Haloing Inks

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

What's your best haloing ink ? Since it haloing is  slightly different from sheening, I thought it would be nice to have a list of haloing inks.

[dragondazd]

Please tell me more about haloing. I don't know if I can tell the difference. Is it like the attached photo of 735?

[LizEF]

3 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

Please tell me more about haloing. I don't know if I can tell the difference. Is it like the attached photo of 735?

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Yes, that's a halo.  In this case, the ink gathering to outline the stroke also sheens, but sheening inks aren't the only ones that do this.  IMO, the nib plays a big role in creating a halo.  I haven't worked at documenting this effect, so I can't really say much, only that I think the right nib and ink (and, of course, FP-friendly paper) are required.

[dragondazd]

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

Yes, that's a halo.  In this case, the ink gathering to outline the stroke also sheens, but sheening inks aren't the only ones that do this.  IMO, the nib plays a big role in creating a halo.  I haven't worked at documenting this effect, so I can't really say much, only that I think the right nib and ink (and, of course, FP-friendly paper) are required.

So different-color outline that might or might not be shiny?

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

So different-color outline that might or might not be shiny?

Not a different color, just more of the ink, so darker of the same color.  Whether it sheens will depend on the ink.

[Misfit]

Here’s a thread with lots of photos of outlining inks. 
 

 

[Misfit]

Here is an ink I wrote with that has the haloing effect. 

[dragondazd]

In this Anderson pena video they discuss two different approaches to shading, and propose that some inks are designed for cursive strokes vs. shorter character strokes. This sounds similar to the bottom-pool vs. shoreline shading.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=anderson+pens+turquoise+inks+video&oq=anderson+pens+turquoise+inks+video&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.12555j0j7&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#

 

I'm up for either kind of shading.

[inkstainedruth]

My favorite ink that haloes is vintage Skrip Peacock.  

The closest substitute I've found for that ink is Diamine Turquoise (I like Diamine Havasu Turquoise too, but the color isn't the same).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[WalterC]

There was an old thread about haloing/outlining inks. The best example to my eye was either coffee or tea used as ink. I have no idea what the other characteristics were like (does tea fade in bright sunlight?). I can't find the thread now. 

      Tea contains tannic acid. Iron gall ink is basically iron ions added to tannic acid (usually from oak galls). A very strong Indian black tea made with well water that contains iron would probably make a weak iron gall ink.

[dragondazd]

Aha! I struggled to capture this one. Sailor Nekoyanagi.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Wow!  That's interesting.  Most of the examples I've seen or experienced were just a darker shade of the base ink.  But this one really looks almost like a different color (although I suppose it's possibly just a form of chromatography).

Thanks for posting the image!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[JulieParadise]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Most of the examples I've seen or experienced were just a darker shade of the base ink.  But this one really looks almost like a different color (although I suppose it's possibly just a form of chromatography).

 

The theory we came up with in the German PenExchange forum is that these duo-/multichromatic inks work because they are quite unsaturated/watery, so they kind of perform chromatography with themselves on paper when the application is just wet and spread out enough to see it.

 

So all it needs is a generous nib, a line width that enables you to spot the actual colour(s), and paper that does not just absorb the ink but lets it stay on top.

[Mayo]

Pelikan 4001 Turquoise, which was also the first ink bottle I ever got. It's subtle but still quite noticeable and looks neat.

[Penguincollector]

I found that the Parker Quink blue made in India under license by Luxor has a shiny pink outline. Lamy Petrol also outlines in silver.  Paper is Sakae Iroful. Pens are an Osmoroid 93 IB dip pen for the Quink, and an MV Points stub dip pen for the Lamy.

[AndyYNWA]

"Halo", you say..? Never heard that expression.
To me it's just "outline".

 

Anyway... I love outlining inks. Yama-dori has nice outline in slightly dryer pens (otherwise it just pools up at the end of the strokes).

[Misfit]

@AndyYNWA I love outlining inks also.