Week #6 / 5 Feb: Go Large - 2017 Weekly Ink Project

[Newjelan]

This week's entry...

 

 

[AndyYNWA]

I don't have any pen available to fill at the moment... All pens are inked up...

[dvalliere]

My largest bottle is a 4.5 oz (133ml) Noodler's behemoth containing Heart of Darkness. My Parker 51 is always filled with it and ready to write.

 

[gylyf]

[lgsoltek]

 

I've been waiting for this bottle to appear!

[visvamitra]

Wow It really is huge.

[gylyf]

I've been waiting for this bottle to appear!

 

Wow It really is huge.

I haven't even opened it. I have about half of a 70ml bottle left, so at the rate I go through ink, I probably never will!

[Tas]

I don't have a 1 litre Daytone bottle, but perhaps these will do...

 

 

 

Love them dcwaites !

 

My largest bottle of unmixed ink still remains my Akkerman #10

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_week_6_akkerman_10.jpg

 

 

[Noihvo]

 

[lgsoltek]

 

 

 

 

For a moment I thought it was Akkerman #28. (Who knows, maybe it is!)

[Noihvo]

 

For a moment I thought it was Akkerman #28. (Who knows, maybe it is!)

 

[Tas]

 

 

I adore your writing and admire your handwritten posts.

 

Your writing style is natural and legible and most importantly, real.

Massive fan.

[MsRedpen]

 

Largest bottle I have is GvFC Hazelnut Brown.

I love the colour. It usually drifts my mind towards cakes...

 

Edited February 11, 2017 by MsRedpen

[Noihvo]

 

I adore your writing and admire your handwritten posts.

 

Your writing style is natural and legible and most importantly, real.

Massive fan.

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Finally got a chance to scan stuff in this evening. It's been a week....

4 hours at the car dealership, waiting on repairs after an idiot light came on (less than a week after the same light came on -- apparently for something completely different from the reason it came on last week).

Many hours trying to get an answer about the format required for a newsletter arts issue article (the current editor doesn't bother to read her email regularly... ; it took me having to basically "shame" her on FB to get her attention). Oh, and the published email for the guy she's supposedly training up to replace her was wrong.... And then many *more* hours trying to format the artwork (originally four-to-a-page images saved as .pdf files -- they had to be re-saved as a bunch of individual .jpgs so I could adjust the size and increase the saturation level), and then copied and pasted (one by one) with added captions. [The plus side of all this, as I said when I sent her the final, proofread, document, is that I now understand working with iPages a LOT better....]

And then we spent most of the afternoon TODAY (Saturday) at the funeral for the mother of a couple of friends of ours....

So....

I actually ended up picking 2 inks for week 6: one from one of my *actual* largest bottles -- Noodler's Heart of Darkness(4-1/2 oz. bottle); and one from what HAD been my largest bottle for both size and capacity, but decanted into 4 oz. Boston rounds -- vintage Skrip Peacock (a 3/4 full pint bottle found a couple of summers ago in an antiques mall outside Clarion, PA).

Both were used for journal entries. I used HoD nearly every time I had to write something permanent (writing checks to pay bills, addressing envelopes, and so on); Skrip Peacock got used for my QotW entry:

(but I'm not sure that the scanner picked up the crazy red sheen that Skrip Peacock was showing on the creme colored Tomoe River paper...). I played around with a copy of the scan to try and reproduce without losing the amazing color in other respects:

​but I could either get true color or color adjusted (as in the detail) to try and catch the red....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for formatting

Edited February 12, 2017 by inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

Ruth, WOW! Thank you.

[DrDebG]

I just received two new bottles of Montblanc inks - one in Burgundy Red and the other in Lavender Purple. These are my largest bottles at present.

[Arkanabar]

http://i.imgur.com/A58gaAb.jpg

[lgsoltek]

Ruth, I love how that Skrip Peacock looks. Why is vintage stuff always so pretty and more interesting than the modern stuff?

And your uncial is lovely as well.

[inkstainedruth]

Ruth, I love how that Skrip Peacock looks. Why is vintage stuff always so pretty and more interesting than the modern stuff?

And your uncial is lovely as well.

 

Thanks. I wish that the sheen could have come through in the scan. I had thought the Diamine Turquoise was a close match to the Skrip, but I'm not sure it sheens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth