I love the burnt sienna color of my Tombow dual tip pen but it is water-soluble, meaning that I can't add watercolor unless I want it to 'bleed'. So following some of Jane Blundell's charts for mixing De Atramentis document inks, I tried mixing a burnt sienna using document red and document black. I think it may need a touch of yellow added, but I don't have a bottle of that.
I recently bought a bottle of the document red from Goulet Pens . . . and as usual, they sent a mini Tootsie Pop with the ink. Here, I tried varying amounts of ink in some empty sample bottles.
I'm also trying out a new Lamy Safari limited edition coral pen. It came with a "M" nib but doesn't yet write smoothly. I've had some Lamy pens in the past that seemed a bit unresponsive at first --- using them over and over eventually breaks them in. Or I can easily replace the nib with one of my extras if this one persists in being stubborn.
I've been looking at these document inks, and remember a past post of your mentioning them before. I'm sitting on the fence, but may try them someday. Looks like you like them?
ReplyDeleteI really do prefer De Atramentis Document inks over others I've tried! So many color choices, all water-resistant, and I like being able to mix my own shades. Their black seems darker, more of a true black than Platinum Carbon black which in my experience dries to a dark charcoal. They perform like a dream in fountain pens -- never seem to stall or clog as Noodler's sometimes did.
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