This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 12 door:
Day 12’s ink is Diamine Bah Humbug. It’s a chameleon ink.
I think this is one of the darkest chameleon inks we’ve seen from Diamine. Bah Humbug’s base ink colour is a deep, dark wine red, very saturated. The chameleon shimmer brings light and interest into it — pink, gold, red glitter flash in its depths, making this a very attractive red ink.
This is the perfect ink for use on cream or off-white paper, and an excellent choice for greeting cards or present labels. It’s very saturated so there’s very little shading.
The bear I sketched this time is a replica of a 1907 bear. I decided to give it a more caricature like treatment. You can see some of the chameleon shimmer on the page here, particularly in his bow:
From a different angle you can see more of the chameleon shimmer, particularly in the eyes and the bow:
And here’s Bully Bear Minor himself:
I love the name Diamine chose for this ink. Do you have any favourite holiday themed inks with clever names in your collection?
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Larouquine
For the names, my personal preference is not to have them restricted to a single season especially if it’s a color I might use year-round. So glacier is fine with me because it’s a winter color as well as a winter name, but if I called this thing Bah Humbug I’d only use it from December 1st-25th each year. Maybe not even then, since my enthusiasm for the “holiday season” is fairly limited. My friend and I have renamed Humbug: we call it Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? because aside from the shimmer it looks quite like the purple-red colored ink Virginia Woolf penned her manuscripts in. I’m actually loving the fact that Diamine has restricted the number of Christmas-specific names in the calendar, but I get that there are different tastes and some people are delighted by them. And I can always come up with a different name and slap a new label on a bottle I like if it comes with a name like Jingle Berry or Bah Humbug.
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Jean Wilcox
I always start each day’s ink evaluation by taking a brush and putting a swatch of in on the appropriate calendar day. When I did that with “Bah Humbug” I literally gasped with delight. I absolutely love this ink — the depth of color, the sheen, and the pretty reflective colors after you’ve written with it. It may change my mind about shimmer inks. I plan to write all my holiday greetings with it … whatever holiday!
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