Noodler's Golden Brown Vs. Rome Is Burning

[EnviroDAWG2]

Color change aside, RIB looks very much like GB. GB is not bulletproof or eternal and, obviously, does not change color when exposed to water. Is RIB more metallic looking on paper? Thoughts?

[linearM]

Noodler's golden brown is much warmer than Rome is Burning. Rome is burning is almost a raw brown, with a greenish tinge. I wouldn't say it's metalic looking. I found I like drawing with Rome Is Burning but I also found that with my regular correspondence paper (Wausau Papers, Astroparche) I got more feathering than I do with any of my other inks I use for correspondence. On my drawing paper feathering wasn't a problem.

[amberleadavis]

Do you have any scans or pics of the two inks?

[Grendel]

My bottle of RB isn't brown at all. More a sickly yellowish-green. Alt Goldgruen would be the closest ink I have colorwise (I don't have GB but #41.) I'm also not happy w/ RB's behavior, feels like it has too much surfactant in it (bleeds and feathers like crazy in a wet pen on any paper I have, soso in a dry pen on high-end paper)

 

http://s10.postimage.org/ph1jlvcfp/MG_0204.jpg

(saturation is fine, ink just disappears into the paper..)

[amberleadavis]

So what makes it go purple?

[Ad_Astra]

So what makes it go purple?

 

Exposure to water.

[AndyLa]

So what makes it go purple?

 

My guess would be a bulletproof purple mixed with a yellow ink. Yellow washes away and leaves purple. Just speculation on my part.

[linearM]

This is going to be my first attempt at attaching an image. I have a sample of Noodler's Golden Brown and Rome Burning on Clairefontaine Triomphe paper.

[bitterwonder]

Here are the two inks in use. Left, Golden Brown on paper primed with white ink.

Right, R is B on paper primed with white ink; the R is B is dissolved with water; making use of the golds and purples.

Still learning what this ink is capable of and how to use it.

[mhphoto]

Here's a little comparison from my review I just posted about two seconds ago. I don't like cross posting, so mods can delete this if they need to.

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/RomeIsBurningComparisons.jpg

 

Keep in mind the RIB samples line was written with a gushier pen (although RIB is without a doubt a gushy ink…) and the GB sample was written with a fine nib.

Edited May 8, 2012 by mhphoto

[GemMayhem]

Here are the two inks in use. Left, Golden Brown on paper primed with white ink.

Right, R is B on paper primed with white ink; the R is B is dissolved with water; making use of the golds and purples.

Still learning what this ink is capable of and how to use it.

What a great way to creatively take advantage of an ink's properties! Terrific idea!

[Yoda4561]

Sometimes Golden Brown will look like RiB, but most of the time it's a much brighter orange yellow brown color. Golden Brown is very unpredictable, ranging from apache sunset levels brilliant red-orange to a dark greenish brown, out of the same pen, and sometimes on the same page.

[linearM]

Noodler's golden brown has become one of my favorite inks because of the shading I get with various pens I use. It seems to work with both italic nibs and flex nibs. I haven't had the opportunity to really put the Rome Burning through its paces regarding shading but the impression I get is that It probably won't provide shading.

[amberleadavis]

Wow, I found that I had to soak it in water to get it to turn purple. Of course, we did soak it.