Introducing eight inks from Backpack Ink, a small outfit that makes ink by hand in Colorado. Today it’s Amsterdam Orange!
Tomorrow we’ll come back to alphabetical order with eight inks from Backpack, but today it’s time for the only bottle of Colorverse that I own (remember I own many, many ~2ml samples of lots of things, it this year’s project is only bottles). Colorverse is a South Korean company, and they love their astronomy!
It’s really tough to rank these 25 inks, but here’s my best shot at it. I have pretty much loved them all. 25. Pompadour Cotinga Burgundy 24. Purple Gallinule Purple 23. Vampire Squid Red 22. Tolype Moth Warm 21. Spirula Green 20. Indigo Bunting Blue 19. American Goldfinch Yellow 18. Common Loon Black 17. Potomac
Pen companies and ink companies sometimes make pens and inks exclusively for sale at a particular pen show. My beloved Edison Comet is one of a limited numbered run of fifteen pens made by Brian and the terrific folks at Edison Pens in Huron, Ohio. Today’s ink was produced exclusively for the 2023 Washington DC
Sometimes you might be forgiven for thinking a viceroy is a monarch. They are smaller than monarchs, and are known as Müllerian mimics of the monarch, as they are distasteful to predators. It they’re also the last species to be represented by Anderillium inks. There’s one more limited edition ink tomorrow, it I hope you’ve
I wanted this ink to be more grey than brown, like its namesake, but it does come remarkably close to the subtle shading of this species. Common host plants are cherry, apple, plum, apricot, almond, birch, oak, beech, and citrus trees.
It’s pretty tough to draw this moth with only black and pink, as the species is entirely pink and yellow, so you’ll have to look this one up or use your imagination. This species can be found throughout eastern North America. It is a small moth that prefers (you guessed it) maple trees. It was
Another great color as we hit the home stretch for Anderillium. The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is the largest butterfly species in the world. It is also on the IUCN’s Endangered list, and is restricted to the forests of Oro Province in eastern Papua New Guinea.
I always think of a Luna Moth as yellow-green, and this ink seems more minty to me, so I’m struggling a bit with this one. But give it a different name, and it’s another lovely ink!
Not the male has any blue, and that limited to a shocking strip on each wing segment of an otherwise jet black butterfly of the tropical montaine forests. The ink is leaning towards turquoise, which is just fine by me.
Including a Calendar of Days, cocktails to celebrate throughout the year, and a avian journey of taxonomic discovery!
Socrates
The Choirmaster’s Pursuits 