Platinum Mix Free Ink Recipes

[ethernautrix]

No No! No!!

I have have enough trouble keeping my OCD in check with a single bottle of ink. (And some know what happens when I do something so simple as mix water with ink.)

Reckless enablers! Abandon all hope!!

kushbaby was right again - the Zombie Apocalypse is nigh!!!

Eeek!

 

 

I wish you could have been at Pen Posse yesterday. I named the three mixes that Ricky gave me Ruby Red Grapefruit, Picnic Lawn, and Sunday Afternoon Blue Skies -- lovely colors all. The yellow gives the mixed inks a lovely glow....

[JonSzanto]

Anyone else notice how the test gradually became more formalized and codified has he went along? Altec has really put the scientist back into Mad Scientist.

 

http://www.metrolic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mad_scientist.jpg

 

True Burnt Umber! A-ha-ha-haaaaa!!!

Edited July 12, 2011 by JonSzanto

[AltecGreen]

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[radellaf]

Do you think the 9 ink set can make any colors that aren't mixable with a straight CMYK set of other inks?

 

I saw one place selling Navajo Turquoise, Shah's Rose, Yellow, and maybe Borealis in a kit with syringes and empty vials.

 

Generally in a printer you only need more colors to either reduce total amount of ink to make a particular color (important for a printer, irrelevant for pens), or to expand gamut by adding a secondary [R,G,B] that's more intense than the 2-ink mix.

 

Still, it'd be fun to buy the Platinum kit to be able to "play along" with the recipes here.

Edited July 13, 2011 by radellaf

[jonro]

What Platinum should do is to write a program that would allow you to do Pantone color matching with their inks. Just pick a color and it would tell you which inks to mix and the quantities.

[xiewadu]

Do you think the 9 ink set can make any colors that aren't mixable with a straight CMYK set of other inks?

I'm curious about this, too!

- Jen

[jgrasty]

I did a little ink mixing today with Platinum Mix Free Silky Purple and Leaf Green. I used a watercolor plastic pallet to mix the inks, and a q-tip to swab the colors. I found that the plastic syringes that come with the kit are capable of quite uniform drops if you go slowly. I wanted to give some variation from a 1:1 mix. I started with 4 drops of Silky Purple (SP) and added 1 drop of Leaf Green (LG), then 4 drops of SP and 2 drops of LG, etc. You get the idea.

 

Some of the samples resemble some well known inks. SP 4 LG 3 looks quite close to J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune, SP 1 LG 4 looks pretty similar to Private Reserve Ebony Green, and SP 4 LG 2 is pretty close to Noodler's La Reine Mauve. Noodler's Kung Te-Ching could probably be duplicated pretty closely somewhere between SP 3 LG 4 and SP 4 LG 4.

 

Here's the results:

 

http://bettygrastymd.com/jgrasty/wp-content/uploads/mix-free-sp-lg.jpg

 

I had hoped to duplicate Noodler's Baystate Concord Grape, but none of these was very close to that vibrant Noodler's color.

 

This is a lot of fun and it took only a few minutes.

[meowmda]

I love your scientific layout, AltecGreen!

 

As simple as it seems, I really like the 2 Leafy Green / 1 Earth Brown combo. It's like a Dark Olive. I've only run it through one pen so far. I don't have the special dilutant, and I didn't add any water. In a pretty wet Medium nib this seemed to flow very well.

 

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale; 4 Whale / 2 Silky Purple / 2 Smoke Black. It's been 14 hours, and no weird reaction, but I am waiting at least 24 just in case. I tested it using a dip pen and I like it. Need to finesse it a little, but I am trying to create my ideal creamy Purple ink.

[Mrsal]

im loving the color samples!

[xiewadu]

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale; 4 Whale / 2 Silky Purple / 2 Smoke Black. It's been 14 hours, and no weird reaction, but I am waiting at least 24 just in case. I tested it using a dip pen and I like it. Need to finesse it a little, but I am trying to create my ideal creamy Purple ink.

What's the verdict?

- Jen

[SamCapote]

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale; 4 Whale / 2 Silky Purple / 2 Smoke Black. It's been 14 hours, and no weird reaction, but I am waiting at least 24 just in case. I tested it using a dip pen and I like it. Need to finesse it a little, but I am trying to create my ideal creamy Purple ink.

What's the verdict?

- Jen

 

Just keep it away from Japanese whaling ships, and it should be good. :ltcapd:

[saskia_madding]

It is getting REALLY hard to resist buying these inks.

[jgrasty]

I spent a few minutes tonight mixing Cyclamen Pink (CP) and Earth Brown (EB). The first thing you will notice with Cyclamen Pink is that it is very saturated compared to Earth Brown. Cyclamen Pink dominates the mix with Earth Brown. The other thing you'll notice about Cyclamen Pink is, well, PINK!!!! This color is not pink, it is PINK!!! Eye searing PINK!!!

 

Another thing I noticed was the Earth Brown not liking to mix with the Cyclamen Pink. EB wanted to float on CP, even though I mixed very thoroughly with a q-tip.

 

Earth Brown by itself is a very nice brown ink that I would use by itself. The Cyclamen Pink, uh, no.

 

Here are the mixes. I used 4 drops of one ink, and then added the second ink, mixed and swabbed on Rhodia Dotpad No 19. Next, 4 drops of the first ink, followed by 2 drops, etc. You get the idea. The plastic syringes that come with the Mix Free kit produce drops that are very uniform in size. None of the mixes really reminded me of any other inks in my collection.

 

Let me know your thoughts.

 

http://bettygrastymd.com/jgrasty/wp-content/uploads/mix-free-cp-eb.jpg

[meowmda]

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale; 4 Whale / 2 Silky Purple / 2 Smoke Black. It's been 14 hours, and no weird reaction, but I am waiting at least 24 just in case. I tested it using a dip pen and I like it. Need to finesse it a little, but I am trying to create my ideal creamy Purple ink.

What's the verdict?

- Jen

Nothing funky!! Haven't run it through a pen though, to check for flow. Sometimes I have found too much Whale will kind of make things chalky feeling.

[KCat]

So, Joey. What shade of pink is that Cyclamen?

 

Sounds perfect for replacing my Levenger Pinkly when I run out. Levenger Pinkly is Eye Searing Pink. I love it. Would never assault someone with it in a snail (for more than a sentence or two, anyway) but great editing ink.

 

Pink is a funny thing. I wonder if it doesn't play well with others in general. Be interesting to see how it does in other mixes.

[phentrek]

Wow! Thank you for the incredible ink mixes. I'm still waiting for mine. Each time I see a new post the wait gets harder!!!!!!!!!!!

[xiewadu]

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale

What's the verdict?

Just keep it away from Japanese whaling ships, and it should be good. :ltcapd:

 

HA!!! :clap1:

 

I tried mixing in some Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale; 4 Whale / 2 Silky Purple / 2 Smoke Black. It's been 14 hours, and no weird reaction, but I am waiting at least 24 just in case. I tested it using a dip pen and I like it. Need to finesse it a little, but I am trying to create my ideal creamy Purple ink.

What's the verdict?

- Jen

Nothing funky!! Haven't run it through a pen though, to check for flow. Sometimes I have found too much Whale will kind of make things chalky feeling.

 

That's good stuff! Thank you!

- Jen

[jgrasty]

Here's a scan of Flame Red (FR) and Aurora Blue (AB) mixes. These inks yielded some very nice colors ranging from a nice burgundy to concord grape to indigo. Note, my scanner makes the colors a little more vivid than they really look on paper, and flame red is a little more orange than shown here.

 

Here are the mixes. I used 4 drops of one ink, and then added one drop of the second ink, mixed and swabbed on Rhodia Dotpad No 19. Next, 4 drops of the first ink, followed by 2 drops, etc. You get the idea. The plastic syringes that come with the Mix Free kit produce drops that are very uniform in size.

 

Aurora Blue lightly stained the syringes from the kit; a little dilute ammonia cleaned it right up.

 

http://bettygrastymd.com/jgrasty/wp-content/uploads/mix-free-fr-ab.jpg

Edited July 19, 2011 by jgrasty

[lsmith42]

Mine came today... there goes getting the laundry or anything else done!

[abcmom]

Wow! It's a little overwhelming to have all of that color available on a whim. Thanks to all who have mixed and posted their colors. I've been searching for my signature blue and green - not to mention some energetic red/pink orange color. I will have to give this set a try.