Endless Alchemy Mystic Forest is one of the few greens I have and I rather like it. It's a nice dark green, sort of hunter green adjacent with just a hint of coppery sheen. This one is very well-behaved and I haven't had any issues with it in any pen I've used it with over the past year.

The only downside is that sometimes it's a little too dark on a page and it's hard to tell it's green.

I have mixed feelings about Endless Alchemy Candy Sea. It looks great, but it's not very unique (lots of blue+heavy red sheen inks out there) and it sometimes has drying issues. Like I swatched this a week ago and parts are still tacky. On top of that, it has a tendency to dry out pens faster than usual and gum things up, so hard starts and so on.

But all of that is worth the trouble since it looks nice on the page.

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Diamine Upon A Star

This is from the 2022 Inkvent and is a dark blue with "chameleon" shimmer, Diamine's version of multi-colored holographic shimmer.

It's a very fun ink and might get some more heavy use around Christmas (:

So yesterday I took my mum to the dentist and waited in the park while she had her procedures. She's fine by the way. Anyway, I went for a walk around the lake. It is Lake Jualbap and it's quite good for birds and shelter if it rains which it did, I sat down at a picnic table which had a shelter and started to draw on the little complimentary notepad that Pelikan gave us at the Pelikan hub.

I had my Pilot Diplomat loaded with one of the Inkvent inks from Diamine which is called Grotto. It is one of the ink vent inks that I got recently but have not used much. I also had my Conklin pen filled with the lovely Cosmic glow from the Inkvent inks. So I started drawing a serpentine dragon to play with the inks and fill in some time. The diamond looks like a rusty brown but has a greeny gold sheen in the light.

There were a couple of mothers at the park with their children having a playdate and soon I was surrounded by very interested intelligent 6-year-olds who were thrilled to see someone drawing and interested in the ink and everything. The mothers admired my patience with them but I said I know that when I go home they won't be there. I admired them because they don't get to escape. The children were so enthusiastic. It was quite heartening to see them enjoying someone not using a computer to make an image. They were very thrilled and we all had a great time.

I've just put the finishing touches to it and here it is for everyone to enjoy.

The launch deal Kickstarter tier for the Endless Phantom came with a free 45ml bottle of ink, so I opted for Molten Bronze since I don't have any browns.

It's pretty nice, some shading and though it doesn't really sheen there is some green that comes through if enough ink goes down. Very "earthy". Chromatography has a lot going on, too, as does the microscope image.

In an EF nib it's mostly just a nice medium brown. All good to me!

Finally swatching fountain pen inks, they look good like this

(they're way more saturated on the image compared than in reality)

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Colorverse Witch by Starlight

It's witchy and shiny. Enough said.

I like the contrast between the darker and lighter parts of the stroke-- it's not only shading but level of shimmer. A nice effect. And I like the lighter color a lot, it really does deliver on the "starlight" night idea.