For this year’s Inkmas posts, I wanted to draw a little bit to commemorate the season. Today’s ink is a gorgeous plummy purple from the Kala Nostalgia Gemstone series, Star Garnet (30mL for $11.50). While the swatch on Jetpens showed it as a dusty purple, mine definitely had a bit more plum in darker applications.…
I promise that not all of Inkmas will not large ink collection reviews but, honestly, if you pooled up all the inks owned between Jesi, Jaclyn and myself, I think we could fill a swimming pool. My goal with Inkmas is to share few of the inks I’ve collected this year. Clearly, the pandemic has…
To start this year’s annual Inkmas tradition, it was so hard to choose just one ink. So, I decided to feature four of the new inks from Vinta. I’m also mixing up how I do my reviews. I started these on my standard Rhodia testing pad but the inks kept feathering and bleeding and I…
By Jessica Coles Sailor Studio inks are a collection from Sailor covering 100 ink mixtures from pastel, multi-chromatic to saturated and highly sheening. Over the summer, Sailor announced that they would be retiring three inks from the lineup (543, 531, 864) and adding another three inks – 224, 252, and 280. The first number of…
By Jessica Coles Sailor started releasing a new lineup – the 50 States collection – early in 2019 with California and Colorado inks. Recently New York and Texas followed. I was surprised when Virginia and Illinois joined the set so quickly with only about 2 months between releases. Thank you to Dromgoole’s for sending over…
By Jessica Coles Earlier in October, I kicked off the first review of a new ink line (at least to the Well-Appointed Desk group!), Van Dieman’s. These inks come from far away Australia with colors that are inspired by various aspects of the region. There are so many inks from Van Dieman’s! Ana and I…
By Jessica Coles Van Dieman’s ink line. Wow. Australia seems to have some amazing inks recently and Van Dieman’s is no exception. One thing I have noticed about these Australian ink makers is the huge number of inks they create, so I have been forced to believe that Australia is just a more colorful place…
