Diamine Autumn Oak
• Colour: Autumn Oak is a positively gorgeous orange with one of the most fitting names I’ve ever seen.
• Special attributes: There is a great amount of shading to this ink. It is superbly water soluble which is great for artwork. No shimmer, no sheen.
• Harkens to mind the deep orange of autumn; decor of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
• Similar to: It’s a more yellow version of Diamine’s Ancient Copper.
• Expense: Very affordable in the UK (~£2.25/30ml); pricier but still affordable in the US (~$7.50/30ml)
• Example: This colour (and all shades of yellow-brown and orange) felt like a perfect colour for George Harrison.
The ink isn’t quite dark enough to fully cover my pencil marks when water is added, there is some gorgeous shading before before and after using the water brush.
Wow, what an amazing George Harrison! Gorgeous! I have Autumn Oak on my list of inks to buy, but I keep hearing it’s kind of dry (?) But, then I’ll hear it isn’t. So, I’m on the fence, and I don’t know whether to try it or not. Does its seem dry to you? (For a flex pen.)
Well thank you, you’re too kind! It just felt like a George sort of orange. As far as the wetness, I have used this one in some Pilot Plumix stubs; in a vintage Waltman (medium nib); and a Pilot Retro Pop Stub. In those it has flowed perfectly. However, I don’t think it’d be suited well for flex. I did think to try it in perhaps a Noodler’s Ahab, since those tend to really spill the ink fast, but I don’t have an empty one yet. I too have seen that it can lead to some railroading with the flexy nibs. But the colour is so gorgeous that I bought one of the big 80ml bottles of it. It’s also great for painting. So I’d recommend it, just not for everything.