I did a little color adjusting, and on my monitor, they're pretty close. Manuscript Brown is a little redder here than it is in real life, although it does indeed appear quite red when wet. Once dry, it darkens up a bit. I'm really enjoying all three colors.

With flash:


Without flash:

Thank you! Ah, Starry Night is calling my name ...

Beautiful work, and excellent choice of pens for the inks.
Thanks a lot!
Alejandro

I really like the look of the group-designed bottles next to each other! Talk about collector's items! Too bad the labels are printed on a junky injet. Your ink will last for posterity, but the beautiful label probably won't!

Thanks for posting the scans, wackyjacky! I have to get used to the Tulipe Noire but I really like Starry, Starry Night so far. I've had Manuscript Brown since January and it's a very cool ink.

Nathan suggests coating the label with clear acrylic or lacquer.

Way cool photos! Thanks for posting them!

The first photo (not scan) is too orange/red. The second one is better, certainly more "impresionistically correct" if not accurate color. Looking at my sample under an OTT light, there is an orange-ish tone, but not red. But it is more brown than orange.

I just checked the calibration of my laptop LCD. If your JPEG was correct color in sRGB, then it would show correct on my screen.

--John
"The Calibrator"

Right, they're photos, not scans. (I don't know why I had the word "scan" stuck in my brain the day I made the post. )

Just for grins, here is a bona fide scan of the three inks. IMO, the color-adjusted photos are closer to the real thing than the scan (which is unadjusted). Maybe my monitor is a bit off?