This is the Diamine Inkvent 2024 day 1 door:
Day 1’s ink is Diamine Baltic Breeze a shimmer periwinkle blue ink:
The sample came out a bit rough because I tried to use a dip pen for the first few lines of writing.
Diamine Baltic Breeze is a gorgeous dusty, purplish blue in with a good amount of shading and a copper shimmer that really makes the ink come to life. This is a wet ink that will sheen if used in wide nibs.
On the Rhodia there was some feathering and a lot of show through and bleed through, but as I was using a wide 1.1 Monteverde nib, this is to be expected. On the Midori paper there was still some feathering, but you can also see the richness and depth of this ink.
Here’s a closeup on the shading, shimmer and sheen of this ink, and you can also see where it feathered a bit.
And here is the bear that I sketched, Topaz, made by Dean’s Bears and bought in York.
Diamine Baltic Breeze is a gorgeous ink that doesn’t score high on the practicality side. It’s a wet ink that is pretty saturated, so it takes a while to dry, and the shimmer, feathering and bleeding doesn’t help it in the every day use department. I won’t be getting a bottle of this, but I think that it’s a great ink for the calendar, as it fits thematically and is an attractive ink. Sometimes a sample is all that you need to enjoy an ink.
What do you think of Diamine Baltic Breeze? Do you see yourself buying a bottle?
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Esther Urwin
I really like the colour, but I agree with you. If doing Inkvent last year has told me something, it is that I am attracted to shimmer inks, but don’t like using them. I mostly find it annoying that the shimmer always settles very quickly, so it doesn’t usually come out in writing very much, and the constant shaking required is a pain. I have learnt that I prefer sheening inks to add interest to my writing. It also helps that those are safer for my vintage pens, which I prefer over my modern ones.
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writingatlarge
Oh, I completely agree. Shimmer inks go nowhere near my vintage pens. On my modern pens I find that I need to twirl them a bit before use to get the full effect of the shimmer.
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Jean K. Wilcox
I like your comment that it’s a “gorgeous ink that doesn’t score high on the practicality side”. Rather than filling a pen, I used a Speedball B6 dip pen and had occasional clumps of the glitter in my writing. And the pages felt very damp after I wrote. Pretty, but I wouldn’t buy it.
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writingatlarge
Exactly, this ink is wet and will likely mess up even the most fountain pen friendly paper.
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Jane K
thank you for your thorough review. I really like this ink and used it to write my Christmas cards in a LAMY all star with a broad nib. It really came out well and I could see the shimmer and it did not obscure the words!
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