Soviet Perseverance

[PrestoTenebroso]

This homemade ink is the result of me wanting a darker red than Noodler's Nikita could provide and me having too much time on my hands. I looked up recipes on FPN that included inks I had on hand, and I came across Black Swan in North African Violets. I thought it was a great ink so I experimented with adding Heart of Darkness to it until I could get a shading, dark, dark red. After great toil, this was the best I could come up with.

 

It works nicely in a flex pen, but it also looks pretty good in the F Noodler's pen the Nikita came with.

[Shinwah]

Hmm I wish the picture could convey the colour to me better

[PrestoTenebroso]

The black line in the recipe is HoD. The "5 drops of water" is a #2.5 pencil, if that helps.

[PrestoTenebroso]