Two greens from member Onion:

Green Onion: four parts PR Daphne Blue to one part Noodler's Kiowa Pecan, and maybe a little more Daphne Blue if needed.
(Moderator's suggestion: if mixing a small amount by eyedropper or disposable pipette for testing first, multiply by four so that if you add more Daphne Blue you can measure how much more you added.)

Bright Moss Green with a hint of yellow: Green Onion (without the extra Daphne Blue) plus four parts Noodler's Firefly.

original post

NeoTiger's Green-Black with shading from near-black to emerald green:

four parts PR Spearmint to one part Noodler's Black.

original post with photos

yarek's "blueen" mixes:

Waterman Green and Parker Quink Blue,
1:4,
1:2 and
1:1.

original post, with a photo

mikeyp's blue-black from Noodler's Eel/Polar (2006 revised formulae?) ingredients:

6.5 milliliters of Noodler's Eel Blue
with 4.0 milliliters of Noodler's Polar Black,
or 13 parts Eel Blue to 8 parts Polar Black.

Original post and his photo

<_<

So I too fell prey to the Private Reserve Mix kit....

Took Noodler's Fox Red and Noodler's Bulletproof Black....

6 parts Fox Red

1 Part Black...

The result: Almost a "Black-Purple" sometimes the shaded areas (using a stub nib) go a little lighter... I like it.

I wanted a "BulletProof Recipe", since I got my Pilot Vanishing Point, I started 'Journaling' again for the first time in a few years... I wanted the ink to be of a permanent nature.



Regards,

Bob Keene

"I don't have A-D-D, I have K-I-D-S....."

Eggplant
This waterproof mix is obtained by combining 7 parts Noodlers Iraqi Indigo to 2 parts Noodlers Zhivago. An ink review with photos has been posted.

Stephen

Another eggplant:

Private Reserve Tanzanite 80%
Quink black 20%

Or 4:1, whatever you prefer. Or if you want to have more controll over the endresult, start with some Tanzanite and add black to it with tiny bits.


Blue with vintage feel to it:
(NB!My Waterman BB is light green when it dies. I'm not sure W BB is supposed to look like that.)

Waterman Bue/Black 60%
Aurora blue 40%

This color is close to waterman florida blue but like I said, with a bit more vintage old fasioned feel to it. It fades overnight like the W. blue/black. You can add just a touch of black to it to make it darker.

Some undefined grey/blue/purple/very dark color:
All my experimented ink put together to see if it would react to eachother .
FTR:
Waterman blue/black+Aurora Blue+Quink black+PR Tanzanite.

This is going to sound kinda gross..... I've been trying to make an ink mix that looks like dired blood..... so far... it's just not quite right..... but I'll keep working on it.... and post a recipie when I figure it out.......


Hey.... it might be usefull for Halloween..........

1. Parker Ocean Deep Blue:

I was searching for the ideal Blue Black color and decided to try my own mixing skills. A ratio of 1:10 Parker Quink Black to Quink Blue makes awesome Blue Black. Deep rich color, due to the Qionk's Blue great color quality. By increasing the Quink Blue ratio to 1:15 - 1:17, I got very nice dark blue, the Parker Ocean Deep Blue


2. Pelikan Burgundy On Ice

I have the Pelikan Royal Blue (4001) and the Pelikan Red. They are both kinda washed out, especially the Red. The Blue is kinda nice, in M to B nibs, and wet writers, and when dry has a nice pleasant light blue color, with a hint of purple, which is way more pronounced when writing, until dry. I dislike this...

But by mixing equal quantities of the Pelikan Royal Blue, and Pelikan Red, the product is pleasant Burgundy On Ice color, better than the original colors, anyways... I haven't played with the ratios though, there might be other better ratio combinations of these inks...


cheers,
Nenad

Magic Midnight Mix

PR Midnight Blues has a faintly discernible teal shading, while PR Black Magic Blue definitely tends toward purplish. (See attached image, in which this should be visible if your monitor is reasonably well-calibrated.) A 1:1 mix of PR Midnight Blues and Black Magic Blue yields a rich blue-black with more purely blue shading.

Cheers.

Blue Lapis

I had two bottles of Noodlers which were not my favorites - Legal Lapis which was too green/teal for me and Regular Blue which was more turquoise for me. I combined the two and got a great color which I'm really liking.

The Noodlers Blue brings out the bluish parts of LL and it's not as saturated so there is some good shading. It also doesn't "spread" on the paper with a wet writer - like straight LL.

The LL brings the super smooth flow and darkens the Blue.

2 parts Noodlers Blue
1 part Noodlers Legal Lapis

Edited to add pictures (I apologize for poor pictures)



For contrast, here's three other blues:

Vibrant luxury blue:

My blue mix: 50% Noodlers luxury blue+25% Waterman Florida blue + 25% Waterman south seas blue. A nice dark turquoise blue, waterproof.

The same, after soaking under the tap:

I'm glad I can post this right after fjf's contribution. His recipe was my inspiration to look for a bulletproof blue that has the power and saturation and intensity close to PR DC Supershow blue with a hint of purple like Waterman Florida blue.

I came up with "Super Lux" blue (named as a take-off of the two main ink ingredients). It consists of:

50% Noodler Luxury blue (Noodler Swisher Glacier blue works just as well)
25% PR DC SuperShow blue (American blue works great too)
25% PR Tanzanite

Here is the water dunk test

nice

My first attempt at an ink recipe - a case of "necessity is the mother of invention".

If you've got gall, you'll enjoy this one .

Periwinkle


http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=38395

Here's a link to Taki's recipe:

Glacier Blue & Tanzanite

Link to Color Wheel, Mixed Samples, and ink mixing info:

Noodler's CMYK color mixes

"orpheus blue-black":

Waterman Black: Waterman Florida Blue: distilled water

(1:2:2:)

Result is a very dark blue-black with good shading (IMO similar to Sailor blue-black). The distilled water seems to speed drying time and prevent smearing when dry.

I don't have PR American Blue, but I can get a very nice royal blue by mixing Noodler's blue with a bit of PR Tanzanite. It looks similar to DC Supershow blue and Penman Sapphire, judging by the scans online. I did it by accident, actually. I was too lazy to clean out my pen after using Tanzanite and I filled it with Noodler's blue, and I got a nicer looking, darker blue.

Used FP in grade school, got a Waterman FP 17 yrs ago and stopped using, now is a joy to practice with different inks.

Aquired vitage Parker Quink royal blue washable, Skrip permanent blue black, and Noodler white whale. Mixed WW generous 1/2 tsp to 1/2 oz Quink =washed out blue to my eyes. Less WW 1/4tsp to 1/2oz Skrip not really impressive. Mixed both mixtures together and like it. Darker purple black.
jim

It seems that all the bulletproof blues are kind of dull. I don't often use blue but when I do, I mix up 50/50 Glacier Blue and PR American Blue. I call the result American Glacier. It's vivid enough and if it gets wet it will lose the vividness, but the dull blue that remains is bulletproof.

My first mix experiment turned out pretty nicely if you ask me:

Very Dark Violet
5 parts Private Reserve Arabian Rose
1 part Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue

It is definitely a violet color when you look at it in liquid form, but it seems to go down on paper as a very dark ink with just a bit of violet/purple coloring if you look carefully. If this works as well in a medium as it does in the fine nibbed testing pen I'm using, I might just sneak this into court and use it because I imagine I'm the only one who will notice the non-conformist shading.

This is also a lesson in just how much a darker ink can tint a lighter one. My next mix with these colors will either be 20:1 or 10:1.

My first:
Semi Brilliant Green
1/3 Swisher Lakeshore Spruce
2/3 Pelikan Brilliant Green

The Swisher mix is a bit conservative for my taste. I like the Brilliant Green but wanted some waterproofness just in case.

This gives a nice green with some variation. I did a quick water test and the Pelikan green pretty much washed away but there is enough of the Spruce left to still read it.

I doubt this is Bullet Proof as Noodler's defines it but it should be disaster proof.

When I didn't have Waterman Florida Blue, I created something similar with

1/2 Waterman Violet
1/2 Waterman South Sea Blue

Sometimes I used up to 2/3 of violet and it gave nice blue color.

I just tried this out (it is Cedar Fever season here in Central Texas and I am having a bit of trouble sleeping):

1/3 Noodler's Upper Ganges eternal blue
2/3 Noodler's American Eel Turquoise


Like my previous mix, water takes the non-eternal ink out of the paper but leaves the permanent.

If you happen to like the tuquoise, the mix is a little less turquoise; closer to a clear blue. This mix is rather closer to the color of the non-permanent ink than my previous mix. To my eye, the two colors are closer together than the two greens in my previous mix.

One of these days I'll figure out just how little permanent is required to still be able to read the original.

"BB Proof" Dark Blue.

3 parts Noodler's Aircorps Blue Black
2 parts Noodlers's Le Coleuer Royal

Makes a very dark blue ink with almost no shading and gray undertones. Not the fastest drying stuff in the work, either.

Running it under water produces substantial fade, but the lettering never goes completely away.

Ooo, an ink color thread!

Many of my inks are from J Herbin (would love to collect them all, and they're my favorite bottles as far as shape goes). I have a few Sheaffer (HATE the bottle! but their gold, gray and burgundy are nice colors) and a couple of Fahrney's (they have a copper ink that's really beautiful) and Waterman's blue-black and Florida blue. Then there's the Quink washable blue....

I'm on a blue kick now, and mixing some custom blues. For someone so tech-y, I failed to note the amounts (mainly because I was using up old Lamy ink, from another bottle shape I hate, and adding bits of this and that).

My Test Sheet with all my blue inks, custom or otherwise, has about a dozen samples. In the future I'll have to keep better records, because the color I dubbed Neu Bleu is purdy.

Blue-green
since I was in chemical engineering school I made my own type of ink

about 0.1g of MethyleneBlue
Dissolve in 50ml of alcohol
Filter in a whatman paper #5 (coffee filter should be fine) to get the grit out

Dissolve the resulting to 100-150 ml with water depending on the shade.

I'll try to get my paws in some more Mthylene blue to replicate this and post a sample

My Favorite Blue

It's not only stunningly beatiful , but also works great for any problematic writer, I'd call it a laxative ink that "detox" your clogged nibs.

2 parts of Private Reserve Daphne Blue
1 part of Private Reserve Tanazanite

Mix it up and drink to my health. No, silly me, just use your dipping pen to try it out. Don't you have a dipping pen yet? My favorites are glass dipping pens from isellpens.com (2.99, are you out of you mind?).

The best way to cook new shades of inks is by mixing them in a wine glass. And then you can play that "wine tasting" game by watching "legs". Private Reserves create best mixers.

I don't play much with Noodler's, their colors are so close to perfection that the only way I can do something new is by dropping some black Noodler's into their original colors.

On my avatar picture, I got that perfect Pinot Noir color in my ink-tasting wine glass by adding some drops of Noodler's Black Bulletproof American Eel to Noodler's Cactus Fruit American Eel.

I have just realized how much respect I have for Nathan. I have to change my profile - he is the one whom I adore the most nowdays.

My Faux Penman Sapphire #2.

I had a #1, but it wasn't quite right.

I have been wanting to make a replacement for Parker Penman Sapphire Blue, using currently available inks.
I started off by using Sanford inks (Quink and Waterman), but I wasn't able to get the saturation deep enough.
This has taken some time to get right, because I was using a paper that was supposedly acid-free, but it wasn't. What looked right in the evening was off-colour by the morning.

Looking at my various blues, it seemed that Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue (which is said to have been made to replace Penman Sapphire) had the right intensity, but it was too blue. My real Penman Sapphire was a tad darker, and had a touch of green.

So, I start with 10 drops of Lake Placid Blue, add one drop of Parker Quink Blue-Black (Current stock, no Solv-X) to darken the blue, and 2 drops of Waterman Green to add the green tinge.

Bingo! Using similar pens with similar fine nibs, it was almost impossible to tell the difference. I then doubled the amount, filled a pen, and confirmed the colour.

So, here is my recipe for Faux Penman Sapphire --

Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue - 10 units
Waterman Green - 2 units
Parker Quink Blue-Black - 1 unit.

I would like to see if others get the same result I did, and if anybody has any modifications.

Enjoy!

The Elusive Black Whale or Bulletproof Tulipe Noire
3 parts Tulipe Noire & 2 parts Whiteness of Whale

Writing Sample below:



The fine writing is in Bulletproof Noire (Prera - Fine Nib)

Just finished my first foray into ink mixing. Found 2 mixes I'd use often and a really weird mix.

10:3 Private Reserve Blue Suede to Black Magic Blue produces a medium-dark blue that reminds me of a dusky blue.

5:1 Noodler's Antietam to Old Manhattan Black produces a nice chocolate brown, but can also dry as a rusty red. I think a little more black is needed...

70% diluted Private Reserve Orange Crush mixed roughly 10:3 with Blue Suede produces an odd green color somewhere around a dark lime green, but the more Orange Crush you add the darker the ink dries and the more orange you can see. The result is a green ink that dries with hints of orange in it. The wetter the line, the darker the green, and the lighter the line the more you can detect the orange. My roommate thought it was really interesting and couldn't put his finger on what make it look weird, so maybe not everyone can see the orange. It's a strangely unique color that I hope to experiment with later.

A slightly darker Turquoise.

1:1, Noodler's Navajo Turquoise and 4001 Royal Blue. -sometimes I add a bit of standard green, depending on my mood.

Noodler's Ink Legal Blue (Art Brown exclusive) provides same effect out-of-the-bottle. In addition it is totally bullet-proof instead of being a mix of bullet-proof and non-bulletproof ink.

Electric Lapis:


2 Parts Noodler's Legal Lapis
1 Part PR DC Electric Blue
1 Part PR Flannel Gray

Adds a nice bump up to the blue, while keeping the shading well.

"Abigail Rose" or "Dead Roses"

Noodlers Fox Red and Bulletproof Black 10:1

I've named my Fox Red/Black combination 'Abigail Rose,' after my sister-in-law who fancies herself a Gothic poet. It is a very brooding, angstful color. I feel like I'm writing with bottled hate. Try it next time you correspond with your ex-wife/landlord/mother-in-law. I might also suggest the name 'Dead Roses' for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of meeting my sister-in-law.

Plus, like all good hatred, it's Eternal!

Cheers,

Will

My Faux Penman Sapphire #2b.

I haven't been quite happy with my original version of Faux Penman Sapphire #2, so I have been tweaking the mix a little.
This is my current version of Faux Penman Sapphire --

Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue - 40 units
Waterman Green - 8 units
Parker Quink Blue-Black - 5 unit.

This gives the results as shown below


You can see that the Faux Penman Sapphire #2b is pretty much the same hue as the real Parker Penman Sapphire, just a tad lighter. However, the photo makes the difference greater than it appears on real paper. This might be improved if I used PR American Blue rather than PR Lake Placid Blue.

One strange thing I found was that the feathering and bleeding properties of the PR Lake Placid Blue were improved in this mix.

O noez! Is teh Bucket down again?

I thought this sounded interesting so I gave it a try.
I started with 9 parts Noodler blue and 1 part Legal lapis.
then increased the amount of Legal lapis.

I also tried soaking the paper for about 30 minutes

Paper is generic 20lb multipurpose copy paper
and pen is a williams mitchell #6 roundhand dip pen nib.

If the attachment ever get deleted, the scan is also available here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/superbleu/Foun...287076438131938

How do you get a pen with a big nib to fill from a Herbin bottle? I really want to know, because I love the inks, but seem to have to decant a couple of the demi bottles into a larger bottle saved from some other ink. That does lose some ink, and I have to waste the stuff.

I've been doing some mixing as I've not yet found that "perfect" ink.

1 part Noodler's Polar Blue with 1 part Noodler's Lexington Gray creates a very nice powdery, ethereal blue.

I've also mixed a good "dried blood" which contains some Noodler's Tienanmen Red, some Caran d'ache Grand Canyon brown and an accidental tiny bit of Noodler's Aircorps Blue-Black. I just kind of threw it all together so I have no idea what the proportions are, unfortunately.

I can scan pictures of the latter if anyone is interested.

I don't! ^^

This is where our friend the syringe comes in handy.

Patrick Hand -
Are you still searching for a dried blood color ?
I always thought that was the same as maroon.

Mixing burgundy and black doesn't work ?...or burgundy, brown, and black ?

I think I'd like to use a bright Orange ink for Halloween.

Oh, btw---pen with big nib---never ocurred to me that it wasn't a cart-filler. I have filled some Hero pens with J Herbin ink by dropping a small amount of ink in something a friend sent me which looks like a ceramic thimble. Put in enough ink to raise the level past the pen's feed mechanism and fill away.

A shot glass might work, but since it's wider you would need more ink to fill it.

My "dried blood" recipe - 1/4 PR Black Cherry + 3/4 Noodler's Red (the ordinary kind)

My favorite color is a green gold --- I have found that if I add one or two drop of black into J.Herbins Olive I get the color of my dreams