I received some new (to me) inks for Robert Oster recently. Some have been around for a few months now and some are relatively new and I felt that six of them made for a pretty nice palette of colours. They were all somewhat pastel-like and soft. From left to right there is Vitstyle Red Bear (an exclusive ink to Hong Kong based store Vitstyle), Tangerine, Hippo Purple (an ink made for squishy ink's Kickstarter for her Hippo Noto notebook), Plumb Nut, Australian Opal Mauve, and Cherry Blossom. I hope to do more palette's later down the road.
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Sailor Pens and Inks Facebook Group
Sailor inks have been my favourite inks for a while now. They frequently satisfy the characteristics of inks that I appreciate but are also very collectable. They have limited edition pens and inks as well as difficult to acquire Store Exclusive inks. This makes hunting down and collecting their inks fun (and pricy) but much of the information on the inks is non-existent or very limited, difficult to search for or not in English (which is understandable). I have created a Facebook Group to help fill this gap.
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Signature Ink River of Fire
in Ink Review
While Robert Oster Signature Ink's Fire & Ice isn't going to go anywhere, River of Fire hopes to be the successor to Fire & Ice's crown. Like Fire & Ice, River of Fire has a great name and a border of sheen. The ink colour itself was created based on the colour of Rob's boyhood local river green (though I assume that river wasn't made of fire!)
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