Robert Oster Crystal Marine
- Colour: Teal with red sheen and blue shimmer.
- Special Attributes:
- Shade: Yes, a lovely amount.
- Sheen: Red sheen.
- Shimmer: Blue shimmer.
- Watercolour Usage: Using water didn’t fade out the first drawn lines, but it did make a nice sky blue colour come out.
- Harkens to Mind: My hair during my wedding, the ocean when viewed from an airplane, fog over the ocean being burnt out by the sun.
- Similar to: It’s one of the greener of the teals, but it is still not as green as Soft Mint by Diamine.
- Expense: $26/50ml as of 2022.
- Example: Unknown Victorian lady with a great scarf.
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Verdict
Sometimes it’s green, sometimes it’s blue (it’s the magic of the shimmer, I think), but I like it. I had it in a Lamy Safari for a long while and it does gunk up the nib after a while, so that’s a downer, but what can you do? I sometimes think about buying a big bottle of this ink, so it’s almost got me hooked. I think the red sheen is what stops me.