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I know that people love Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-peki, and it is a good, lubricated ink. I thought it might need a bit of pizzazz, so I added pearl lustre dust to it. Since the "deep blue" reminds me of the sea, and pearls come from the sea, it might be a good mix. And then one of my inky colleagues mentioned that he thought that it was my best concoction, so here are the results in a wavy graphic:

 

fpn_1428454819__sparkle_kon-peki-hjb.jpe

 

If J. Herbin can add sparkles to red and gray, why not blue? ;)

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Ooooo! Where do we get pearl luster dust? How much did you put in how much ink?

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Ooooo! Where do we get pearl luster dust? How much did you put in how much ink?

 

Amazon has it ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KQWHEEM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) and it is supposedly for cakes, but it I can't imagine people eating it. :unsure:

 

I started with a test tube (8 ml or so) of ink, and added enough dust to cover the bottom of the tube, and since it's easier to add more than remove some, I added enough give it sparkle, but not too much to clog a pen. The exact amount, I'm not sure of --I took a broad italic dip nib, and used that as a "scoop."

 

I'm using it in a broad nib TSBI, and it works perfectly. I don't know if I'd try it in a pen with less than a medium nib.

 

Hope this helps!

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Amazon has it ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KQWHEEM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) and it is supposedly for cakes, but it I can't imagine people eating it. :unsure:

 

I started with a test tube (8 ml or so) of ink, and added enough dust to cover the bottom of the tube, and since it's easier to add more than remove some, I added enough give it sparkle, but not too much to clog a pen. The exact amount, I'm not sure of --I took a broad italic dip nib, and used that as a "scoop."

 

I'm using it in a broad nib TSBI, and it works perfectly. I don't know if I'd try it in a pen with less than a medium nib.

 

Hope this helps!

Actually Lustre Dust *is* food grade. I've used the gold (particularly the "antique gold" and silver in particular, but also on one occasion the turquoise/teal color, either mixed into gum paste or painted on when mixed with something like clear rum or vodka (depending on what I have in the house), or, for a non-alcoholic version, with food-grade rosewater. I've made edible presentation pieces for SCA events, most recently on a small crown made out of sugarplate (the medieval equivalent to gum paste, painted with the gold, on a "cushion (gum paste rolled out over marzipan molded in the smallest size Wilton pillow cake pan). Sorry, thought I had pix but apparently not. The "crown" was about 4" in diameter, as I recall, and the "cushion" pillow pan is about 6 or 7" across.

I'm just not overly keen on the idea of putting it into a pen nib and feed. The times I used it I was painting with a small craft brush. Or, in the case of the teal color, I think I mixed it directly into the sugar plate as I was modeling (that time it was a peacock, using real peacock feathers for the tail; I had an armature for that one, made with stainless steel wire connected to a small piece of 1" x 8" wood then covered with marzipan; the armature had previously been used to make a swan, and then a couple of years after the "peacock", it was used for a mounted knight on a horse, with the wire loop for the horse's head and neck).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Super Pretty.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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