Ink Review: Diamine Gerbera (Flowers Gift Set)

[Chrissy]

My latest ink is Diamine Gerbera from the Flowers Set. I decided I should try to complete reviewing the Flower set inks, as I have reviewed all of the Music set inks. I find the Flowers set consists of brightly coloured inks whereas the Music set are more muted. So maybe I'm not always in the mood to write with brightly coloured inks.

I decided to use Diamine Pumpkin, Caran d'Ache Infra Red and Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki as my comparison inks this time. Gerbera is a pinkish orangey shade, Pumpkin is bright orange, Caran d'Ache Infra Red is a pinkish scarlet red, and Pilot iroshizuku Fuyu-gakei is a salmon colour, unfortunately one that didn't come out as well on my scan as the others.

I cleaned out and refilled my orange Lamy Nexx M with it's 1.1mm nib for Gerbera, but I immediately found the ink dryer than Pumpkin. It didn't glisten and flow along the line while I was writing as Pumpkin did, and I felt like I had to work a little harder to write than I had with that orange ink. I was quite surprised at the difference. Maybe it needs a wetter pen? It's a nice colour though. Not saturated. I know some like less saturated inks. It's certainly easier on the eye than Pumpkin. It also has some rather nice shading.

• Although this isn't a waterproof ink, it shows a little water resistance for a relatively unsaturated ink.
• Bearing in mind the paper I use is thick with a shiny surface, and I used a 1.1 stub nib, this ink took 16-18 secs to dry.
• I found this ink a bit on the dry side in this particular pen. However, I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.
• It is currently available in 30ml glass bottles within the Flowers gift set, or in 30ml plastic refill bottles from Diamine.
• Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.

[visvamitra]

I like this one.

[lgsoltek]

I like it too.

[Chrissy]

I prefer this colour to the really bright shade of Pumpkin.

 

I wish I could persuade my scanner that the paper is white. It's a nuisance to always have to change the background in Photoshop.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review. I still have this and three of the other Flower Collection inks to try, and this was just a reminder.

I'm not normally a fan of orange inks, but this does have really nice shading.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jasonchickerson]

Very nice. I like the color range between the three passes with the q-tip. I'm a sucker for these less saturated colors.