30 Days, 30 Inks: Day 22
This color is hard to capture in a photograph. The original image showed the color as too pink, so I really had to mess around with colors in post (the hue/saturation/lightness sliders) to match the color IRL. I have to say I amazed myself at getting this end result. 😀
The Ink
Day 22: Herbin Larmes de Cassis
This is a new ink to me. I just got a small bottle of it a week or so ago when I ordered a bunch of stuff from Vanness to try to build out my collection of dusky inks, both for this project and in general. When you pick a theme of “dusky inks” it quickly becomes apparent that a lot of them are blue, purple, or green, so it gets kind of repetitive. I actually picked out a few ink candidates that were a variation on the color of Diamine Celadon Cat. And since I did pick Celadon Cat as one of the inks, I had to dump a couple of the others in the candidate list because I felt they were too similar. Anyway, I started branching out from those 3 shades and tried to find other dusky inks that may push the envelope of the definition. Herbin Larmes de Cassis may be one of those that you think, “hang on, is this dusky?” It is a relatively bright- looking color, especially compared to most of the other inks I featured previously, but there is a depth to the color that pushes it a bit closer to the dusky spectrum.
Anyway, violet is another color that I am mixed on. Obviously it has closeness to purple or berry colors that I like, but often violet can have lots of pink which, I’ve probably mentioned before, is not my color. When I first swatched this, the pinkness was showing through more, and I was kind of “meh” on that. But on Regalia paper it does lean more towards a bluer purple shade, which is nice. I’m even getting used to the pink/berry-leaning shade on this Traveler’s Company lightweight paper. I think I need to use this ink more to get used to it and potentially like it much better. It is a departure from my regular blues and purples, so that is a plus.
The Quote
“In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen.”
- Brené Brown
As a reminder, I switched to pulling quotes and snippets out of Austin Kleon’s next book, Show Your Work! It’s full of advice on how to share one’s creative work and get discovered. The previous book, Steal Like an Artist, was more generally about how to cultivate creativity and get inspired by all sorts of stuff and people around you. These are short books, so it wasn’t going to be feasible to limit myself to the first book for all 30 days. Anyway, that’s why these quotes shift towards putting your work out there and connecting with others.
I keep hearing about Brené Brown’s books and talks, but I haven’t actually read/seen any of them yet. Note to self to add this to my reading list.
I don’t think anyone who follows me online would think that I am hard to read, closed off, or anything like that. If anything, I’m an oversharer in many ways, and was before it became the norm on social media. /hipster
But I do find that sometimes I’d forget to show parts of my work behind the scenes (especially in my previous job) to let people know just how much effort it took, and what the thinking process was. I have done this in my recent blog posts, so some of you might be incredulous. 😅
This quote was in the chapter talking about how it’s important now to show off the act of working to create something, not just the end result. Through that, your audience can connect with you more closely, and feel more invested in your work. I think that I could’ve done more of this at my previous job to give people a sense of just how much went into the work that I did, and why my expertise was valuable. Involving others in the process could’ve gotten me more support for my work. Oh well, a lesson to apply to my next role, whenever I find it.
