EFNIR: Platinum Violet

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Platinum Violet

This is review #312 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This cartridge came with a Platinum Preppy. It was new enough that I didn't need to add water.

This is a very magenta-y purple.  The images did not want to cooperate, so the colors are off in all of them.  The slide was boring as could be. Cleaning was quick and easy.

Erratum: "I quickly surrounded..." should be "It quickly surrounded..." :/

Zoomed in photo (This probably comes closest, but it's too pink.)

Screenshot (Color a little too dark and makes a strange transition from the top to the bottom of the page.)

Scan of Completed Review (On one monitor, it's too neon; on the other, slightly too purple.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both are also too pink.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 330µm. With 312 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (Much purpler than what my eyes see.  But you also see the gold sheen here.)

Previous Review: Rotring Brillant (Black).

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Mercian]

49 minutes ago, LizEF said:

This is a very magenta-y purple.  The images did not want to cooperate, so the colors are off in all of them.

 

This comment reminds me of my experience of Pelikan 4001 Violet when used in pens with narrow nibs.
From narrow nibs, I have found that ink to replicate almost exactly the colour that I perceive on the inmost side of a rainbow

 

In wider/wetter nibs I have found 4001 Violet to get a bit more 'purple-y'.
I wonder whether the Platinum Violet also does that 🤔

[yazeh]

Thanks @LizEF for such an excellent review 👍

This is the type of colour which i mostly appreciate in flowers and even then, it depends. As an ink no way

However, I loved the storyline with Quin's ultimate sacrifice. These are time when you crave closeups Simon's doubtful sneering till incredulous, QuinMa's defeated to hope, Mak's doubt to relief etc.

Looking forward to the next episode.

 

Thanks for bringing healing this Tuesday 🖖

[LizEF]

18 minutes ago, Mercian said:

This comment reminds me of my experience of Pelikan 4001 Violet when used in pens with narrow nibs.
From narrow nibs, I have found that ink to replicate almost exactly the colour that I perceive on the inmost side of a rainbow

 

In wider/wetter nibs I have found 4001 Violet to get a bit more 'purple-y'.
I wonder whether the Platinum Violet also does that 🤔

Well, the big swatch was also very magenta-y, but if I've learned anything, it's that inks and color can surprise you.   But since I used up my one and only cartridge, I won't be the one experimenting to find out!

[LizEF]

18 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks @LizEF for such an excellent review 👍

You're most welcome!

 

19 minutes ago, yazeh said:

This is the type of colour which i mostly appreciate in flowers and even then, it depends. As an ink no way

It would make very pretty flowers.  I think I could like it almost everywhere, but not walls, or carpets, or other large applications - it's more suitable as an "accent" color.

 

22 minutes ago, yazeh said:

However, I loved the storyline with Quin's ultimate sacrifice. These are time when you crave closeups Simon's doubtful sneering till incredulous, QuinMa's defeated to hope, Mak's doubt to relief etc.

Looking forward to the next episode.

Thanks!  The things you describe are one way that video excels - you can quickly show all those reactions.  Describing them in print is not so easy.  The reader's imagination will have to fill in all the gaps - thanks for helping!

 

25 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for bringing healing this Tuesday 🖖

Gladly!

[yazeh]

@Mercian I'm jealous. How do you.visit the rainbows, helicopter, shuttle, glider, parachute, Pegasus? 😄😅

[yazeh]

1 minute ago, LizEF said:

It would make very pretty flowers.  I think I could like it almost everywhere, but not walls, or carpets, or other large applications - it's more suitable as an "accent" color.

Probably nice clematis 😊 But a decor like that would be cringeworthy 😄

1 minute ago, LizEF said:

 

Thanks!  The things you describe are one way that video excels - you can quickly show all those reactions.  Describing them in print is not so easy.  The reader's imagination will have to fill in all the gaps - thanks for helping!

A pleasure. It would work in comic book format too. 😓

[Mercian]

36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

@Mercian I'm jealous. How do you.visit the rainbows, helicopter, shuttle, glider, parachute, Pegasus? 😄😅

 

Sadly, the first two Rules of the Craft forbid me from revealing the secrets of my Arts in a public forum.

 

Suffice it to say that, although I do not hail from Môn, I am a native of the islands that were the Druids' stronghold; the misty place to which many of the La Tène tribes and Kings sent their apprentice mages, in order to learn the Craft from the acknowledged experts...

 

EtA:
On the other hand, I should probably edit my first post in this thread to disambiguate it, eh?

[LizEF]

29 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Probably nice clematis 😊

[googles] Ooo, pretty.

 

30 minutes ago, yazeh said:

But a decor like that would be cringeworthy 😄

Yes, I'm envisioning those plush carpets with crazy-long fibers, and bell-bottoms...

 

30 minutes ago, yazeh said:

It would work in comic book format too. 😓

If only I could draw!   @Tas, who doesn't visit here (much?) anymore, could surely draw all the needed facial expressions on stick men - his stick men always amaze me.

[LizEF]

22 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Sadly, the first two Rules of the Craft prevent me from revealing the secrets of my Arts in a public forum.

 

25 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Suffice it to say that, although I do not hail from Môn, I am a native of the islands that were the Druids' stronghold; the misty place to which many of the La Tène tribes and Kings sent their apprentice mages, in order to learn the Craft from the acknowledged experts...

Apparently we now need a character, who comes from some islands, that are misty, where kings used to¹ send mages for training.  Hmm.  Perhaps a small isle near Diaminnia - that would be appropriate....  Now we just need to figure out who this character is, and what he does...

 

¹The Wizardlands don't have kings any more.

² This Wikipedia page is the closest my googling seems to have gotten me to Môn.

[Mercian]

On 11/19/2024 at 4:48 PM, LizEF said:

Apparently we now need a character, who comes from some islands, that are misty, where kings used to¹ send mages for training.  Hmm.  Perhaps a small isle near Diaminnia - that would be appropriate....  Now we just need to figure out who this character is, and what he does...

 

If you look back at the PM that I sent you about the blight with which Quin's father was plagued, how about that name/character...?

 

On 11/19/2024 at 4:48 PM, LizEF said:

This Wikipedia page is the closest my googling seems to have gotten me to Môn.

 

Yes, the Welsh name for the island that the English call 'Anglesey' (which, totally inappropriately, means 'the Isle of the Angles' (← EtA: my assumption of this etymology is totally wrong) is Ynys Môn.

The island was the last stronghold of the Druids, before the Legions wiped them out during the Assimilation of 'Britannia' by Claudius' army.

 

Another set of British islands that is well worth thinking about in terms of Magickal locations is the Orkneys.
Have a look into the list of prehistoric monuments - dolmens, 'stone circles' and villages - that have been found there.

 

Analysis of the pig bones found at 'Durrington Walls' (the annually re-used large temporary encampment which served as the 'HQ' for the Great Winter Feast whose 'celebration' was centred on Stonehenge) shows that people came there each year from all over these islands, including the Orkneys.
And it is now suspected that some of the stones at Stonehenge were brought there from the NE coast of Scotland that is near the Orkneys.

Also, the Orkneys have one native vole species. It is not descended from native British species, but rather from species in Guernsey and what is now Belgium. And it has been on the Orkneys since the Neolithic.

 

We now know that late-Neolithic Britain (c 5000-4000 years ago) housed a wholly-connected culture, which had lots of connections to the mainland of Europe.
And Amesbury (also near Stonehenge) contains the bones of a skeleton called the 'Amesbury archer' - a 'bell beaker' man who came to the Stonehenge area in the early Bronze age (c. 2300 BCE).
He grew up in an area of the Western Alps, and is thought to have come to the British Isles to seek healing of the godawful dental abscess that had rotted right through his lower jaw. And/or a posited ghastly knee wound (one of his patellas is missing).

(Although the younger 'companion' buried with him had grown up in Britain and the Western Alps.)

[LizEF]

24 minutes ago, Mercian said:

If you look back at the PM that I sent you about the blight with which Quin's father was plagued, how about that name/character...?

  I like it!  I'll have to change Celtic and Druid to something else, but I like it!  Perhaps our character will also have a "loyal brown hound".

[Mercian]

9 minutes ago, LizEF said:

  I like it!  I'll have to change Celtic and Druid to something else, but I like it!  Perhaps our character will also have a "loyal brown hound".

 

for the loyal brown hound!

 

Oh, I also recommend looking at 'the Mabinogion' - both for examples of Welsh names, and the wide range of magical stories within it.

 

E.g. Math and Gwydion magick-up a woman (Blodeuedd) out of flowers to be a wife for for the character Lleu Llaw Gyffes (whose mother has cursed him to "never have a wife from the race that is on the Earth at present").
Sadly, Blodeuedd proves to be unfaithful, tries to have Lleu killed, and is turned into an owl as punishment.
Study of the pronunciation guide is highly recommended - most of those names are not pronounced even remotely as they would be in English!

[LizEF]

54 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Study of the pronunciation guide is highly recommended - most of those names are not pronounced even remotely as they would be in English!

Most of those names could only be pronounced in English if you were in the midst of choking on your own tongue!

 

Thank you for the suggestions.  Whether the back of my brain will go there, I don't yet know.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Aaahhhhh!  I believe there is a teeny bit of sparkle detected in the micro.  This ink has possibilities.  And I have one cartridge!  Also had the Thornton.  
 

Red-violets are purdy.  Maybe I will ink up my Preppy!  
 

Dear @LizEF: You always make Tuesdays magical, and this time I am still kinda gripping the edge of my seat, though things appear to be moving in the right direction.

 

I always look forward to the review and story!  Keep 'em coming please.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Aaahhhhh!  I believe there is a teeny bit of sparkle detected in the micro.  This ink has possibilities.  And I have one cartridge!  Also had the Thornton. 

Yes, indeed, sparkly bits under the scope.  I think you need a very wet pen and sheen-showing paper to see it in writing, though.

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Red-violets are purdy.  Maybe I will ink up my Preppy!  

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Dear @LizEF: You always make Tuesdays magical, and this time I am still kinda gripping the edge of my seat, though things appear to be moving in the right direction.

Thank you! I promise, next week you can resume breathing.

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I always look forward to the review and story!  Keep 'em coming please.

Thanks!  Will do.

[InesF]

18 hours ago, LizEF said:

The images did not want to cooperate [...]

I love how magic is there in each and every detail of your ink review!

Magenta is a beautiful colour if it is saturated. I prefer it a bit darker, such as R&K Magenta or Iroshizuku Yama-budo. As I have both, no need to buy an ink drawer expansion! 👍

 

Thank you for the review, for the white cross-fade of the story and for healing Quins father. That's very kind of you, allowing Quin to wander and explore more of the world without worry about a family member! This intermediate chapter solution takes ... 🤫 ... al lot tension off ... 🤫 ... can it be that it was "so simple"? 😲 Oh @LizEF, what have you held back?

Now I'm completely hooked, can't wait patiently for next week's episode!  

[yazeh]

@Mercian Druids, so you have access to one of the potions made in Asterix and the big fight (I believe it that was one?)  @LizEF you can name the character Mercianix  

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, InesF said:

I love how magic is there in each and every detail of your ink review!

Magenta is a beautiful colour if it is saturated. I prefer it a bit darker, such as R&K Magenta or Iroshizuku Yama-budo. As I have both, no need to buy an ink drawer expansion! 👍

  Well, this ink isn't really magenta, it's just a magenta-like purple that doesn't like to be photographed or scanned...   But there's still probably no reason for the ink drawer expansion...

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you for the review, for the white cross-fade of the story and for healing Quins father.

You're most welcome!

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

That's very kind of you, allowing Quin to wander and explore more of the world without worry about a family member! This intermediate chapter solution takes ... 🤫 ... al lot tension off ... 🤫 ... can it be that it was "so simple"? 😲 Oh @LizEF, what have you held back?

Now I'm completely hooked, can't wait patiently for next week's episode!  

  Thank you!

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, yazeh said:

 @LizEF you can name the character Mercianix  

Perhaps yet another character, but @Mercian has been graciously gifting me with numerous very creative ideas for our Druid-like character, including the perfect name, in some PMs.  I'm looking forward to finding ways to implement Mercian's ideas into the story at some future point - my brain is alive with all sorts of ideas.