Colorvent 2024 - Day 11 - DaVinci Glow - Jim P.’s Fountain Pen and Ink Nonsense

Colorverse Colorvent 2024 Day 11 is "DaVinci Glow", a blue-gray dual-shading ink.

It shades in blue and gray separately, which is neat. Overall the ink is blue-gray but looking in the shading you can see distinct areas of only blue and only gray.

In smaller nibs it's a bit too light, in larger nibs it's very wet, so it needs specific pen and paper combos, but in the right conditions it's nice.

Pen is a WingSung 698 with an EF nib

Photo of a "Colorverse Colorspace Size C" swatch card, type 1 which is based on the James Webb space telescope. The ink on the card is light blue-gray with some areas that are darker, and in the dark areas it is blue in places and dark gray in others. It is more blue near the edges and more gray in some areas with lots of ink. Upper left is text reading "#11 DaVinci Glow" written in an EF nib and then a stub nib. Below the text are multiple stars and a galaxy outlined in ink. Upper right is a large illustration of the James Webb telescope in negative space among swabbed ink. In the lower left is a small illustration of the Hubble space telescope in scribbled ink. In the middle lower left is a blob of ink with some visible areas where it dried darker. There are lines of gray in the center and a ring of blue around the outside. In the middle right is a blob of swirled ink drawn by a glass dip pen. Lower right is text "Colorvent 2024". Laying across the card is a fountain pen, a transparent WingSung 698 with silver accents.

Collage of six photos of text on paper. Each photo consists of: - "DaVinci Glow" written with an EF nib - "DaVinci Glow" written with a stub nib - A swirl of ink made with a glass dip pen The ink color is the same for all: A light blue-gray with some areas that are darker, and in the dark areas it is blue in places and dark gray in others. It is more blue near the edges and more gray in some areas with lots of ink. From the top left, the papers are: - Maruman Mnemosyne - Clairefontaine Triomphe - Paperage Notebook - Iroful Notebook - Midori MD Notebook - Tomoe River S Kanso

Photo of ink blob on paper under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. There are both blue and dark gray areas in the blob, with some paper fibers being very dark gray, and some lighter areas being almost completely light blue.

Photo of ink writing on paper under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. No specific letters can be made out. There are both blue and dark gray areas in the lines, with some paper fibers being very dark gray, and some lighter areas being almost completely light blue. The edges of lines are darker blue.

Usually watching paint dry is boring, but not this ink. This is ~45 seconds of DaVinci Glow drying and you can see the different colors separating and settling.