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Here is a short review of a recipe I came up with of an ink that I'm calling Eggplant (or courgette if you prefer). The recipe is 7 parts to 2, Noodlers Iraqi Indigo to Noodlers Zhivago.

 

The resulting color is a dark purple-black that I think is a good match for an eggplant's skin. This ink flows very well and is a fairly quick drying ink. More importantly, it is completely waterproof. It will raise barely a cloud when run under water, and performs well on poor quality paper.

 

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Thanks for posting. I like the idea of a purple-black! On my monitor, I can't really see the purple shading. How much is there (I know - tough question, although I am familar with eggplant)? Does the purple come out on the perimeter of the lines, in shading, or is it just a subtle undertone to the whole line? Maybe that's more clear (or maybe I just muddied the water).

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It actually looks more purple in person. Also, I used clairefontane paper, and the color is more apparent on more absorbant paper. I'll try to get another picture on different paper. It really isn't all that subtle in person.

 

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There is something about using Zhivago as a mixing ink that is strange. The color that you get from the mix is not really stable. I tried a variety of this mix using PR plum. The purple in the plum was very apparent in the mix, but after about 6 hours it had vanished in the ink mix, although on the page it had not changed. I chalked that up to the plum.

 

Iraqi indigo on the other hand stayed stable for most of a day, but I can see that the color is different from what I had yesterday. The color of the photos is the color after the shift occured.

 

I wonder if there is a component of the Zhivago that reacts with the pigments in the inks I mix with it.

 

I may try upping the 7:2 ratio and seeing what happens. I do like the color in any case -- the flow is great, it dries fast, and is quite waterproof.

 

Stephen

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Very nifty, I may need to pick up some II and experiment. I don't even mind the color shift, it just makes things more interesting!

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That's an interesting mix, Stephen. I find that Noodler's Nightshade is pretty close to the colour of an aubergine/eggplant, but I also like the more subtle tones of your shade.

 

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Not waterproof, but if you want a tad more purple in an aubergine/eggplant, you could try equal proportions of PR Midnight Blues, PR Plum, and PR Black Cherry. Increasing the proportions of blue and plum to 3:3:2 gives a very dark purple.

 

I have seen it said that 1 x Pelikan Violet to 2 x JH Poussiere de Lune (Burgundy) also gives a nice aubergine, but I've never seen or tried it.

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Mmm mmmmm! qie zi (ch'ie tzu)! Chop them up, stir fry them with a little garlic and serve them with oyster sauce -- oops, you got me thinking about the real thing, complete with the memory of whiffs of soft-coal smoke :blush: .

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