Ink Blend Of Today: Teal

[Eclectica]

Today's mix:

 

Ink blend experiment of Daimine Sapphire Blue and Diamine Woodland Green:

 

mix-sap-blu-wd-grn.pdf

 

I am using a blend Sapphire Blue : Woodland Green, of 10 : 8 in my pen today and lovin' it!

 

Only one very small patch of ink on my fingers !

 

Just wondered if anyone else mixes inks a bit and has any good mixes they use on a regular basis?

 

Cheers, have a nice day!

 

Eclectica.

 

 

[P.S. Sorry it is a PDF rather than just displaying as JPG, it was a bit rushed this morning scanning it in (my 9yr old boy's first day back at School after the summer break!).]

 

 

[corniche]

Hello Eclectica,

 

This is a great chart! Thanks for posting this; personally, I am rather fond of the 8:10.

 

Thanks again,

 

Sean

Edited September 5, 2013 by corniche

[hungh]

Thanks for posting!

 

All the colors are quite breath taking, but my favorite is the 10:10

 

--Hikari

[lancecreeks]

Awesome chart, thanks! Usually I am to lazy to mix teals and just go with Tsuki-yo. Personally loving the 10:6 - 10:9 range

[soum]

Fantastic, thank you for sharing! I like 10:8 and the ones immediately adjacent to it. I've a bottle of Sapphire Blue, must get the green soon.

[GemMayhem]

Thanks for sharing this mix and the very cool chart! I especially like the results in 10:8 through 10:10 range. Very pretty!

 

P.S. I hope the first day back at school was a great one!

[SallyLyn]

I'm partial to teal type inks, mixes or some ready mades like Noodler's Legal Lapis, 54th Mass or diluted Air Corps.

If you play around and do some deep searches in this forum you may find some recipes from 2006-09. I also found recipes on other sites from the same time.

 

One for dark teal mention a Pelikan, Waterman or Sheaffer Turquoise and slowly add touch of Black Sheaffer.

Another was Waterman Fla Blue and Waterman Green close to 1:1 Probably near what you have.

 

Military Olive Green was Sheaffer Green plus Sheaffer Black.

 

Look for some Black Cherry recipes, they can be fun.

[Eclectica]

Thanks for all your replies - I'm glad to hear that others enjoy teal type colours too!

 

Thanks for sharing this mix and the very cool chart! I especially like the results in 10:8 through 10:10 range. Very pretty!

P.S. I hope the first day back at school was a great one!

 

First day back was good - he slept really well!

 

 

I'm partial to teal type inks, mixes or some ready mades like Noodler's Legal Lapis, 54th Mass or diluted Air Corps.

If you play around and do some deep searches in this forum you may find some recipes from 2006-09. I also found recipes on other sites from the same time.

...

Look for some Black Cherry recipes, they can be fun.

 

Hmmm... Black Cheery, now that sounds interesting... - I'll do some searching - thanks,

 

The trouble with having many inks is that there are many combinations to try - but it is really good fun; as you can see!

 

Following the advice given on this site, I don't mix and add directly to more expensive pens without leaving for a few days in a bottle to see if there is any precipitation/reaction etc., but with easy to clean cheaper pens I usually don't worry and just fill immediately after mixing.

 

Have a great day and happy writing

Cheers,

Eclectica

[martinbir]

Fascinating to see your chart, Eclectica. I would pick the 8:10 but then that is the wonder of such a chart, we can all chooser our own.

 

I have played a little at ink mixing and got some nice results with Diamine Midnight and Bilberry. Now I shall pinch your chart idea and hopefully arrive at the ideal combination. My crude attempts have been either too purple or too blue - maybe I'm just too fussy!

 

Anyway, thanks again.

 

Martin

[DanielCoffey]

There should be plenty of recipes to play with in the Inky Recipes forum. Folks will also document recipes to avoid too.

[inkstainedruth]

Great chart -- very useful. Thanks for posting this.

How did you do the blends themselves? With an eyedropper? And are the results swabs or dipped -- or actually put in the pen (because that will actually determine the color better, IMO, than a swab).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Eclectica]

Great chart -- very useful. Thanks for posting this.

How did you do the blends themselves? With an eyedropper? And are the results swabs or dipped -- or actually put in the pen (because that will actually determine the color better, IMO, than a swab).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I have been looking at ways of using the least ink to cover the widest range of colours while giving a reasonable representation of the range colours which can be made by blending the 2 inks.

 

So far, my method is to use 2 mixing bottles and blend toward the 50%. i.e. put 10 drops of ink1 into a bottle and successively add 1 drop of ink2, mix, dip a nib tip held in a plastic tube so that minimum ink is lost, and draw on the paper in the appropriate place, continue until 10 drops have been added. Then using the other clean mixing bottle, start with 10 drops of ink2 and successively add 1 drop of ink1 etc.

 

This is what the blends look like in terms of percentage and relative difference of percentage between blends.

 

Enjoy!

 

http://www.peggysparlour.co.uk/pubpics/ink-blends.gif

[amberleadavis]

WOW

[MarneM]

I think what amazes me about this chart is how marked a difference there is between 10:9 and 9:10. The changes seem pretty gradual, up until that point.

 

I like a lot of those colors though. Lovely!