Week #30 / 23 Jul: Chemists Rule - 2017 Weekly Ink Project

[lgsoltek]

Express our love for our chemists by using an ink from a brand founded by a chemist: De Atramentis, KWZI, L'Artisan Pastellier, Noodler's, Organics Studio, etc.

As usual, don't forget to share with us your choice of ink, your writing, drawing, doodling or anything with the ink in this thread. You can take a photo, make a scan, or even better, write letters and CRV reviews (what is a CRV?) and mail them to the many ink pals here. You are welcome to check back on this thread even when we've gone past this week.

Click here to read more about this community project. Links to the two previous links can be found there too.

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Next week: Be Done with It

[HalloweenHJB]

Here's my addition for this week's challenge.

 

I am a great fan of the de Atramentis inks, and with only a few exceptions, I have been very pleased with both the regular and scented inks.

 

My choice today is... APRICOT. One of my top one or two yellow/gold inks. It's rich enough to read as text, and it makes a magnificent accent color within a text with a different color.

 

 

 

 

Speaking of CHEMISTS, I wonder if anyone can explain the odd reaction of this ink to water. If you put a drop of the golden yellow ink in a glass of water, it instantly turns into a neon green —like antifreeze. Anyone know why?

 

 

[LizEF]

@HalloweenHJB - that neon green reaction is totally cool! Thanks for showing it.

 

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[Chrissy]

Here's my addition for this week's challenge.

 

I am a great fan of the de Atramentis inks, and with only a few exceptions, I have been very pleased with both the regular and scented inks.

 

My choice today is... APRICOT. One of my top one or two yellow/gold inks. It's rich enough to read as text, and it makes a magnificent accent color within a text with a different color.

 

 

 

 

Speaking of CHEMISTS, I wonder if anyone can explain the odd reaction of this ink to water. If you put a drop of the golden yellow ink in a glass of water, it instantly turns into a neon green —like antifreeze. Anyone know why?

 

 

 

 

 

Wow HalloweenHJB, that's an awesome addition for this week's challenge. I never saw that neon green reaction before.

[Chrissy]

@HalloweenHJB - that neon green reaction is totally cool! Thanks for showing it.

 

 

Thanks LizEF. I'm in awe of people who can draw, and I like the KWZ Azure no.5

[LizEF]

Thanks LizEF. I'm in awe of people who can draw, and I like the KWZ Azure no.5

 

Thank you! What's the proper term for "copy doodling" - cuz I think that's closer to what I did. I searched google images and then drew what I saw in the pictures - not too hard with a dot grid to help you keep proportions reasonable... I admire folks who can really draw, and who have good hand-writing - I'm still "working" on that (once in a blue moon, when I have a nice pen in my hand).

[Chrissy]

 

Thank you! What's the proper term for "copy doodling" - cuz I think that's closer to what I did. I searched google images and then drew what I saw in the pictures - not too hard with a dot grid to help you keep proportions reasonable... I admire folks who can really draw, and who have good hand-writing - I'm still "working" on that (once in a blue moon, when I have a nice pen in my hand).

 

Copy-doodling sounds good. I understood what you meant

[lgsoltek]

 

Speaking of CHEMISTS, I wonder if anyone can explain the odd reaction of this ink to water. If you put a drop of the golden yellow ink in a glass of water, it instantly turns into a neon green —like antifreeze. Anyone know why?

 

 

 

 

I've heard about yellow being perceived as green at low saturation or something like that. Maybe this Quora answer can explain that?

Yellow is usually defined as equal amounts of red and green. At low levels, the red LED or phosphors may be less efficient than the green, leading to dim yellow showing more of the green.

By the way great choice, Herbert!

[Newjelan]

HalloweenHJB that is one great ink.

 

My entry for this week:

 

 

Up close:

 

[lgsoltek]

@HalloweenHJB - that neon green reaction is totally cool! Thanks for showing it.

 

http://www.paradoxcommunity.com/vps/30chemists.jpg

Love Azure #5! It was my Week 27 choice!

[evyxmsj]

Here's my addition for this week's challenge.

 

I am a great fan of the de Atramentis inks, and with only a few exceptions, I have been very pleased with both the regular and scented inks.

 

My choice today is... APRICOT. One of my top one or two yellow/gold inks. It's rich enough to read as text, and it makes a magnificent accent color within a text with a different color.

 

...[pics]...

 

 

Speaking of CHEMISTS, I wonder if anyone can explain the odd reaction of this ink to water. If you put a drop of the golden yellow ink in a glass of water, it instantly turns into a neon green —like antifreeze. Anyone know why?

 

 

 

 

 

Nice orange! I am such a sucker for pretty orange inks, even though I barely use them day to day. No idea why

 

Here's my entry: not quite as bright!

 

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[HalloweenHJB]

 

My entry for this week:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reminding me of that smell! I began teaching while we still used that method, and I can't even remember what it was actually called. You called them "spirit duplication" down under? I do remember that the paper would come out cold —after hand cranking them!— and the smell of that "fluid" would make students happy.

 

Lovely choice for this week's ink!

[Newjelan]

Thanks for reminding me of that smell! I began teaching while we still used that method, and I can't even remember what it was actually called. You called them "spirit duplication" down under? I do remember that the paper would come out cold after hand cranking them! and the smell of that "fluid" would make students happy.

 

Lovely choice for this week's ink!

I'm pretty sure we called them "spirit duplicators" (I was only 6 or so yrs old at the time) and, thanks to you, I remember we used to sniff the printed paper (oh dear), the paper was cold & the hand cranking. My father had a Gestetner (?) which he used to print newsletters for community work he was involved in, and I loved the smell of the ink on them as well. It's his fault that I'm addicted to fountain pens, ink & paper!

[LizB]

I've noticed that luminant green effect in other colours of inks too, notably reds I think, when I flush a pen out into a jar of water.

[HalloweenHJB]

I've noticed that luminant green effect in other colours of inks too, notably reds I think, when I flush a pen out into a jar of water.

 

 

Really? Do you remember which ones? Interesting to see if I have any that you're referring to.

 

HJB

[LizB]

 

 

Really? Do you remember which ones? Interesting to see if I have any that you're referring to.

 

HJB

 

 

I think Sailor Oku Yama does it.

[namrehsnoom]

 

A wonderful concoction from France (by the chemist of L'Artisan Pastellier) - this particular one is too light for writing, but what a gorgeous colour!

[HalloweenHJB]

Love this ink! Not too light, as long as you have a wet writer —like a vintage flex nib pen! Wonderful in that case!

[FPRebel]

Thanks for reminding me of that smell! I began teaching while we still used that method, and I can't even remember what it was actually called. You called them "spirit duplication" down under? I do remember that the paper would come out cold —after hand cranking them!— and the smell of that "fluid" would make students happy.

 

Lovely choice for this week's ink!

A lovely ink choice, indeed, and a lovely trip down memory lane. HJB, is the word you were searching for, mimeograph? At least here in the southern US, that was the generic name for all the purple-inked, drum duplicators.

 

....I remember we used to sniff the printed paper (oh dear), the paper was cold & the hand cranking. My father had a Gestetner (?) which he used

Oooh! Sniffing those pages "Happy students" - who said that? haha! I still remember the burn in my nose and my eyes watering from the smell. Gestetner! There's a word I haven't heard in a long while.

[FPRebel]

Ugh...chemistry was as difficult in college as it was in high school. I fantastically admire chemists!