Diamine Registrar's Blue-Black

[politovski]

ok,

my first iron gall ink. please calibrate for your monitor. these

are properly white balanced and the color is just as i see it.

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overall, i can dig it. love the permanence and lack of bad

behavior on paper. just need to be meticulous about cleaning

the pens. seems to really like wet pens too. as you can see,

it needed time to warm up to my vac700 and we got alot of

nice shading near the end. i may just have to get a bottle.

-p

 

3/7/2013 addendum: acetone washes the pigment out, and hydrogen peroxide almost annihilates the iron portion so that only a bit of transparent yellow is on the page.

Edited March 8, 2013 by politovski

[lapis]

Nice review! The colour I see on my screen fits perfectly with my ink's colour on my paper. Basically a "nice" blue-black.

Still, I don't like it because -- as you mentioned -- it's just too dry, at least for me. All of my other blue-blacks and/or iron-galls are wetter.

 

BTW, why did you note picric acid? Due to its once being used as a dye, or because you wanted to explode your bottle?

 

Mike

[politovski]

i was going to draw a cholesterol ring, perhaps

even one of the hormones, but ran out of space.

i am certainly not in favor of people making

things like picric acid. but, it does look cool

when you draw it. perhaps i'll just stay with

biologic molecules in the future...

[Axial]

Your scans remind me of my experimentation with Diamine Registrar's - I have concluded that I do not like what italic nibs do to it. An italic nib acts as a spatula that lays down a much thinner (if broader) layer of ink than a regular nib, and as a result Registrar's looks pale and washed-out compared to when it is used with ordinary wet medium or broad nibs. With my Parson's Essential (M) it eventually oxidises to almost black with nice shading on thinner-layered parts.

 

Also, it looks like you used non-bleached paper - on bleached paper you would not have time to write the whole page before it turns black (or gray).

[politovski]

no scan involved. this was a photo taken with my K10D and flash set up as a bounce off my ceiling. found that the colors are much more accurate and less washed out when my camera does the white balance and exposure. my lexmark scanner tends to overexpose everything and you lose some of the saturation of the inks. as for unbleached paper, actually what had happened was i used the pen immediately after filling the pen, and had let it sit several hours. not sure why there would be a difference, but there was. i'll have to include some photos from my shafer, as there is quite a bit of shading there.

[Axial]

no scan involved. this was a photo taken with my K10D and flash set up as a bounce off my ceiling. found that the colors are much more accurate and less washed out when my camera does the white balance and exposure. my lexmark scanner tends to overexpose everything and you lose some of the saturation of the inks. as for unbleached paper, actually what had happened was i used the pen immediately after filling the pen, and had let it sit several hours. not sure why there would be a difference, but there was. i'll have to include some photos from my shafer, as there is quite a bit of shading there.

 

Yes, I meant the photos, sorry.

 

The difference is probably because some oxidation happened to the ink in the nib feed during those several hours of exposure to oxygen. If you kept writing for a page of two, it would likely revert back to the lighter tone. If you used bleached paper such as the Optik paper from Oxford and Black'nRed notebooks, or even Moleskine, all of it would darken almost immediately after being put down to paper.

[politovski]

perhaps. i have used it on clairfontaine's 90g paper and it is light, and the bristol cards i used it was dark. plain oxford 3x5 cards also darken quickly. the pattern i have noticed is that the lighter papers without smoothers and such really seem to darken quickly.