Anderson Fox River Blues

[white_lotus]

Last year I picked up the Anderson Pens lineup of inks at the Long Island Pen Show. It had been announced they were being discontinued. They'd had a reputation of being "too dry" but that actually wasn't the case with the current batch. I've finally gotten around to reviewing this ink. If this ink is still available, there's probably not a lot of it on the Anderson Pens website, otherwise it's a legacy.

 

This one handled pretty well, and was quite fast-drying. Totally not water resistant, and once the paper was wet the ink continued to spread and bleed, leaving a real mess.

 

The usual papers: MvL=Mohawk via Linen, TR=Tomoe River, Hij=Hammermill 28 lb inkjet.

 

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.

I had been a bit curious about this one and some of the other colors when the Anderson Pens inks came out. The only one I ever got around to trying was Green Bay (which I like a lot).

IIRC, the inks were made for them by Scribal Work Shops. I had tried a couple of those, but while I liked the colors I didn't like how the inks behaved. Green Bay had much better flow than Cryptid Leviathan -- now *that* was a dry ink, as I recall.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[white_lotus]

Yes originally they were quite dry, but had been re-formulated. Green Bay is good, and I think this ink is pretty decent. There may be others, but the stock is slowly disappearing.