Hi, my dearies! I hope Springtime, now that it’s finally here, is treating you kindly. Here it’s been the delight of having greenery all around again, and fighting off the outdoor critters who want to snack on my baby plants. Ah well, it’s still so worth it. I’ve been craving some spinning with my wheel on the front porch, enjoying the breezes and hoping the neighbor’s cat comes over for a head-scritch. As Spring goes, this is a good one so far…
But I have a fun ramble to ramble about, really. Recently my husband had given me a few inks to play with, and I discovered just how very, very good Ferriswheel Press Inks are. They’re based in Canada, and they have astoundingly beautiful inks and pens to play with, whether you’re a writer, a painter, or like to do a little bit of both at the same time. The colors I got were just so luminescent, so flexible and easy to use. And they come out with new colors every season, each one more beautiful than the last. Having a few bottles of different inks to play with, in their lovely bottles, feels like the pinnacle of decadence.
The mermaid I’m showing off here was done with only one ink color; “Glistening Glass”. It was amazing to watch the shifts in color and tint, while using a pen, or a brush, or adding a bit of water, or adding a drop of ink to a wet sheet of paper to watch the colors bloom.
For even more fun, I played with “Cloak and Forest”, which is a deep green ink with a red shiny bloom, and it was so very, very satisfying for forest leaves. And it showed up so beautifully with the red cloak on my Red Riding Hood…
If you have the opportunity and don’t mind spending a little extra money, definitely get a hold of a bottle of these fine inks. They really made all the difference in my more recent drawings, and I think you’ll find them so satisfying to write or draw with!
(I’m not being compensated, by the way. They’re just that glorious. And if you’re not into painting, no worries! I’ll just keep on playing with them myself and showing you all the results.)
Ever loving, your inky fingered Maus…