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[playpen]

D.C. Supershow Blue..does that count?

[saintsimon]

QUOTE (playpen @ Mar 31 2007, 08:32 PM)

D.C. Supershow Blue..does that count?

Allright, and if you say that colour is permanent you can breath freely. Enjoy the Smurfdom.

[playpen]

Color does indeed stick....::shows Smurf card...hides green claws::

[plipule]

Hi everyone,

 

I now have custody of Meanwhile's set of samples of this ink, and I shall endeavour to get samples/review posted up as soon as poss. There are eight colours of ink here, so it will take a bit of time. But they are on their way ...

 

Just to get started, the green is below. It is called Peridot Green. And it is very striking. I just hope I can do it justice!

I have fiddled and fiddled and fiddled with photoshop and the ink colour here is as close as I can get it to what I see. Sorry about the fuzziness of the image - I am starting to think that my little Sony cybershot isn't really up to this job. But hopefully it will give you some idea of the colour of the ink.

 

[playpen]

Wow, that is the exact color of peridot...at least on my screen! Great color!

[Zarble44]

Are these inks actually permanent? As in Noodler's eternal?

 

Actually, I'm not as concerned about the ink enduring 500 years of alternate bleaching and chemicals, but rather that it can survive condensation dripping from a wet glass on a hot day.

 

 

[plipule]

Right, next installment coming up. Now, again I don't think that my pictures are going to do these inks justice, and I have fiddled with photoshop to give the best idea I can. First, Sepia Quartz:

 

Oh, and by the way I tested the peridot green with a wet cotton bud and it is entirely erasable in seconds. So no, not remotely permanent. They do say on the website that they are water soluble inks, so not particularly surprising.

[plipule]

Funnily enough, having written that yesterday, now I come to look at it, it does have a golden sort of tone to it. But it still reminds me of hot chocolate.

 

Next up, Fuschia Quartz. This one was SO difficult to get even close to on the monitor. It is bluer and darker and crisper than it shows up, but whenever I got anywhere near, the paper had turned blue too. The writing at the top is probably closer to the right colour than the stuff at the bottom:

Edited April 12, 2007 by plipule

[plipule]

I'm not really happy with that. But now onto the last one today which is Lilac Agate. This was a lot easier to get right. I like these inks so much I even bought one of the ones that Meanwhile didn't get in his sample collection - Amazonite Green turned up in the post today, so that will be coming soon.

[plipule]

Well, I was fibbing when I said that was the last today. I couldn't really have a whole new bottle of ink turn up and not try it could I? So, here is Amazonite Green, and I am really glad I paid for it! And yet again, having written that it wasn't very green, on looking again, it is pretty greenish. Oh well.

[meanwhile]

Thanks, George.

 

I should hopefully be able to post my scans today (I had a family medical problem and a scanner problem at the same time, and obviously the first had to take precedence). I only regret that my scrawl will now have to bear comparison with George's much more elegant hand, but I'm glad to see that my neglected Pelikan is thriving under his care.

 

On my monitor George's photo of Peridot looks exactly right. It really is a most gorgeous ink. It's organic, delicate, and glowing with life - it's spring grass with light shining through it. This colour seems to benefit from the "transparent" nature of these inks - as George says, there's a "stained glass window" quality. I suspect that most of these inks will be disappointing in an XF or F nibbed pen, do well in an M or B, and excel in a stub because of this.

 

NOTE: I was wrong about the inks not working well in F nibs: I've looked at my samples and they're fine!

Edited April 12, 2007 by meanwhile

[meanwhile]

The nib I used to test Peridot showed much less shading than George's M200 - I used a Kultur M, a nib with much more constant and enthusiastic flow. I don't think that *any* ink would show significant shading with this nib.

 

The ink still looks good though!

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/peridot.jpg

Edited April 12, 2007 by meanwhile

[meanwhile]

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/fuschia.jpg

[meanwhile]

These inks mix very nicely with each other..

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/greengold-1.jpg

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/greengold-2.jpg

Edited April 12, 2007 by meanwhile

[meanwhile]

They also mix well with other inks...

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/BlueShades.jpg

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/oomfaal/blueShades.jpg

[Mudge]

These posts have done one thing for me:

 

They've given me a good kick. :doh2:

 

I've spent years chasing the elusive or illusory goal of the perfect shades of whatever colours, assuming for some reason that they should be saturated. Seeing all these scans has made me realise how attractive the transparent inks are too. I love the way the paper shows through these samples.

 

I suppose there's one good thing: I might be getting old, but at least I'm not too old to learn...