Olive Octopus

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Lisa, she/her | Fountain pen enthusiast, ink obsessed, practicing watercolor, building Lego, front-end web dev https://oliveoctopus.ink

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Handmade A6 booklets made with twelve different fountain pen friendly papers and a medium brown cover, one side has 12 stained glass floral designs to color or paint, and the other side with labeled blank pages for writing tests.
Uncapped fountain pen, The Gentleman Stationer x Hinze Taschenstift pocket pen in purple CrazyFiber material called Violet Tendencies with dark gray purple metal section and pale lilac anodized nib, sitting on top of A5 notebook with writing sample of multiple purple inks, with the slightly gray purple Diamine Vivaldi ink featured in the center.
Eight 18ml frosted glass bottles with TWSBI fountain pen inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink. Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir, open to page with design of roses climbing up a wall and a window looking out to a castle on a cliff, a ship, and the sky filled with a crescent moon and stars, all painted with those 8 inks, and a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles with colorful inks in the wells.
Closeup of a notebook page with a rough sketch of Murderbot, the main character from All Systems Red by Martha Wells, with the quote "I love you, armor, and I'm never leaving you again.", all in red fountain pen ink (Diamine Red Robin).
The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir open to a page with sketches of birds and a scene of a garden with a large gazebo with trees behind and a pool of water in front with water lilies, a large tiered bird bath, several birds including a peacock, and a cat, all painted with 4 Dominant Industry inks. Next to the book are 3 bottles of fountain pen ink and a paint palette that looks like a cluster of bubbles with the remains of drops of ink. Inks used: Bog Sage (Scented, Top Note), a bright light blue Ylang Ylang (Scented, Middle Note), a bright yellow Duftrausch (Scented, Bottom Note), a muted gray pink Allegory (Standard), a dark indigo gray
A desk top full of ceramic and plastic ink palettes with the dregs of colorful fountain pen inks, several sheets of paper with colorfully painted ink ponies and flowers and an example of a letter with a colorful ink wash background. Other tools on the desk include water brushes and fountain pens.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir, open to a page featuring dragons, phoenixes, and ornate eggs painted with fountain pen inks in blues, greens, red, pink, and purple. Troublemaker inks: Sinulog Black Petrichor Moon River Diamine inks: Twilight Merlot Monaco Red
Interior of a stationery shop with dark green walls and warm wood shelves filled with inks, paper, notebooks, mugs, leather goods, pens, pencils, and accessories. A large table with chairs is in the back.
A hand-carved, rich blue sparkly resin fountain pen from D² Arts with a spiral carved around the pen from end to end.
An outdoor table with an oversize mug with the Relay logo, a manila envelope, small square purple envelope, Atlanta Pen Show badge for Lisa, aka OliveOctopus.Ink, green Newton fountain pen, orange Rickshaw Sinclair pen case, Rickshaw Inktopus Banzai bag.
A hand-sculpted fountain pen in dark blue resin with a long spiral carved from end to end, resting on a pen sleeve of dark gray batik fabric with a pattern of cream color horizontal and vertical lines, and a business card for D² Arts, Darrell Davis.
Magnolia Pen Company fountain pen in Saturn's Storm resin material by Pourly Controlled, a swirly pearl amd black with bolts of shimmery orange and pink, and thin metal bands of copper, brass, copper accents near both ends of the pen
A page in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book, A Log of Elixir, painted with fountain pen ink. The right page has several laboratory contraptions with glass tubes and vials and a cat peering into a large round glass, and the left page has six swatches and closeups of the items painted in monochrome, one for each ink used. Six Birmingham Pen Co inks were used: Ploughman's Pebble Saltmarsh Antique Sanguine Puce Lagoon Royal Prune Wilting Thicket
Photo of the corner of a room with the left wall painted a vibrant reddish purple with a closed closet door painted white, and the right wall painted a light orange with a window and curtains made of an orange and purple dyed batik fabric with a dotted pattern.
Tall ceramic mug with tea bags steeping, canister of Republic of Tea Dragon Oolong tea, and electric tea kettle heating water.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card and sketch of overalls for Taccia Powder Blue, a light periwinkle blue.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir, open to a painted page featuring suitcases, a pen and tool wrap, a book with a bandolier of potions, a canteen, an open suitcase with glass bottles, a book, and an upside-down orange cat inside, and a complex telescope tool. Eight Taccia fountain pen inks were used: Koiame (dark orange) Natane (yellow green) Sabimidori (dark teal, but very blue on this paper) Fukaki Hanada (light blue) Ainezu (dark blue gray) Aomurasaki (dark gray purple) Ume Murasaki (dusty mauve pink) Kurocha (dark brown)
Two boxes of fountain pen ink and Col-o-dex ink swatch cards for Colorverse The America's Dairy Land (Wisconsin), a light cheesey orange, with a sketch of a cow and a barn with an orange cheese sky, and Colorverse Tar Heel (North Carolina), a light blue gray, with a sketch of a foot with a dark patch on the heel and faded footprints in the background.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book: A Log of Atlantis opened to a painted page of crabs and sea stars, small glass jar of rinse water and glass stir sticks to be cleaned, ceramic paint palette with ink in the wells, sheet of paper with a blank pony outline, sheet of paper with a painted pony, Pentel water brush with fine tip, clean glass stir rod.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book: A Log of Atlantis open to a page with a starfish and crabs now painted in with a variety of colors, a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles filled with different colors of ink, and a waterbrush. Nine Dominant Industry inks were used: Duftrausch (scented gray pink/purple), Ylang Ylang (scented bright yellow), Bog Sage (scented light blue), Arizona Sky Crimson (mauve), Earl Gray Tea (bright orange), October Leaves (shimmer yellow brown), Dusk (dark periwinkle with shimmer), Sunset (pink and purple with pink shimmer), Winter Night (Dark Blue Gray with shimmer)
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book: A Log of Atlantis open to a page with a starfish and crabs, a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles, glass bottles of Dominant Industry fountain pen ink, a waterbrush.
A closed spiral bound notebook with a picture of the silhouette of someone looking up at an intensely starry sky, an Evoke notebook with Tomoe River Paper from Smruti Pens.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book (A Log of Atlantis version) page with a sketch of sea creatures including a lobster, cuttlefish, and several large, ancient sea creatures painted with fountain pen inks in shades of green, blue, yellow, brown, and purple. Inks used are: Lennon Tool Bar Wenshan Pouchong Tea, a dark gray green, Kobe Taiwan Alishan Green, a light dusty green, Sailor Mint Jelly, a light blue green, Colorverse Tar Heel, a medium blue, Ka-Ku Matchmaking of Money, a dark yellow, Lennon Tool Bar Sesame Oil, a medium yellow brown, Lennon Tool Bar Brown Sugar, a dark gray brown, Ink Mazeru M. Lovewell A Sweet Treat, Kobe Ginza Gold Sepia, a dark yellow-green brown, and Robert Oster California Pen Show 2025 Show Ink Golden Coast Amethyst, a dark purple with gold shimmer.
Coloring sheets with the outline of a prancing pony painted in with fountain pen ink in varied colors.
Open notebook on table outside in sunshine, writing and scribble tests with Sailor Manyo Uri ink using Kakimori Steel, Kakimori Brass, Colorverse Aluminum Shuttle, and Colorverse Brass Shuttle dip nibs. Next to the notebook are dip nibs in vials, sample vial of ink, glass dropper bottle of water, yellow nib holder and glass stir stick. There are also three Dominant Industry tea cup swatch cards filled out for Sailor Manyo Uri.
Morning sunrise from hotel room with partly cloudy sky and tall palm trees over parking garages and roof.
Painting of a large, fluffy cat that looks like a Maine Coon with cream, gray, and black fur and big, gentle green eyes. The cat is lying on it's stomach with feet crossed in front and looking straight ahead. The painting is on thick paper with deckled edges, and there's a handful of Derwent Inktense colored pencils that were used for the painting (along with a water brush, not pictured) nearby.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book opened to a page with sketches of kelp, coral, and clownfish painted in a watercolor style with Robert Oster fountain pen inks Fire on Fire (orange), Yellow Sunrise (yellow orange), Tea Time (yellow green), Muddy Grass (dark gray geen), Detox (dark yellow green), Devon Green (blue-leaning green), Earth (neutral gray brown), Muddy Sand (rich brown), Muddy Swamp (gray blue), and Chicago (medium grayish blue). An asymmetric ceramic ink palette that looks like a cluster of bubbles, with round wells for paint in a range of sizes.
Assembled LEGO sets on a desk. Creator 3-1 set 31169 Typewriter with Flowers built as alternate design for a small pink flower pot with pink, yellow, and blue flowers and a small LEGO "pen and paper" set with "To rebuild, or not to rebuild" on a sticker on the white paper. Also half of the Ideas series set 21340 Tales of the Space Age which is four artistic space scenes, the two that are built are a blue vista with two satellite dishes pointed up toward a large comet and three smaller shooting stars in space, and an orange vista with a small outpost and rover vehicle on the surface and a pair of crescent moons above, one very large and the other smaller.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch of jellyfish for PLUS x Sailor Deep Blue, a dark green leaning blue with red sheen.
Four built Lego Botanical sets placed in a row on top of a gray piece of furniture. The first set is Plum Blossom which looks like a dark branch with bright red blooms in a blue pot with gold accents. The second is a Mini Orchid with several pale peach blooms on a curved stalk and large dark leaves in a darker peach pot with gold accents. The third is Lucky Bamboo with three green stalks with leaves surrounded by gray pebbles set in a low taupe pot with gold accents. The fourth set is Chrysanthemums with large ball-shaped orange blooms and dark green stems and leaves and a mint green pot with gold accents.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch for Colorverse Colorvent Day 22 Portuguese Meteor (glistening), a bright blue green with matching shimmer.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch for Colorverse Colorvent Day 19 Milky Way (glistening), a deep purple with blue shimmer.
Schon Pocket Six fountain pen, a pocket size metal pen, in Golden Smoke colorway which is a misty purple-gray with thick golden yellow lines in an asymmetrical pattern. Ink used is Colorverse Morning Glow from the Colorvent Calender, a chromashading gray with hints of purple and pink.
Small Lego Christmas train hauling presents and a mini Christmas tree under a full-size Christmas tree lit with white lights.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch for Colorverse Colorvent Day 16: Eclipse Silence, a dark, shiny black.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch for Colorverse Colorvent Day 13: Neptune Occultation, a dark purple with red sheen.
All the "Atlantis" theme items from Dominant Industry. The Ink Archiving Book, a B6 hardcover with dark blue color and foil design. Two bottles and swatches of Dominant Industry fountain pen ink, a blue green with bright blue shimmer called Atlantis, and a chromashading green called Seaweed. A rubber stamp of an ornate bottle.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch of an ornate vase pouring streams of water and the Aquarius symbol of waves for Colorverse Colorvent Day 10: Aquarius Whispers, a vibrant blue green.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch of the Mars rover Curiosity for Colorverse Colorvent Day 7: Rover (glistening), a warm medium gray with shimmer.
Two assembled Lego Botanical sets, a green pot with gold accents and orange chrysanthemum flowers, and a blue and gold pot with red and pink plum blossom branches.
Five Col-o-dex ink swatch cards with sketches for Diamine Inkvent 2022 Day 16: Serendipity, Day 17: Flame, Day 18: Olive Swirl, Day 19: Silent Night, and Day 20: Arctic Blast.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch of large rocks "sailing" across the hard ground for Colorverse Colorvent 2024 Day 4: Sailing Stones, a medium gray brown.
Col-o-dex ink swatch card with sketch of large star for Colorverse Colorvent 2024 Day 1: Supergiant, a very bright red.
Five Col-o-dex ink swatch cards with sketches for Diamine Inkvent 2022 Day 1: Bliss, Day 2: Yule Log, Day 3: Solar Storm, Day 4: Spruce, and Day 5: Spiced Apple.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book opened to a page with rays painted in with 7 shades of gray ink. Sailor Yurameku Yoi (this ink turned purple on this paper!) Diamine Ash (a favorite from Inkvent 2021 that leans into blues) Colorverse Hwaseong Fortress (warm dark gray) Color Traveler Ondo Baby Sardines Greige (a very good neutral gray) Pelikan Moonstone (slightly purple-leaning gray) 3 Oysters Doldam (chromashades with purple and yellow) Wearingeul Half Moon with Dimmed Light (medium gray with blue shimmer)
Desk with dip pens and swatching tools, Enigma inkvent nib-shaped holder in silver and orange, Day 5 sample vial and small wrapped package with number 5 3D-printed ornament containing another ink sample, flat wood Christmas tree cutout decoration with wood and 3D-printed ornaments, large mug of tea.
The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book A Log of Atlantis open to a page with drawings of whales that have been painted in with 7 shades of blue fountain pen ink using a water brush. Inks used are Diamine Port of Call & Tariff Teal, The Wet Pen Diablo Lake, Wearingeul Wuthering Heights (shimmer), Birmingham Pen Co Sea Holly & Kingfisher, and Colorverse Blue Crab.
Plate with a Thanksgiving "sandwich" with Hawaiian roll bun, smoked gouda, smoked turkey breast, stuffing, and fresh cranberry sauce.
Twelve Col-o-dex cards with ink swatches and sketches of inks from the 2022 Diamine Inkvent calendar. Day 1, Bliss, bright greenish blue, sketch of person with hat and gloves raising hands in the snow. Day 4, Spruce, dark blue green with red sheen, sketch of a large tree and a couple of branches. Day 7, Alpine, dark gray green with silver shimmer, sketch of mountains with ski slopes. Day 8, Jingle Berry, bright fuchsia pink, sketch of jam and bowl of punch. Day 9, Cardinal, slightly pink bright red, sketch of cardinals. Day 11, Appletini, bright lime green, sketch of appletini cocktails. Day 12, Memory Lane, light lilac purple with silver shimmer, sketch of portraits on wall and photo album. Day 16, Serendipity, a dark teal with heavy red sheen and champagne shimmer, sketch of stars, lucky clover, couple in love, hidden note in book. Day 17, Flame, a bright orange, sketch of lit candles and fire in fireplace. Day 19, Silent Night, a dark blue gray with red sheen, sketch of winter landscape with trees, snow, and a full moon. Day 22, Deck the Halls, a dark purple with pink shimmer, sketch of a fireplace with holly and stockings hung. Day 24, One More Sleep, a medium blue-purple, sketch of a bedroom with bed, picture on the wall, and window.
Plastic bag of small bottles of ink from the 2022 Diamine Inkvent Calendar, stack of Col-o-dex cards, small pen tray with two glass dip pens.
25 Col-o-dex fountain pen ink swatch cards for the 2021 Diamine Inkvent Calendar. Each card has a band of ink across the top, the name of the ink, and a sketch inspired by the name and color of the ink. Seize the Night (standard, dark purple) Garland (shimmer & sheen, dark teal) Ash (standard, shading gray) Tempest (shimmer, blue black) Harmony (standard, dusty purple) Winter Spice (shimmer & sheen, brown) Candle Light (standard, warm yellow) Raspberry Rose (standard, medium pink) Storm (shimmer, dark blue gray) Peach Punch (standard, light peach) Party Time (shimmer, vibrant pink) Stargazer (shimmer & sheen, dark blue) Ruby Blues (sheen, bright blue) Red Robin (standard, soft red) Night Shade (standard, dark periwinkle blue) Vintage Copper (shimmer, red orange) Thunderbolt (standard, vibrant blue purple) Subzero (shimmer, light blue) Festive Joy (standard, bright purple) Pink Ice (shimmer, light pink) Brandy Snap (standard, warm tan) Black Ivy (sheen, dark green) Wonderland (standard, bright yellow orange) Yuletide (standard, dark teal) All the Best (shimmer & sheen, dark pink)
Hardcover book of All Systems Red by Martha Wells and journal page of quotes and sketches from the book using Diamine Red Robin fountain pen ink.
Four Col-o-dex ink swatch cards with sketches for Esterbrook Quirky Leaf (a bright yellow green), Colorverse Horizon (a dark yellow brown), Colorverse Gold Rush (reddish brown and black with gold shimmer), and Robert Oster Songbird (Endless exclusive, warm orange brown).
Col-o-dex ink swatch cards spread across desk with bottles of fountain pen ink.
Close up on uncapped Abigail Markov Bebe fountain pen in Lavender Ice material, a light gray purple with multicolor shimmer swirls.
Col-o-ring fountain pen ink swatch cards for Diamine 160th Anniversary inks Tariff Teal (a dark teal with red sheen) and Port of Call (a medium blue), Colorverse Gold Rush (brown and black ink with gold shimmer) and Horizon (a dark yellow brown), Esterbrook Quirky Leaf (a complex yellow green), and Robert Oster Songbird (a dark orange brown).
Three Rol-o-dex card holders filled with Col-o-dex cards of fountain pen ink swatches.
A writing sample in green ink from a fountain pen with a Katana nib grind showing slightly narrower vertical strokes in normal writing, with line width increasing from a high angle to a low angle to the page.