30 Inks, 30 Days: Recap
(Decided to fix the title here after all this time, since most people say “30 inks, 30 days”, not the other way around. 😅)
I got a bit carried away with the folded nib pen and the Purple Yam swatch: there is some overspray that hit the poor Fog Grey swatch! I might’ve also caused a bit of the Abalone swatch to overspray also.😅
The Inks
I decided to do a quick recap for the 30 inks project and see which inks were my favorites. As you can see above, I selected 8:
Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux
De Atramentis Document Fog Grey
Troublemaker Purple Yam
Sailor Yurameku Date Gokoro
Herbin Vert de Gris
Troublemaker Abalone
Herbin Larmes de Cassis
Jacques Herbin Ambre de Baltique
A fair amount of purples and blues, but some other colors were sprinkled in.
The Quotes
While every quote and snippet was relatable and meaningful to me, and make a great narrative seeing them all together, I did select some favorite quotes/snippets:
[Note: if the text isn’t in quotes, it’s a snippet of text written by Austin Kleon, from either Steal Like an Artist or Show Your Work. Otherwise, the quotes were ones Austin included in those books.]
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” - Jessica Hische
[This is my top favorite.]“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it.” - Dave Grohl
[This was my most-liked post on IG, likely because it has swearing in it, and I added #DaveGrohl to the list of tags, which probably surfaced it to people outside of the fountain pen community.]“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.” - Derek Sivers
Below is a flip-through of the finished project, complete with lots of ASMR-y, crinkly paper noises!
Which inks and quotes or snippets did you all like the most? Do you have any inks that you think I should check out, based on my favorites above, or the others featured in the series? Feel free to comment here (I might miss them when you first post, as Squarespace isn’t the best at notifying), or ping me on Mastodon. Thanks!
Previous days:
Day 30, Day 29, Day 28, Day 27, Day 26, Day 25, Day 24, Day 23, Day 22, Day 21, Day 20, Day 19, Day 18, Day 17, Day 16, Day 15, Day 14, Day 13, Day 12, Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1
