[Anne-Sophie]

Ink mix recipes (may take a while to gather them)

Incompatible mixes

Maja
Posted: Oct 20 2005, 11:45 PM

Private Reserve's Tangerine Dream ®, Candy Apple Red ®, Hot Bubble Gum ®---all discontinued now--- had problems when they were mixed with other inks (and each other), if I recall correctly. Yep, it says so on Greg Clark's 'Ink Sampler' page on PR Inks (near the bottom of the page).....


Mixing Noodlers black with Zhivago

woodwindmaster06
Posted on Oct 21 2005, 01:03 PM

I have mixed Noodlers black with my Zhivago and had really good results also I needed a ton of black to make a difference! I wonder if I had pelikan black or a more saturated black if it would make a bigger difference.


Noodler's/Swishmix

Roger
Posted: Oct 4 2005, 02:28 PM
in "my ink inventory" post

Burgundy-------------Noodler's/Swishmix
Glacier Blue----------Noodler's/Swishmix


Darkening Eternal Brown
in"do you mix ink" post

tburke0
Posted on Jan 28 2005, 02:38 PM

Just today I mixed my first recipe. I thought Eternal Brown would be a darker brown. Straight-up it's quite reddish, so I mixed it 10:1 with black to get the walnut shade I was after...


mixing Eel inks Rattler Red and the blue=Purple

Leslie J.
Posted on Jan 30 2005, 02:07 PM
In "do you mix ink Post"

Well, I'm waiting for my next ink fix right now. I will be mixing Eel inks. drool.gif That's partly why I ordered the Rattler Red and the blue. Might make an interesting purple in there. I've yet to have a pen self-destruct from an ink mix, and mixing two from the same company is probably safe enough. You only live the once! tongue.gif


'stone soup' brown
Tytyvyllus
Posted on Jan 30 2005, 05:56 PM
In "do you mix ink Post"

The only ink I do mix now is a 'stone soup' brown that consists of pretty much every brown ink I've used. When a brown ink bottle gets low it gets dumped into that bottle. So it's an average of many colors and is quite nice.


Ink mixing 101, do and don't

KCat
Posted on Jan 30 2005, 07:22 PM
In "do you mix ink Post"

i've had one precip problem and that was with NOS Skrip red in a mix. Of course, there are the Do-Not-Mix inks that Private Reserve used to make, Candy Apple Red, Orange Crush, Hot Bubble Gum... and I think there was one other but can't be sure. Since they can still be found on shelves, people need to be aware that they shouldn't be mixed with other inks. I did test this once with HBG. It's true. smile.gif

otherwise, i've mixed Herbin with Omas and PR with Omas and Levenger with just about everything and so on. I think it's wise that if it's a highly saturated ink, test drive the mix either in a cheap pen or let the mix sit for a few days in a container to make sure there's no precip.


the Do-Not-Mix inks that Private Reserve used to make and 2 recipes for Orange

mchristi
Posted on Jan 30 2005, 07:43 PM
In "do you mix ink Post"

I thought that there were three that could not be mixed: Candy Apple Red, Tangerine Dream, and Hot Bubble Gum. Orange Crush is still available, and I don't believe it has any mixing problems.

I successfully mixed Orange Crush and Fiesta Red to make a deep orange/red color. Adding some Buttercup lightens it a bit, and makes it a bit more like a orange/red fall leaf color.


A"Cedar Blue"with no recipe

Denis Richard
Posted on Jan 31 2005, 01:58 PM
In "do you mix ink Post"

Just mixed an interesting color, which I call "Cedar Blue", as it is very very close to the color of my Blue Cedar "51". smile.gif


Darkest Green Zhivago and Noodler Black

woodwindmaster06
Posted on Sep 26 2005, 11:46 AM
In "do you mix ink Post"

Yesterday I did my first ink mixing: I felt the Zhivago to be a little on the bright side so I put my pr ink mixing kit to use for the first time and put 15 ml of the Zhivago and about 1.5 ml of the noodlers black ink.
It creates one of the greatest darkest greens imaginable, I wonder what more black would of done to it??? How much is too much.

So I had a very positive first experience with ink mixing.

[wimg]

Place holder for Ink Recipes, as per request by our members...

A request to all of our members with a special interest for ink recipes: please be so kind to search for any ink recipes, and add the links to a reply message in this topic, so that we can make this first post the "article" that will contain them all, for ease of use.

I would appreciate it if the recipes include the original poster´s name, date, and the link to the original thread, so that people could jump there if they want more information. This link shows in the address bar of the browser.
Select it, copy it, click the "http://"-button, paste the link, enter, enter a title for the link in the next window, and press enter again. That´ll do the trick.

TIA, warm regards, Wim

P.S.: Anne-Sophie, thank you for your initial search. I added your thread to this one in the mean time, and I´ll try to sort things out further this weekend.

This post has been edited by wimg: 18 November 2005 - 12:00 PM

[Roger]

Lapindigo. A 50/50 mix of Noodler's Legal Lapis and Iraqi Indigo.

The mix by Viseguy -- posted by Roger June 04, 2005

Lapindigo Mix

[KCat]

i just want to stress that I did mispeak on Orange Crush and as mchristi pointed out it was Tangerine Dream that was not mixable. OC is fine to mix.

latest mix though it's a bit odd: 1 part Penman Mocha, 2 parts Copper Burst, 1 part J. Herbin. this makes an interesting and good flowing sepia color. But i hope to replace it with a ready made ink because Mocha is discontinued and not one I want to "waste" on mixes.

I found Levenger Cocoa to be too fast flowing and tended to feather. So in general I recommend it for speeding up a dark brown mix that might otherwise be dry-writing. I'd say it is the Tanzanite of Brown inks.

[M4R1N4]

Quote

latest mix though it's a bit odd: 1 part Penman Mocha, 2 parts Copper Burst, 1 part J. Herbin. this makes an interesting and good flowing sepia color.

KCat, which J Herbin did you use? Am I reading this wrong? I have been looking for a nice brown and haven't found it yet, but wasn't sure which Herbin to use with the Copper Burst and Penman mocha.

Do you have a sample you can post? If it is handy that is..


Marina.

[Sidney]

Gerry's Indigo by ElaineB

[Sidney]

Cassis by ElaineB

[Sidney]

Garnet by ElaineB

[KCat]

M4R1N4, on Nov 18 2005, 03:40 PM, said:

Do you have a sample you can post? If it is handy that is..


Marina.

duh...

J. Herbin Amber. Too light on it's own (for me) but gave the ink a nice golden shade. I'll post a pic soon. I *intend* to take some pics tomorrow of various things. including my pens and my first Hardanger project.

[KCat]

Sidney, on Nov 18 2005, 06:27 PM, said:

Garnet by ElaineB

that's so purdy. (swoon)

[Gerry]

Sidney, on Nov 18 2005, 07:24 PM, said:

Gerry's Indigo by ElaineB

And you have my warmest thanks Elaine. I have aquired all the appropriate Waterman inks, and am using my own Indigo Blue regularly. Thanks so much.

There are a couple of very attractive Greens that you sent as well.

Gerry

This post has been edited by Gerry: 19 November 2005 - 03:32 AM

[Sonnet]

Found this mix by accident: Mixing some Private Reserve American Blue with PR Sherwood Green makes for an interesting, very-hard-to-describe "teal" color. Very pretty.

Also, Levenger's Pinkly can be added to most blue inks to create a nice purple.

[Ann Finley]

Noodler's Waterproof Goldfinch recipes:

To get the "butterscotch" mix that is shown in the ink review, mix:
5 ml Goldfinch
1/2 ml Naval Orange
7 drops Eternal Brown

To get the "caramel" mix that is shown in the ink review, mix:
3 ml Goldfinch
1 ml Eternal Brown
NOTE: This one will be slightly browner that what the scan picked up.

As you'll note from the ink review, the nib you're using can make a world of difference in the color you see, and the paper can make a difference, too, but I think not as much as the nib.

[Chris]

I cannot claim the original idea for this blue-black but I did modify it slightly.

Pelikan Blue-Black +

1 big part Pelikan blue-black (a bit wishy-washy)
1 bigger part Pelikan (or Cross) blue (also wishy-washy)
1 small part Pelikan brilliant black (nice black)
about a third part Penman Sapphire

The result is a nice blue-black that has some old-fashioned shading but a depth of colour not to be found in the blue or blue-black ink I used to make it. The depth of blue can be increased by adding the Sapphire (hence the + in the title).

But, I found that Diamine Prussian Blue was actually what I'd been trying to create and it is available out of the bottle! So, I won't be mising any more when this little lot is gone.

Chris

[emrecan]

Hi,
Is it possible to get a color like PR American Blue at home?

Thanks
Emrecan

This post has been edited by emrecan: 24 November 2005 - 01:17 PM