My bottled greens and blacks

[drifting]

I made up some colour test cards with all the bottled ink I currently have on hand, and I thought I'd throw up some scans of the results. I don't know how to do colour correction, but these look pretty good on my monitor.

 

I cut the cards from an old artist's pad with heavy slightly off-white paper. The first two or three lines are done with a dip pen, the final two are done with a glass pen, and the smear is done with a q-tip.

 

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/seouldrifting/Greens2.jpg

 

Ryan.

[Nellie]

I've been wanting a Noodler's standard green scan for quite some time - thank you very much!! Does it look like what you see on paper and are there any comments on this ink (drying time ...)?

Nellie

 

[Margana]

Your test cards are great! Keep them coming as you acquire more inks in future.

 

BTW your handwriting is very attractive and highly legible. Which pen and nib did you use to write the names of the inks?

[drifting]

I've been wanting a Noodler's standard green scan for quite some time - thank you very much!! Does it look like what you see on paper and are there any comments on this ink (drying time ...)?

Nellie

 

It is pretty close in this scan, but maybe even a touch brighter in real life. I always thought it was very much like a fresh grass stain. In a wet pen it can be darker.

 

It's actually been quite a while since I had Standard Green in a pen, but from what I remember, it isn't a glacial drier (like Legal Lapis), but being Noodler's, it isn't the speediest, either. IME, greens are rarely quick dry, whatever the brand.

 

Ryan.

[drifting]

Your test cards are great! Keep them coming as you acquire more inks in future.

 

BTW your handwriting is very attractive and highly legible. Which pen and nib did you use to write the names of the inks?

 

Thanks!

 

I used a Pel M805 with an Ang .4mm Cursive Italic nib and Noodler's Zhivago, my current favorite combination.

 

Ryan.

[Peter from Sherwood Park]

Thank you -- this will help in my quest for the perfect green.

[fstop22]

Thanks for an incredibly wonderful collection of green inks. This is great to see such a selection of different inks on one page side by side. As you quite rightly have pointed out on my posting your Zhivago is completely different to mine. I quite like the black green look - which is what I was originally aiming for.

[blopplop]

Ryan,

 

these ink scans you've been offering up are fantastic. Please keep them coming as much as you're able.

 

Dave

[drifting]

Adding search/index friendliness:

Noodlers Bulletproof Black

Pelikan Brilliant Black

Noodlers Green Marine

Noodlers Standard Green

Noodlers Zhivago

Montblanc British Racing Green

J. Herbin Vert Empire

Diamine Umber

[dandelion]

For a green lover this is a great scan. I've been curious about Noodler's Marine and it seems to be a great green.

[macthemaths]

Thanks - indexed.