I have searched through the forums for DIY Black-Blue recipe, but I have found only couple recipes... One stated mixing black and blue in 4:1 ratio, and several are made with adding other dyes than blue and black. I have the Parker Quink Black, and Parker Quink Blue, and I was wondering if anyone who cooks their own "moonshine" of black-blue can share their recipes using just these two colors...

So far im up to 10:1 blue with black ratio, and I'd still like a little lighter blue. Maybe 15:1???


thanx,
Nenad

I believe someone suggested adding a tad of violent / purple to a blue @ a 50/50 ratio.

However, I would also be interested to hear of blue-black recipes.

OK, I've pumped up the blue to 15 ratio. Now, at 15 to 1 blue black, it looks better... I will try it tomorrow on daylight to see the finished color...


Nenad

I've mixed a blue-black using PR Purple Haze, Lake Placid blue, and Skrip black in the following ratio 8:5:2. Used a hypodermic syringe to measure the inks. I mixed this up because I didn't like Purple Haze and thought I could use it as the base in a mix of something I'd use.

The prettiest blue-black mix I've seen on FPN is Aurora Blue with Aurora Black. I'd like to try that.

I made some blue-black by mixing equal amounts of Pelikan Blue, Pelikan Blue-Black and Pelikan Black and found it was too black, so I added a little Penman Sapphire (any intense bright blue would probably do).

The result was, to me, really good. A dark bluish black with good intensity. It had the added benefit of turning two small bottles of horrible, pale and disappointing inks (the blue and the blue-black) into one large bottle of something I can use at the cost of some black ink and a little precious Sapphire.

It is not a hundred miles from Diamine Prussian Blue, to my eyes.

Chris

I've mentioned this before around here, so sorry if you've read this twice already, but...

I'm using my own mix at the moment - Parker Quink Blue-Black, with Noodler's Eternal Black. It's quite heavily tilted towards the Quink (about 6:1), as the Noodler's is such a strong black that it doesn't take much to darken the mix quite a lot.

This gives me two nice results...

• A much darker shade than the usual Quink Blue-Black, which I like a lot.
• If it gets wet, the Quink washes away, leaving the Noodler's behind, quite readable.