Dromgoole’s collaborated with Diamine to create two inks: Bleu Horse and Medusa’s Gaze ($24). They are both shimmery jewels but I decided to grab a bottle of Medusa’s Gaze to start because I liked the name. I buy nail polish with the same logic. The shimmer particles can be seen in the bottom of the…
For the last few years, Sailor North America releases a limited edition ink available exclusively at pen shows where the Sailor North America team is attending. We have tried to review these colors as we acquire them. 2024 2023 This year, the color chosen is a low saturation smoky bluish color with a multichromatic undertone…
I don’t know why I waited so longer to pick up the Sailor x Dromgoole’s collaborative inks: Mint Jelly and Apricot Jam ($20 each for 20ml bottles). These were released last year around the holidays inspired by Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner accompaniments. At the last pen show, I grabbed bottles of both and have fallen…
(If at any point in this review, I accidentally call this ink Forgotten Iced Tea, I apologize in advance. The color reminds me more of iced tea than iced coffee so I have it in my brain that that’s what its called.) Along with the release of the much-coveted Esterbrook Estie collab with TheCoffeeMonstersCo, Esterbrook…
Monday I reviewed the Ink Archiving Books from Dominant Industry and today, I have the inks that were released to compliment the collections. For each collection, there were two inks released. For the Log of Atlantis the two inks were Atlantis (shimmer) and Seaweed (standard). For The Log of Elixir the inks are both standard…
While I was in Houston, I grabbed the Little Craft Fest exclusive ink colors from Dominant Industry. The irony was that the first day of the show, they did not have swatches of the colors to show so I went back the second day and someone had swatched them. One of the bottles in clearly…
I really wanted to title this post “EUREKA – I found it!,” but I understand that’s not the best for anyone to find it later, so I went with our traditional headline. But I’m here to say I think I found an ink that is an amazing match for the Pantone color of the year,…
