This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 2 door:

Day 2’s ink is Diamine Cashmere Rose. It’s a standard ink.

Cashmere Rose is a lovely, dusky shade of pink that makes you practically want to eat the words of the page. There’s something about it that is just calming and satisfying.

There’s a lot of interesting shading with this ink, even with a fine nibbed pen, and I have a feeling that this ink would look even better on cream coloured paper.

I didn’t think pink would make for a good sketching ink colour, but Cashmere Rose works for that too. The muted colour and the shading makes it work well for vintage style sketches.

This bear is one of my favourites, and it has a very unusual dual tone mohair setup. I bought it years ago at a Christmas fair in Berlin. The grandma that made him knew no English and I knew no German but we got along fabulously with hand gestures and miming. Such is the power of teddy bears — the love of them in universal.

Here is the original bear. Doesn’t he look happy?

Diamine has several great inks in muted pink/red colours and Cashmere Rose is a great addition to that lineup. I like this ink enough to consider buying a whole bottle of it. What do you think? Could you see yourself using Diamine Cashmere Rose?