{"product_id":"kittyinkpot-season-iv-resting-in-the-evening-breeze-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","title":"KittyInkpot Season IV Resting in the Evening Breeze - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHue:\u003c\/strong\u003e A warm peach-apricot that separates hard. The official description (Noetic Paper) calls it a peach ink with dark pink haloing and blue-yellow chromashading. My swatches match on the peach and the halo — the halo reads as a deep wine-magenta, verging on maroon where the ink pools heavily. Where mine diverge: the separation is much more green than the \"blue-yellow\" description suggests. My muddler swabs break to sage and a distinct teal-green in the centres, with olive-green micro-drops. In handwriting it lays down considerably paler than the swatch bar — a soft sandy tan rather than peach, with a faint olive cast in the thinner strokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShading:\u003c\/strong\u003e Extreme. This is a chromatic separation ink rather than a conventional shader — a single stroke can run from pale green through peach to wine at the edge. The dip-pen bar shows a green line running straight through the middle of a peach band with a dark pink border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheen:\u003c\/strong\u003e None observed in my swatches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShimmer:\u003c\/strong\u003e None.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlow: \u003c\/strong\u003eDry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe interesting bit: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is from Kitty Inkpot's Season IV, titled The Prologue of Seasons. The Chinese name on the bottle is 时间栖于晚风 — \"time resting in the evening breeze\". The verb 栖 is the one used for a bird settling onto a branch to roost for the night, so the name is closer to \"time perching in the evening breeze\" than simply resting in it. The label carries a dusk-sky photograph to match. Kitty Inkpot is a small independent ink studio in China (猫只瓶),and it has built its reputation almost entirely on this kind of aggressive chromatic separation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a hand-decanted 4ml sample vial from my own bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePhotos are my own swatches on Tomoe River Paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eI'm a collector and I'm always happy to talk ink, so please message me if you have any questions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitty Inkpot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57401874055494,"sku":null,"price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9696\/1862\/files\/KittyInkpot-restingintheeveningbreeze3.jpg?v=1789683936","url":"https:\/\/thepensmuggler.co.uk\/products\/kittyinkpot-season-iv-resting-in-the-evening-breeze-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","provider":"The Pen Smuggler","version":"1.0","type":"link"}