Which Inks Are You Using Today?

[GardenWeasel]

Noodler’s 5 O’Clock Shadow.

[MHBru]

Today? Caran d' Ache Ultra Violet in a Lamy Aion broad

[Jarod]

 

Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi and J Herbin Caroube de Chypre

How similar are they after all? Do you use Caroube de Chypre without the sparkles?

[Intensity]

How similar are they after all? Do you use Caroube de Chypre without the sparkles?

 

They are in the same color family of translucent red-pink-browns. Very similar wash with a water brush too. Tsukushi washes a bit more pink and with a more noticeable yellow component vs Caroube de Chypre that's slightly peachier overall.

 

Caroube de Chypre has a lot of shading and needs a wet pen to be darker and more "brown". Tsukushi is denser and doesn't shade easily.

 

On Tomoe River 52g Tsukushi can easily show a dark outline edge, whereas Caroube de Chypre doesn't.

 

Tsukushi has a lime-yellow metallic sheen that veils the writing quite readily, masking the redness. I.e. when you write with it, it's a clear pink-brown, but when it dries, the color shifts. So it can actually look kind of a weird green-leaning brown in certain light and in some conditions, which I don't like. Depends on how prominent the sheen is, but it's very easy to get that faint veil of olive green over the ink on good paper. Caroube de Chypre also has green sheen, but more green-olive green. It doesn't veil the writing in the same way, so the redness is preserved. But if you use a dip pen or a bold and juicy pen, you will get more sheen and shimmer over the base color, so it will look more neutral brown as a result.

 

I presonally like Caroube de Chypre more for its complexity, and because that veiled greenish sheen of Tsukushi that shifts the dried ink color bothers me.

 

Tsukushi has better water resistance.

 

Here's a comparison scan which makes them look more different than they do in person. You can see that Tsukushi looks more brown in writing because of that faint veiling sheen, but the water brush clearly shows how heavy the pink component is.

 

 

Quick phone photo under artificial light:

 

P.S.: I like the sparkles. They are very subtle in normal handwriting with a finer nib. I have to strain to find them, looking against artificial light. The sparkles also give a beautiful effect to the ink wash if you use it like watercolor. If you don't shake the bottle, the sparkles almost all settle down at the base of the bottle, so you can just fill the ink with almost no shimmer included, if you prefer that. This is true for all of the Diamine and J. Herbin shimmer inks I've used.

Edited September 3, 2020 by Intensity

[Jarod]

@Intensity Oh, wow! Just... WOW! Wow for the in-depth comparison, and wow for the art work!

 

I thought that Caroube de Chypre would be darker and more orange-leaning than pink. I like it, I like it! But I would definitely leave the sparkles at the bottom of the bottle.

 

Nice to hear that the Diamine's shimmer inks you've tried settle at the bottom of the bottle. There are some of their Shimmering colour line that I like because the ink seems more saturated that their regular inks. I think I will give some of them a try, as well as a few of the Inkvent's.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

1) Diamine Guitar Series Pelham Blue, in the Dark Lilac Safari, F nib.

2) Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa, in the grey Decimo, F nib.

3) Kyo-no-oto Sakuranezumi, in the the Pro Gear Slim, zoom nib.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ENewton]

Today it's been:

1) Diamine Guitar Series Pelham Blue, in the Dark Lilac Safari, F nib.

2) Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa, in the grey Decimo, F nib.

3) Kyo-no-oto Sakuranezumi, in the the Pro Gear Slim, zoom nib.

 

 

Looking forward to hearing your experience of Sakuranezumi!

 

I am currently using:

• Sailor Kobe Suma Purple in the Sailor 1911S Wicked Witch of the West M (favorite ink)
• Rohrer & Klingner Aubergine in the Parker 51 Plum Demi F (favorite pen)
• Rohrer & Klingner Sepia in the Parker Victory F (favorite nib)

[bayindirh]

• Mont Blanc Royal Blue - Faber Castell Ambition Pearwood, Medium
• Lamy Black - Lamy Safari Umbra, Fine
• Scrikss Blue Black - Pilot MR1, Medium

 

[MBDostoevsky]

My own mixture of Parker Quink and Pelikan Blue that ended up as a Midnight Blue-Black :-)

[Tas]

My own mixture of Parker Quink and Pelikan Blue that ended up as a Midnight Blue-Black :-)

Ooo, photo please

[MBDostoevsky]

Ooo, photo please

 

Here you go... nothing much to show.... the pen is Parker 51

 

[bayindirh]

 

Here you go... nothing much to show.... the pen is Parker 51

 

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Ahem, that's some mesmerizing dark, matt, blue (black). It's not nothing much to show.

 

Maybe you should share the recipe in the recipes forum?

 

[SchaumburgSwan]

 

Here you go... nothing much to show.... the pen is Parker 51

 

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Ha! That's a nice mix. :-)

 

Best

Jens

[Tas]

 

Here you go... nothing much to show.... the pen is Parker 51

 

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Ooo, that reminds me of R&K Document Blue.

Thank you.

Looks lovely.

[MBDostoevsky]

 

Ahem, that's some mesmerizing dark, matt, blue (black). It's not nothing much to show.

 

Maybe you should share the recipe in the recipes forum?

 

 

Thanks for your encouragement. I need to practice making this shade, then will I be able to share it.

 

 

Ha! That's a nice mix. :-)

 

Best

Jens

 

Thanks Jens!

[inkstainedruth]

 

 

Looking forward to hearing your experience of Sakuranezumi!

 

I am currently using:

• Sailor Kobe Suma Purple in the Sailor 1911S Wicked Witch of the West M (favorite ink)
• Rohrer & Klingner Aubergine in the Parker 51 Plum Demi F (favorite pen)
• Rohrer & Klingner Sepia in the Parker Victory F (favorite nib)

 

Sakuranezumi is an odd color, unsaturated with a lot of shading, and sort of a murky brown-purple (at least coming out of the zoom nib, which is, IMO, a little on the dry side). I have other inks it's similar to, but my ink journal indexes are upstairs and my husband has already gone to bed and I don't want to wake him up so I don't remember which ones offhand. I think it was similar in color to some purple IG ink I have after oxidizing (but of course Sakuranezumi isn't an IG ink itself, AFAIK).

I got to see the Wicked Witch pen when I was in Bromfield's and it was more blue toned than I was expecting from the stuff I'd seen online. If I'd had it with me that day, I would have pulled out my Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos for a color comparison. (Of course, there's a part of me going "But she ruled over the Winkies, and their color was *yellow*, the way the color for the Munchkins was blue...." )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ENewton]

Sakuranezumi is an odd color, unsaturated with a lot of shading, and sort of a murky brown-purple (at least coming out of the zoom nib, which is, IMO, a little on the dry side). I have other inks it's similar to, but my ink journal indexes are upstairs and my husband has already gone to bed and I don't want to wake him up so I don't remember which ones offhand. I think it was similar in color to some purple IG ink I have after oxidizing (but of course Sakuranezumi isn't an IG ink itself, AFAIK).

I got to see the Wicked Witch pen when I was in Bromfield's and it was more blue toned than I was expecting from the stuff I'd seen online. If I'd had it with me that day, I would have pulled out my Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos for a color comparison. (Of course, there's a part of me going "But she ruled over the Winkies, and their color was *yellow*, the way the color for the Munchkins was blue...." )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Hmmm. I like murky brown-purple. My favorite ink is Sailor Kobe Suma Purple, but that ink is saturated, with little shading, so Sakurazemi would surely be quite different...

 

I ordered the Wicked Witch of the West Pen from an online source and agree that the color is bluer than online images would suggest--certainly a purple, but leaning slightly blue. It is close enough in color to the base color of the Purple Cosmos that I doubt that I get a photograph that would make the difference evident. However, in addition to the slight difference in color, the Wicked Witch plastic has a milkier look, which I find quite interesting.

 

The lack of alignment with the story doesn't bother me. One of the reasons I felt I had the pen is that when I am to meet someone for the first time and want the person to be able to recognize me, I always say, "I look like the Wicked Witch of the West (meaning Margaret Hamilton in the movie) but wearing purple clothes."

 

As for inks I am using today, I still have Suma Purple in the Wicked Witch and Rohrer & Klingner Aubergine in the Parker 51 Plum Demi, but I just filled my Kaweco Sport F with Birmingham Waterfront Dusk. The Sport is usually dry and Waterfront Dusk not especially saturated, but right now I am getting a dark, broad line, too broad to be practical for my daily writing. I suspect the interior temperature of my house--in the mid 80 degrees Fahrenheit for the past several days--to be a factor. I am reminded of when I once made the mistake of writing with the Sport in an airplane, and suddenly J Herbin Bleu Myositis, which had previously produced a whispery pale blue line coming from that pen, filled my customs declaration form with rivers of indigo.

[MHBru]

Sakuranezumi is an odd color, unsaturated with a lot of shading, and sort of a murky brown-purple (at least coming out of the zoom nib, which is, IMO, a little on the dry side). I have other inks it's similar to, but my ink journal indexes are upstairs and my husband has already gone to bed and I don't want to wake him up so I don't remember which ones offhand. I think it was similar in color to some purple IG ink I have after oxidizing (but of course Sakuranezumi isn't an IG ink itself, AFAIK).

I got to see the Wicked Witch pen when I was in Bromfield's and it was more blue toned than I was expecting from the stuff I'd seen online. If I'd had it with me that day, I would have pulled out my Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos for a color comparison. (Of course, there's a part of me going "But she ruled over the Winkies, and their color was *yellow*, the way the color for the Munchkins was blue...." )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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I had not heard of Sakurazemi until this post but find it remarkably similar to the Caran d'Ache Ultra Violet that I coincidentally mentioned here just last week. As another interesting aside, UV is also on the dryer side and I got some White Lightening from Vanness and it made a tremendous difference.

Edited September 8, 2020 by MHBru

[MHBru]

 

Ahem, that's some mesmerizing dark, matt, blue (black). It's not nothing much to show.

 

Maybe you should share the recipe in the recipes forum?

 

agreed.. it's a beautiful color

[eclectic2316]

I am using Sheaffer Brown, Private Reserve Sherwood Green and Waterman South Sea Blue. What about you?

 

 

I am using Sheaffer Brown, Private Reserve Sherwood Green and Waterman South Sea Blue. What about you?

I am using Noodler's Legal Lapis, Sailor Gentle Blue, and Waterman Serenity Blue.