 We love when new inks arrive and we've been waiting for these for a while. These came all the way from Australia This is a whole new ink collection from Van Diemens This is the Van Diemens birds of a feather ink collection and they're 30 milliliter inks and there's 18 different inks The first one is the European honeybee eater nape ink, and it's the deep burgundy there at the top and the next we have the European honeybee eater wing ink and that is a an interesting color of green I Love that it has the true green color But once it dries you'll see a little bit of mint comes out in that ink, and it's very interesting and cool This next ink is European honeybee eater chin ink and this ink reminds me a little bit of the Monte Grappa Harry Potter Hufflepuff ink Except that it Seems to have more of a pure yellow to me We decided it leans a little bit towards orange once it's dry You'll be able to see it and it is it comes off very mango And then next we're jumping straight over to the European honeybee eater breast ink, and this is a teal color all the inks in this ink collection are inspired by birds native to Australia where Van Diemens is located and I really love seeing the four colors Inspired by the European honeybee eater bird because they're so different. I love that I want to see that bird with all those four colors. Okay, and I'm jumping in the first elegant peacock eye just went down and that was a really deep deep blue and then next we're looking at the elegant peacock train and that's a shimmery green and it's a pretty I want to say wicked green for some reason I think I'm thinking of the wicked witch, but it's a very bright vivid green with a gold shimmer And then next we have the elegant peacock neck and that one has some cool sheening effects that you'll see once it's dry And then this next one is a veering towards another bird. This is Anna's hummingbird wing And it is really beautiful. I'll come back and show you that once it's dry it tries with a really beautiful shimmer and then we have Anna's hummingbird face, which is a Really pretty fuchsia and it tries with a pretty cool sheen that we'll look at once it's settled in Okay, now we're going to move on to Inks inspired by the Mandarin duck. This first one is Mandarin duck breast and it goes down here as a Really solid blue color, but it dries pretty different. So we'll come back and look at that. This next one is Mandarin duck wing And I like the mixture of colors. It's kind of presenting here initially And We're using the J. Herbin glass spiral dip pin In case you're interested in that and then just we're using some random craft brushes to put the thick lines down Okay, next we're looking at Mandarin duck nape and this one is a much darker like a turquoise green and It's got some really cool shading that goes on once You're actually already seeing it as it's drying Next we'll look at the laughing cuckaburra wing Just the most fun to say and this is the One of the lighter inks in this set and I really like it. It's a kind of like it reminds me of crystal clear Sea water and underneath that we have laughing cuckaburra crest followed right after by the laughing cuckaburra tail and the laughing cuckaburra crest and tail inks Once they're dry, they look pretty similar except that the crest has a bit of violet going on while the tail has a more of a brown base Under that neath that we're gonna look at blue J wing Followed by blue J tail and then blue J crown and these three blue J blue inks are so lovely And I love that they're all three blue but they're all so different and here's a look at all of these inks Once they were dry and you'll see some of them really have some great shading and you also have some sheen and some shimmer shop birds of a feather at pinchley.com