Graphite Fine Art
This is a lovely greenish shade of blue. As is common with most Private Reserve inks it’s very saturated. Dry times aren’t horrific but aren’t exactly lightning fast either. Here I am doodling the Inkling. This sample was sent to me by Paul Joynes – thank you Paul! Paul’s fairly new site, Gorgeous.INK, is fast…
This is a lovely purple ink, named after a flower, it turns out. (You probably knew this already but I didn’t.) Here I am doodling the Inkling.
I’ve seen some reviews of this ink that have been less than positive but I quite like it. It needs a broader nib to bring out the best of it (as do many J. Herbin inks) but, as its name suggests, this is a very stately green. Here I am doodling the Inkling. You can…
This ink crept up on me. When I first tried it out I thought it was rather pleasant but after a while I realised it’s a really very unusual and beautiful shade of red. Here I am doodling the Inkling. Many thanks to Chris Stafford for sending me this sample.
Ed Jelley described this ink as kind of like burnt oil, pond scum, spa mud, [and] garbage water and it’s hard to disagree. It’s a mucky kind of green but has a charm all of its own. Here I am doodling the Inkling. You can find some more reviews of Diamine Salamander on Pennaquod.