Organics Studio - Manganese

[yazeh]

 

Welcome to a dusky blue black by Organics Studio from the Elements series, made in Maryland, USA.

Ink is muted, with lubrication slightly below average. 

 

From Vanness website:

 

THE ELEMENTS SERIES – our take on a collection of the essential colors of any writing ink collection. These fountain pen inks makeup a set of ‘simple’ colors, tasked with coloring the basic spectrum of pure colors. These chemistry-themed inks were our first foray into the ink world, and have stuck with us ever since.

 

and about Manganese. 

Manganese was first isolated in 1774 by Johan Gahn. It is used for its various oxidation states as the colorant for commercial pigments. It is also a crucial component of steelmaking.

 

Let's start with the chroma:

Writing samples:

If you write with a gusher and flex it'll ghost and bleed through on thin copy paper...

Photo:

 

Comparison:

Watertest: This was removed by filling a pipette with water and dabbing it with a tissue paper. It has no water resistance...

 

 

 And as usual an art work:

Clouds:

Organics Studio Manganese / De Atramentis Document Red

Silver marker....

Paper is Talens...

 

· Pens used: Pilot Kakuno Ef/Stub, Lamy Safari (EF/F/M/B/Stub 1.1), Kanwrite with an Ahab nib. 

· What I liked: Lovely dusky colour....

· What I did not like: Lack of water resistance....

· What some might not like: Muted/ dusky colour....

· Shading: Yes. 

· Ghosting: No. Only if you insist writing with a gusher on copy paper

· Bleed through: Same as above.

· Flow Rate: Wet

· Lubrication: Slightly below average. Much better than Blue Merle

· Nib Dry-out: No.

· Start-up: No.

· Saturation: I would call it dusky blue black. 

· Shading Potential: Yes

· Sheen: Not noticed.

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not noticed.

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not noticed.

· Staining (pen): No.

· Clogging: No.

· Cleaning: Easy

· Water resistance: Inexistant

· Availability: 55 ml bottles

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review, as always.  I'm now curious as to how this ink looks next to something like Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

Just now, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks for the review, as always.  

🙏

Just now, inkstainedruth said:

 

I'm now curious as to how this ink looks next to something like Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Anything for you  

 

 

 

[namrehsnoom]

That’s a beautiful blue-black, I like the aged look of this one a lot 😍.

 

Love the drawing, and especially that stupid mouse that doesn’t seem to realize that umbrellas and lightning are NOT a good combination.

A question here: how did you get that thin lightning line against that blue background? Some trick of the trade or just very patient while drawing ?

[yazeh]

4 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

That’s a beautiful blue-black, I like the aged look of this one a lot 😍.

I thought you might like it

4 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

 

Love the drawing, and especially that stupid mouse that doesn’t seem to realize that umbrellas and lightning are NOT a good combination.

The lighting was an after thought!  Was planning to use bleach but it wasn't reacting as fast as I wanted so I used the silver marker...

 

 

4 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

A question here: how did you get that thin lightning line against that blue background? Some trick of the trade or just very patient while drawing ?

If you mean the silver lighting , I did it with an oil based silver marker. If you mean the thin line close to the umbrella, that's probably a non erased pencil line

 

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

🙏

Anything for you  

 

 

 

Thanks!  It's interesting how similar the writing parts look but how different the swabs are.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks!  It's interesting how similar the writing parts look but how different the swabs are.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Yes, it's often like this

[LizEF]

Thank you, @yazeh!  Great review, as always.   This color is right up my alley and went straight onto my "inks to sample" list.  Love the water-test kitty with his extra long tail.   And the kitty & mouse watching thunderstorm is fabulous - really shows off the range of the ink, and it's the perfect color for a thunderstorm.

[yazeh]

9 hours ago, LizEF said:

Thank you, @yazeh! 

 

9 hours ago, LizEF said:

Great review, as always.  

🙏

9 hours ago, LizEF said:

This color is right up my alley and went straight onto my "inks to sample" list. 

Ah inky temptation

 

9 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

Love the water-test kitty with his extra long tail.   And the kitty & mouse watching thunderstorm is fabulous - really shows off the range of the ink, and it's the perfect color for a thunderstorm.

Let it rain