My bottled browns

[drifting]

I made up some colour test cards with all the bottled ink I currently have on hand, and I thought I'd throw up some scans of the results. I don't know how to do colour correction, but these look pretty good on my monitor, though the Cacao du Brésil isn't quite this gray - it is very cool, but like very dark chocolate.

 

I cut the cards from an old artist's pad with heavy slightly off-white paper. The first two or three lines are done with a dip pen, the final two are done with a glass pen, and the smear is done with a q-tip.

 

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/seouldrifting/Browns.jpg

 

Ryan.

[Peter from Sherwood Park]

Great post -- thank you for this!

[drifting]

Great post -- thank you for this!

 

Thanks, Peter!

 

It's funny, but I knew the Havana, Red-black, and even Walnut were similar, but I never knew how similar until I put them side by side like this. Looking at these test cards has almost convinced me I don't need to buy Diamine Saddle Brown.

 

Ryan.

[Gran]

Lovely comparisons. Thanks very much.

[cmeisenzahl]

VERY nice work, thanks!!!

[Jared]

Excellent scans. I'm not familiar with the Windsor & Newton inks, but the color of the Sepia looks quite interesting.

 

 

[drifting]

I'm not familiar with the Windsor & Newton inks, but the color of the Sepia looks quite interesting.

 

It's a calligraphy ink most suitable for dip pens. The bottle insists it's fine for fountain pens, but not so much.

 

Ryan.

[Pippin60]

Great thank you. I've been wanting to try Noodlers walnut. I didn't know Noodlers red Black was a brown ink, I will have to add it to my list. I use a lot of browns for journaling, Mostly Sepia's and Sienna's.

[Yoda]

This is fantastic. Do you have access to PR Chocolat? I would love to see how it compares to the others.

[drifting]

I didn't know Noodlers red Black was a brown ink, I will have to add it to my list.

 

The funny thing is, I had never really thought of it as a brown until I did this, because I do notice the distinct red and black components on the page. But I had read other FPNers comparing it to Havana, so I was interested to see how close they would prove to be in real life. I made up the cards, and hey, presto!, it looks like a brown! I guess I'd never had Red-black and Havana in pens at the same time, so I hadn't made the connection. And to be honest, I haven't inked a pen with Red-black in quite a while!

 

I use a lot of browns for journaling, Mostly Sepia's and Sienna's.

 

sigh I've recently been trawling the Ink Reviews forum for Sepias and Siennas (R&K, Diamine, Visconti) even though, clearly, I don't really need any more brown ink. I've drawn a line in the sand and decided that I need to use up 10 bottles of ink before I will allow myself to buy any more. We'll see how that shakes out!

 

Ryan.

 

ps. Which your Sepias/Siennas are your favorites?

 

[drifting]

Do you have access to PR Chocolat? I would love to see how it compares to the others.

 

Nope, sorry. And don't go putting any ideas into my head!

 

Ryan.

[bbs]

Do you have access to PR Chocolat? I would love to see how it compares to the others.

 

Nope, sorry. And don't go putting any ideas into my head!

 

Ryan.

 

 

Drat, that was just what I was going to request!

[someonesdad]

I love FPN brown; it would be interesting to see it in the scans too. But wonderful job!

[drifting]

I love FPN brown; it would be interesting to see it in the scans too. But wonderful job!

 

You know, I ordered and paid for a bottle of the very first offering of FPN brown, but it never made it across the border. I never followed up because I was juggling about a billion more important things at the time, and it seemed like the member who was doing the order fulfillment (Brian, maybe?) was, too. I ended up being away from FPN for a couple of years, and this is the first time I've really thought about that bottle of Galileo since getting back on the board. Huh.

 

Ryan.

[drifting]

Adding search/index friendliness:

Windsor and Newton Sepia

Noodlers Walnut

Waterman Havana

Noodlers Red-black

J. Herbin Cacao du Brésil

J. Herbin Lie de Thé

Pelikan Brilliant Brown

[macthemaths]

Thanks - indexed.