InkShift - Pelikan Edelstein Apatite to Golden Beryl

[namrehsnoom]

InkShift – Pelikan Edelstein Apatite to Golden Beryl
 
Just for the fun of it, I occasionally resume my project exploring what happens when you move progressively from one ink colour to another. My hope is that some of these "inkshifts" result in interesting colours that I can use to write/draw with. And besides... it's just fun to watch one ink colour morph into another one. 
 
Pelikan Edelstein Apatite (review coming shortly) is the new Ink of the Year 2022. I knew it wasn’t my type of colour, but I collect these Edelstein inks, and so didn’t want to miss this one. Apatite is a really bright and in-your-face blue… a full page of it really is just too much for me. I got the feeling though that it might be a nice base colour for some ink mixes. So I resurfaced Edelstein Golden Beryl – a golden yellow that works well with wet & broad nibs, but not so well with my usual F and M pens. Could there be some nice looking greens in there? Who knows… only one way to find out, and that is to do the inkshift experiment.

 

 
In the span between the two starting inks some interesting greens appear, that certainly cater more to my taste than the bright blue Apatite original. The 1:1 mix results in a fresh spring green that looks quite nice. And the 1:2 and 1:3 mixes of Apatite with Golden Beryl are more of a delicate lemon grass green. Overall, a few very appealing greens in the mix.

 

 

 

Above, you can see the progression of the chromas from Apatite on the left to Golden Beryl on the right (with the 2:1, 1:1 and 1:2 mixes in between). From these, you can already see that none of these mixes show any water resistance. It’s also clear that the mixes with a stronger presence of the yellow ink show a bit more complexity.

 

 

 

I continue to enjoy these ink morphing experiments. Fun adventures in ink-land, and more often than not you are rewarded with a mix that beats the original inks. Fun guaranteed!
 

[InesF]

On 7/22/2022 at 12:02 PM, namrehsnoom said:

Pelikan Edelstein Apatite (review coming shortly) is the new Ink of the Year 2022. I knew it wasn’t my type of colour, but I collect these Edelstein inks, and so didn’t want to miss this one.

Collectors fate! 

I love your ink shifts and admire the effort you put into them. 👍

In this case you elevated the usefulness of two Edelstein inks! Well done! 

[Ted A]

Very nice. I think 1:3 and 1:5 are much nicer than either of the constituent inks.

[inkstainedruth]

Thank you (again) for doing these mix samples.  They're always very interesting.

I'm sort of with Ted A on the mixes vs. the raw colors, but my preference is the 2:1 and 1:2 ratios, I think.

I do have a question, namrehsnoom.  Were the mixes done with or without the shimmer particles in Golden Beryl?  (It's a bit hard to tell on my screen.)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[namrehsnoom]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I do have a question, namrehsnoom.  Were the mixes done with or without the shimmer particles in Golden Beryl?  (It's a bit hard to tell on my screen.)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I did the mixes without the Golden Beryl shimmer particles.

 

And my personal preference is 1 part Apatite, 2 parts Golden Beryl. I just inked a full pen with this mix, and it is simply gorgeous! I will do a full ink mix review of this one in the near future.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the comparison.

[Misfit]

Cool project. And it required patience I’m betting.