Tag Archives: visconti

leaning towards red – 15 inks

Posted on 1 June 2010 by lady dandelion

This started as a red-only colour chart, since I haven’t done that before, but as I made the colour samples I felt I wanted some reference colours, so I added yellow, orange, cerise/pink, purple and a dark blue as references and … Continue reading →

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review of J Herbin 1670 anniversary ink – iron oxide is the way to go

Posted on 1 April 2010 by lady dandelion

The cap is covered in real, red lacquer – that according to penandco is applied by hand. I was lucky and managed to open and close it without cracking all the  lovely red lacquer. Click on photos to view them … Continue reading →

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