Diamine Inkvent (Red edition) Calendar 2021

[essayfaire]

1 hour ago, JulieParadise said:

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. 😶

I just don't understand how Peach Punch in a Christmas ink.  Eggnog: yes.  Cider: yes.  Cocoa:yes.  But peach?

[DrDebG]

"Meh" is a good word for this ink.  When I sampled it (of course mine has only resided in the pen since this morning), I just found it to be uninspiring, which is sad.  This could be dazzling, if it shaded more, or haloed more, or . . . more. 

[JulieParadise]

Party Time! Although this ink was in our beloved Diamine Inkvent Calendar two days ago already, I'd still like to show my impressions of it:
 

 

Party Time is a vivid (not garish!) bright pink with a silvery-blueish shimmer. I have it in a Sailor Pro Gear Slim Mini Beni White with a 14 k Zoom nib since Nov 20/21, and until now I did not encounter any clogging or hard starts. So: Glitter ink does not destroy your pen! 😉
 

 

[JulieParadise]

Yesterday's ink is called Stargazer, a very (very!) saturated shimmery sheener, so miúch, that it did cause the wet Pelikan M400 Green stripes with a generous stub/italic medium nib to start skipping on the first moment of the strokes. It did write, though not when starting the stroke, which is something I usually do not encounter with this nib.
 

This ink is so dense that with a wet pen it almost impossible to even recognize the base colour, so you have to refer to the dry parts of the writing or the parts of the ink splashes where there is less ink on the paper.
 

As a second pen I used a Pilot Parallel Pen with a custom cut "blade nib" which produces the fun splatters you see on the upper right pic above.
 

 

 

Papers were a lined A6 Life Vermilion cahier and a Midori MD 2021 Diary (the last few pages are blank). 

As always it is a bit difficult to capture sheen. 

 

All in all this ink might be exciting, but I find these sheeners more and more impractical, besides their smearing I also dislike the draggy feel the thick ink causes in many pens.

[JulieParadise]

After all this complaining about the inks in Diamine's Inkvent Calendar so far today's ink is one that I fully enjoy. Although being described as a sheener (and it does sheen) Ruby Blues is a beautiful vivid blue with some (not too much) reddish sheen. one is I do like the inks so far in general, but not every ink can be a favourite and when there are inks that really excite me, the less exciting or more impractical ones fall behind. 🤗

 

It is a vivid blue that works well in the Moonman f9 with a fine italic nib I used.
 

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

As you can see, I only seemed to be able to capture the more subtle sheen under artificial light (above on the upper right pic, below on the lower left):

 

I really enjoy this blue and look forward to using it up in this pen or another one of my "writing" pens, those that I use primarily for longer writing instead of doodling, note taking or playing around.

[mizgeorge]

Can I just say how much I'm enjoying these! I very nearly didn't buy this year's calendar as the samples I'd seen didn't look that exciting, but this has really brought them to life and I actually think I like far more of them than I did last time round. Eventually, I may even get round to opening mine...

[JulieParadise]

Red Robin is the fourteenth ink in Diamine's 2021 Inkvent Calendar, a deep burnt orange that manages to be muddy and bright at the same time. It does fall into that orangy brown territory of a foxy red that is hard to pinpoint. 
 

 

In a wetter pen than my already generous Moonman f9 with a round fine nib you may get a dark halo on the edge of the writing lines as seen above on the detail shot of "Red", taken from the top of the blank page (a Midori MD 2021 Diary, its last few pages are blank) and written with a dipped glass pen. All other writing was done with the coral Moonman f9.
 

 

On the lined paper of a Life Vermilion cahier the colour appears a tad warmer and deeper, also in the punched out piece of paper on the bottle. 
 

Overall I like this ink, as it is a somewhat weird ink, but still perfectly usable. As stated above, I find it fascinating that Red Robin seems a bit murky, "burnt", and bright at the same time, so the name is very fitting: alluding to a robin's throat, namely a European robin or robin redbreast.
 

[DrDebG]

Very nice overview of the ink!  Thank you for all the time and effort you are taking with these.  

[AmandaW]

Ash is still the best.

[JulieParadise]

Today's ink is called Night Shade, a standard with a non-standard colour, as this is a very pale and subtly changing ink leaning towards purple-pink.
 

The first two lines in the Midori MD Diary 2021 (its last pages are blank) were written with the glass pen you see on the photo, the rest was written with the vintage Franken-pen Montblanc 146 and its generous italic medium/broad nib.
 

I really like Night Shade's tender colour and the nice shading, which is visible but not overwhelming. As most of my pens are on the wet side, light inks still come out thick enough to be usable.
 

This might be one of the few inks that I'd buy from this year's calendar, should Diamine make them available in their regular line-up like the inks from the 2019 Blue Edition.

[inkstainedruth]

That one looks interesting.  It also looks like it would be a contender in the thread trying to pick inks that match the Pantone 2022 Color of the Year....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[essayfaire]

21 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

That one looks interesting.  It also looks like it would be a contender in the thread trying to pick inks that match the Pantone 2022 Color of the Year....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I thought this year there were a number of upstarts who were disagreeing with Pantone:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pantone-picks-a-color-of-the-year-so-does-everybody-else-11639068306?st=wnaiev59g2ge54f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[A Smug Dill]

I fell a few days behind, and only just caught up today inking up three pens in one session. I must say I really, really like Night Shade, even where it doesn't exhibit the colour-shifting to lavender. It's the kinda ink colour I hoped Robert Oster Sydney Lavender would be!

[DrDebG]

Of all of the Inkvent inks, Night Shade is by far my favorite.  I love the shading.  Sheen and Shimmer are nice, but shading and color are what won me over.  

[AmandaW]

OK, make that two: Ash and Night Shade.

[Intensity]

Adding Nightshade to a wish list for when hopefully large size bottles will become available.

[JulieParadise]

Public Service Announcement: Diamine Inkvent 2021 Red Ed. No. 15 Night Shade is a weirdly beautiful ink!
 

Rohrer & Klingner Isatis tinctoria (upper right)

Diamine Inkvent Red Ed. Night Shade (centre, splashes above & below writing)
Sailor Ink Studio No. 123 (lower left)

Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi (lower right)
 

Writing was done with a dipped glass nib, paper is old white Tomoe River 52 g/m² (bought before 2017).

[JulieParadise]

Today's ink is named Vintage Copper, a warm reddish shimmer ink.
 

 

I have this ink in a vintage Monte Rosa 042 pen with a generous medium to broad stub.
 

The second pen I use is a Pilot Parallel Pen 3.8 mm.
 

The ink sits in both pens since Nov. 20/21, and so far I did not encounter any hard starts or clogging.

The last collage shows a comparison between the impression you get when looking at the writing from an angle that does not show/shows the glitter. The upper two pics' writing was done with the Monte Rosa, the lines in the lower pics are written with the edge of the Parallel Pen's nib.

 

 

[essayfaire]

Somehow, even though we're in the midst of a pandemic, we have fallen behind in our Advent Calendar openings. I'm so grateful that @JulieParadiseat least keeps me apprised of what I'm missing!

[inkstainedruth]

On 12/15/2021 at 9:29 PM, essayfaire said:

I thought this year there were a number of upstarts who were disagreeing with Pantone:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pantone-picks-a-color-of-the-year-so-does-everybody-else-11639068306?st=wnaiev59g2ge54f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Interesting article.  Of course the advantage of Pantone over some of the other companies is that they've standardized things (at least from the point of view of the print industry) -- if you pick Pantone color X for your ad's headline, you know that whatever magazine the ad is going to run in will be THAT color, because the printers know how to blend the four basic inks to get that color.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth