leaning towards a dusky purple and very hard to capture in photographs. I did not quite get the muddy red that exhibits here and there, but the pics might give you an idea of what to expect:

 

 

Pen is a Sailor Pro Gear Slim Mini(fied) Shikiori Yakitsubaki with a 14 k Italic Medium nib.
Papers are a Life Vermilion A6 cahier with red lines (hence the name) and a blank A5 Leuchtturm 1917 notebook. On the creamy paper of the life cahier the ink looks a bit warmer than on the Leuchtturm paper. You might see that below where on the lined paper in the collage the inks appears a tad more reddish.

 

 

In a more generous nib you might even some shading, but I only got very subtle variation here with the stiff nib in my Sailor pen.

 

 

 

Another one I was looking forward to see you do and 😘! Thanks! 

 

So far, this Inkvent seems much better to me than the last. I am really interested in two, maybe three, of the first five. I was interested in only one of the whole last series. 

[JulieParadise]

Day 6 of Diamine's inky fun called Inkvent Calendar gives us Winter Spice, a shimmery sheener (?) with a warm brown base colour and some blueish shimmer.

 

Papers are a lined A6 Life Vermilion cahier with cream paper and a blank A5 Leuchtturm 1917 notebook.

 

 

The first pictures show the ink with a Pilot Décimo with a once heavily bent M nib that I converted to a medium to broad italic.

 

 

Those parts of the lines where the ink gets down on paper with a little less wetness stay a tad bit paler, not as saturated, and those parts are where you get to see the actual colour of the ink, a nice warm brown.

 

 

The Pilot Parallel Pen has the advantage that it may be used with both its broad tip as well as with the very edge of the blade. This is where the fine lines come from. Tilting the pen a bit while writing on the edge also gives you a varied line. So much fun!
 

 

 

Above the upper left pic shows writing with the wetter and broader Décimo nib, the other three pics show writing done with the Parallel Pen.

 

 

 

Again: Upper writing sample with the broad Décimo, other two with the Parallel Pen.

 

Verdict: Well, Winter Spice is a nice ink, but I have come to stay away from such saturated inks a bit as they tend to become very dense and heavy. That might just be a fad in my personal preference, but still ... All in all I am happy with the Inkvent inks so far, they are weird but still nice and/or interesting. 

[JulieParadise]

Oh, I'm so sorry! I typed a whole paragraph after some empty lines before inserting the last link/picture. It seems that the software then deletes what comes after the new link/pic, so you cannot type all your text and then sprinkle the photos over it ...

 

I was thanking you all for your very kind and heartwarming words and still want to say thank you! 

 

Spoiler ahead: Today is going to be a brighter day regarding what the calender gives us, how fitting! 🤗

[JulieParadise]

Day 7 already and one with a lighter ink: Candle Light (Standard). As this colour is hard to capture, I start off with a comparison to some of the yellow/light ochre inks I have found in my drawers (upper left to lower right): 
Diamine Amber -- Diamine Guitar Honey Burst -- Diamine Sunshine Yellow -- Diamine Shimmering Golden Sands

--> Diamine Inkvent 2021 #7 Candle Light

KWZ El Dorado -- Noodler's Apache Sunset -- Rohrer & Klingner Helianthus -- Sailor Manyo Yamabuki

 

 

The writing on the comparison shot above and on the blank page below, where I wrote out the name of the ink above the text of the "Abendlied" de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abendlied_(Matthias_Claudius) was done with a glass pen. For all other writing I used a Sailor 1911s (Profit Standard) Ivory with a generous Music Nib.
 

 

Papers: Comparison on Tomoe River cream 52 g/m², lined paper is a A6 Life Vermilion cahier and the white blank paper is an A5 Leuchtturm 1917 notebook.
 

 

 

The pictures may not show it as clearly as I wished, but in my opinion this is not an orange ink. The colour leans towards orange, but for me it stops right at the edge of orange territory and remains in the realm of ochre, darker/brownish yellow, maybe a very light brown. 

 

Do I like this ink? Yeah, it is quite vivid and, at least compared to the dense and dark tones we got so far, it is cheery and feels light (not too light to use) and warm.

[Matthew TWP]

5 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Do I like this ink? Yeah, it is quite vivid and, at least compared to the dense and dark tones we got so far, it is cheery and feels light (not too light to use) and warm.

 

Beautifully captured, as usual!  In my video, I also compared this ink with Diamine Amber and Diamine Golden Honey, and found that where Candle Light is dark, it's more brown than orange (whereas Amber is fairly orange when heavy). I still haven't had a chance to write with this one in a fountain pen, but with the glass dip pen, I really love the shading, and it seems dark enough to be useful. 

 

 

[essayfaire]

Wow, @JulieParadise!  Lovely work, again.  We haven't opened today's door yet, but I couldn't restrain myself from a glimpse of today's post.  

[Uncial]

@JulieParadise

I've fallen behind but I did get Harmony into a pen today. It was in a Pelikan broad nib, so not exactly dry. I felt it was much, much softer than your pictures. I think sometimes cameras and scanners can make an ink appear more saturated than it really is. It's not that dissimilar to those pale colour shifting inks, but it has better flow and lubrication. I don't normally like pale, greyish purples but this one is actually very pretty and a rather unusual ink.

[RevGina]

10 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Do I like this ink? Yeah, it is quite vivid and, at least compared to the dense and dark tones we got so far, it is cheery and feels light (not too light to use) and warm.

 

OMG! It's lovely! I'd definitely buy a full bottle of this one. (Also, I just opened day 8 (it's 2 am here), and that's definitely one I want to buy a full bottle of, too, but I won't spoiler it for anyone!)

[Dione]

For me Candle light writes like a fairly standard yellow ink.

[Licue]

12 hours ago, Uncial said:

I've fallen behind but I did get Harmony into a pen today. It was in a Pelikan broad nib, so not exactly dry. I felt it was much, much softer than your pictures. I think sometimes cameras and scanners can make an ink appear more saturated than it really is.

Maybe your pen being very freshly filled plays a part too?

[Dione]

30 minutes ago, Licue said:

Maybe your pen being very freshly filled plays a part too?

I also have a pen filled with Harmony and would describe it as a lilac ink 

[JulieParadise]

Raspberry Rose is the name of today's Inkvent ink, a standard ink with a pinkish berry tone ranging from a soft carmine to a more burgundy red in wetter pens.
 

 

 

Papers are a small A6 lined Life Vermilion cahier on the left and a blank A5 Leuchtturm 1917 notebook on the right. The pen I use is a wet Pelikan M150 with a fine/medium nib. I also used a glass pen (dipped) to write the name of the ink on the blank Leuchtturm notebook, dipped once and then written in one move. There you may see how the ink flow respectively the amount of ink flowing from a writing device influences the colour (above, on the lower right pic of the collage). 

 

 

Above on the lower right pic of the collage you also have a direct comparison between writing with a glass pen (first two lines) and the Pelikan piston filler (name of the poet and the poem).

 

Unfortunately I always disliked colours that fall into the burgundy or brownish red range, so this ink leans a tad bit too far into that territory to be my favourite among the calendar's inks, but maybe I find a drier pen that brings out the pinkish hue more ... I'll definitely give this a second or third chance before ... har har ... writing it off, or, if all else fails, use it with the glass pen. 

[inkstainedruth]

Ooh, that one is the best yet!  I could definitely see myself using Raspberry Rose.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DrDebG]

Raspberry Rose is a lovely ink.  I love the way it halos (edges are darkened).  It also shades quite nicely.  

[JulieParadise]

Today's ink, No. 9, is called Storm, and what an exciting, lovely kind of storm it is!
 

This ink I have in a Moonman f9 with a fine italic nib since Nov 20/21, so if the shimmer had clogged the pen, it would be obvious ... and obviously, all writing works just fine, although the shimmer is hiding. (I swear I shook the bottle well before filling, but somehow it does not show. Hmpf.)

Papers are a lined A6 Life Vermilion cahier on the left and a blank Leuchtturm 1917 A5 notebook on the right. In that Leuchtturm book I wrote the upper two lines (Inkvent + name of the ink) with the glass pen you also see on the bigh overview pic.
 

Some more shimmerless writing (but: Isn't the blue just beautiful!?) Ah, I love it!

On the bottle you also see how some sheen might be possible in very wet and thick applications. (Storm is supposed to be a shimmer ink, not a sheener.)
 

I also have this ink in a Pilot Parallel Pen 2,4 mm, which fared equally well, but had a little dry-up in the middle of the first writing sample. (I flossed the plates with the little shim that comes with the pen and went forward, now getting a ton of amazing shimmer.

The fine lines are written with the very edge of the "nib".
 

Two more ink splatters (I'd love to crawl into those layers of colour and cover myself in them as if they were a velvety blanket), "Storm" written with the glass pen and the part of the poem where the glitter was released again after the short issue.

That's it, that's Storm. I just love how it looks; my absolute favourite so far!

[DrDebG]

Thank you for taking time to post this.  I really like this ink.  I love the slight dark burgundy sheen and the light gold shimmer (silver and gold?).  This is one of the best of the 9 inks.  

[inkstainedruth]

22 hours ago, DrDebG said:

Raspberry Rose is a lovely ink.  I love the way it halos (edges are darkened).  It also shades quite nicely.  

Oh I hadn't noticed the haloing in JulieParadise's photos.  That's just an added bonus!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Uncial]

Candlelight has quite a pronounced halo too.

Despite having a medium dry time it feels rather dry when writing.

[JulieParadise]

Peach Punch is the tenth ink in this year's Diamine Inkvent Calendar. Sounds delicious, doesn't it!? Well, not quite ...

 

 

Today I must admit that my photos might be deceiving, as the ink does in fact look better there than what I perceive when looking at the pages before me. I did give this ink everything I could: Nice fountain pen friendly paper (Life Vermilion A6 lined cahier with cream paper, Leuchtturm 1917 A5 blank notebook with white paper), a generous nib (14k Zoom nib in a Sailor Nagasawa Kobe Proske = Profit Standard Skeleton), time (the ink has been in the pen for three weeks now), and another run with a glass pen (first two lines with Diamine Inkvent + name of ink) in the Leuchtturm 1917 book. But still ... argh, I don't like this one. 

 

The collage below shows another problem that not just this ink gives me: On the two pics that seem to be there twice you can see how the camera with autofocus (my eyes are weird and my hands shaky, so auto mode it is for me) picks up some colours either too light or much too dark. Usually I just delete the pics that are off, but this time I wanted to show how much the camera's light setting/picking up of light can influence how the colour is represented (upper left and lower right below).

 

By the way: Aben was written with the Zoom nib in a normal writing position, while the fine lines of dius ( are written with the back of the nib tipping on the upper side of the nib (pen turned around) = reverse writing.

 

 

This specific tone is just a tad too much ___ and at the same time too little ___. I don't even know what it is I am missing. On the more creamy paper it is too much of a burnt orange tone but without the amazing muddiness of such inks (Diamine Inkvent 2019's Fire Embers or Graf von Faber-Castell Burned Orange would be great examples). On the other hand it is not subtle enough to count as subdues or elegant. This ink is like a bag of chips that are edible, but somehow they are stale and just meh. (Usually I am a very happy-go-lucky liking everything kinda person.)

 

 

How do you like yours? I'd be glad to hear others loving their Peach Punch and certainly do not like to complain about inks. 😶

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm enjoying this vicariously!  Thanks, @JulieParadise!