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For the sake of completeness - and not out of any kind of love for this shade of ink! - here is Toucan Primrose. It's the palest of inks in the range, legible but just barely (and again, only using the wettest of pens). If you love yellow inks, this may well be right up your alley - and I will make no prejudgments as to your sanity!

 

Like the rest of the inks in this range, Primrose is very well-behaved on reasonable quality paper - I did, unfortunately, smear this in a few places, but in my defense it was a little hard to see where the ink was and wasn't on the page!! It's a little paler than this in 'real life' - I suspect its two main uses will be (1) mixing your own colours (in a CMYK mixing kit, this would be the 'Y'), and (2) maybe as a highlighter ink - though I'd probably throw in a dash of 'Bright Green' to 'sex it up' a little...

 

Only available in Australia at present (and NZ, sorry I keep forgetting my Kiwi compatriots!), with www.justwrite.com.au the main (sole?) distributor. Any questions, feel free to ask - and I'll answer if I can!

 

This is my last review in this series - now I have to decide whether to review some of my other inks, but most of them (I think) already have a few reviews up here on FPN, so... We'll see. If you've trawled through all of these reviews... Thank you for your forbearance - and next time you're in the land of Aus (Downunder), why not place an order?

 

 

 

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Very nice!

 

I think we may need to a CYMK style mixing chart.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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JustWrite do sell an Ink Mixing Kit - Cyan (Turquoise), Magenta, Yellow (Primrose) and Black.

I have a set, and haven't really started playing with them yet.

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I was thinking we should do a chart like this:

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_j-v9C2Pm9uA/TIWiOVu3MXI/AAAAAAAACRY/FlH7lgnMk_E/s1600/NoodlersCMYKchart100.jpg

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JustWrite do sell an Ink Mixing Kit - Cyan (Turquoise), Magenta, Yellow (Primrose) and Black.

I have a set, and haven't really started playing with them yet.

 

Does the mixing kit come with a colour chart? I asked Kevin ('Mr JustWrite') about this a couple of times, but my impression is that Tintex don't have anything like that available. There's a kind of 'colour wheel' on their website somewhere (or their was), but I'm a bit of a dunce and didn't find that it was all that useful to me!

 

The mixing kit is only useful (IMHO) if you want to do most of your mixing from the four 'basic' colours in the range - only two of which (cyan/turquoise and black) are particularly usable unmixed. Not to mention the fact that you only get 5ml of each - nice for experimentation, but that's about it! I admit, I probably went overboard buying a 60ml bag of each ink - I'll probably NEVER get through the primrose or gold, and my kids'll be grown up before they've used up the magenta (= pink), turquoise and black inks - but at AU$63 for the lot, it was still cheaper than buying two 30 ml bottles of Caran d'Ache - and only $10 more than buying two 62ml bottles of Omas ink from the same supplier!

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@amberleadavis, looks great - I've been really hesitant to do any more than dabble with mixing, because I 'lacked guidance' - and truth be told, Art was the one subject I came closest to failing during my high school years (technically, I'm not sure Art teachers were ALLOWED to fail anyone...).

 

Do you think Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale would mix OK with these inks?

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I was thinking we should do a chart like this:

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_j-v9C2Pm9uA/TIWiOVu3MXI/AAAAAAAACRY/FlH7lgnMk_E/s1600/NoodlersCMYKchart100.jpg

 

Note to self - buy water colour palette plate from Dollar Shop.

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@amberleadavis, looks great - I've been really hesitant to do any more than dabble with mixing, because I 'lacked guidance' - and truth be told, Art was the one subject I came closest to failing during my high school years (technically, I'm not sure Art teachers were ALLOWED to fail anyone...).

 

Do you think Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale would mix OK with these inks?

 

 

I wouldn't mix WoW with any inks. Mostly because I don't like chalky colors and WoW makes any other inks chalky. That being said, I use Ghost Blue as my mixing base. Read up on the mixes that don't work thread. I almost laughed myself silly at the description of one of the black inks mixed with WoW.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Note to self - buy water colour palette plate from Dollar Shop.

 

Exactly.

I considered using an ice cube tray. One of the threads around here has more pictures including the drops for mixing.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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I wouldn't mix WoW with any inks. Mostly because I don't like chalky colors and WoW makes any other inks chalky. That being said, I use Ghost Blue as my mixing base. Read up on the mixes that don't work thread. I almost laughed myself silly at the description of one of the black inks mixed with WoW.

 

Fair enough - in any case (as DavidW has already indicated), most of these inks don't really need to get LESS saturated.

 

[On that score, I have to confess, I initially wasn't 'sold' on these inks for that very reason - they just didn't seem strong and vibrant enough to me. But in my early samples, which you can see on another part of this site, I was mostly using recycled Pilot V-Pens (Varsities), which have a wick feed - and in my limited experience, the VPen wick feeds seem to seriously desaturate any ink that touches them! They ARE less saturated inks - but you CAN COMPENSATE by using a wetter pen, and/or a less absorbent paper.]

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