Polar Teal

[BlakLanner]

I have gotten a few requests to post a sample of this ink, probably because I end up bringing it up about every other post, so here it is.

 

Since my ink samples arrived before my first pen did, I decided to do some preemptive mixing. I attempted to replicate a mix that dizzypen posted nearly three years ago, but could not seem to get it right. This was due to either mixing errors, ink colors being slightly different or due to the calibration of my monitor being off, which is very likely.

 

What I did find was a mix that was pretty close and seemingly retained all the bulletproof/freezeproof qualities of the base inks.

Pardon the bad handwriting, I am getting used to the pen and my writing wasn't that good to begin with.

 

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9793/image2vn.jpg

 

I hope I managed to get the balance right. The color looks perfect on one monitor, but too grey on the other. Upon closer inspection, the feathering is slightly worse than I thought, but that could be due to the low quality paper I used (proper paper for FP ink are on their way).

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting color. It looks a bit like the final product that I get when using Pharmacist's Turkish Night iron gall ink (which is theoretically cyan to black but in reality for me is more like cyan to dark teal green).

Because it's an IG, it behaves really well (although I was using it to box off my best-black-in-a-rolerball experiments and I discovered that if it's not *completely* dry on the page it smears a bit when introduced to water... ).

The other downsides to TN are that I don't know if it's low-temperature proof like the Polar series inks, and that the overseas shipping is more than the ink...

The plus sides of course are that it's an iron gall, so besides behaving really well, it's fun to watch the color shift; plus, I don't have to mix it, just open the bottle....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth