Welcome to Day 1 of our annual “12 Days of Inkmas”! Laura is going to start the season with an appropriately celebratory red ink from Korean ink maker 3 Oysters. Stay tuned for more inks as Inkmas progresses. Happy Inkmas! — Ana Review by Laura Cameron It wouldn’t be Inkmas if we didn’t kick off…
Review by Laura Cameron Pilot Iroshizuku Ina-ho is the final bottle of ink that I purchased from Jesi at the St. Louis Pen Show (backed up much?). I was very intrigued by this one since Ina-ho translate to “rice ear.” Ina-ho is a brown gold color, named as such after the fields of rice ears…
Review by Jessica Coles Have you ever seen someone who has absolutely found their niche in life? Sean Connery? He was absolutely meant to be an actor. Billy Joel? Piano entertainer. It’s a pleasure to see them at their work because it seems to be a natural extension of themselves. Sometimes I wonder if Robert Oster…
Ana just got her hands on some of the newest Birmingham Pen Company inks. And she thought it would be hysterical to hand me ALL the purples. So without further ado, I present to you PURPLEPALOOZA! Birmingham Pen Company does amazing inks, and their newest colors include a ton of purples. From ashy eggplant to…
Review by Laura Cameron I don’t have a lot of browns in my ink collection, and I’m still working through the motherlode that I purchased from Jesi at the St. Louis Pen Show. So today I’ll talk about Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi ($9.90 for 15ml). Tsukushi, or Horsetail Plant, is a nice medium brown with a…
Guest Review by Julia van der Wyk Intro and general comments Bungbox Happiness ($39 per 50ml bottle) ink was made to replicate the color of happiness, in the guise of a cheerful, yet unassuming green. Do we think they succeeded? Well, the bunny fox on the label is so happy it can’t even handle how happy…
Review by Laura Cameron I know I’m not the resident green expert here at The Desk, but when Jesi offered this bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Chiku-rin (15mL for $9.90) to me, I couldn’t resist it. Chiku-rin is a gorgeous green. I think of it as almost a lemongrass color, but Chiku-rin translates to bamboo forest. …
