Inky T O D - Visual Blights - Bleed Through, Show Through And Feathering

[inkstainedruth]

MB made a ink named after Tolstoy -- a Writers Edition LE from a few years ago.  Expensive, but I haven't been able to find another ink that *quite* matches the slightly teal leaning blue, and sorry now that I didn't buy a backup bottle when I had a chance.  De Atramentis also has an ink named for Tolstoy -- it appears to be re-labeled Khaki, when I checked their website just now.

@ yazeh -- I liked War and Peace when I read it a few years ago.  But it might have been that I got a phenomenally good translation (done by some woman in the UK in the 1950s).  Of course I also managed to sit through the 4 hour "Cliff Notes" version, where Henry Fonda was WOEFULLY miscast (I suspect that's the version that my parents went to see when it came out, and apparently afterwards my father said it should have been called Crime and Punishment instead -- because it was a crime to have made and punishment to sit through).  OTOH?  If I NEVER have to read Anna Karenina again it will be too soon....  By halfway through the book, I even stopped feeling sorry for her husband, because he was such an annoying schlub....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Audrey T]

51 minutes ago, yazeh said:

humid... No altitude but lots of attitude

We have desert-dryness, altitude, and attitude. You can't ask for more. 😉

[yazeh]

9 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@ yazeh -- I liked War and Peace when I read it a few years ago.  But it might have been that I got a phenomenally good translation (done by some woman in the UK in the 1950s).  Of course I also managed to sit through the 4 hour "Cliff Notes" version, where Henry Fonda was WOEFULLY miscast (I suspect that's the version that my parents went to see when it came out, and apparently afterwards my father said it should have been called Crime and Punishment instead -- because it was a crime to have made and punishment to sit through).  OTOH?  If I NEVER have to read Anna Karenina again it will be too soon....  By halfway through the book, I even stopped feeling sorry for her husband, because he was such an annoying schlub....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I read a lot of Russian literature (too much) in my early twenties. There was this aura of stagnation in most of the stuff I read (think Oblomov). I'm not sure if I managed to plough through War and Peace, but a movie on the last days of Tolstoy, completely turned me off the author. 

However, I saw the Opera by Prokofiev. I don't remember much, but the famous love theme, which was truly lovely... but other that that it was mostly crime and punishment, Lol!

[yazeh]

2 minutes ago, Audrey T said:

We have desert-dryness, altitude, and attitude. You can't ask for more. 😉

 

[Audrey T]

28 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

MB made a ink named after Tolstoy -- a Writers Edition LE from a few years ago.  Expensive, but I haven't been able to find another ink that *quite* matches the slightly teal leaning blue, and sorry now that I didn't buy a backup bottle when I had a chance.  De Atramentis also has an ink named for Tolstoy -- it appears to be re-labeled Khaki, when I checked their website just now.

@ yazeh -- I liked War and Peace when I read it a few years ago.  But it might have been that I got a phenomenally good translation (done by some woman in the UK in the 1950s).  Of course I also managed to sit through the 4 hour "Cliff Notes" version, where Henry Fonda was WOEFULLY miscast (I suspect that's the version that my parents went to see when it came out, and apparently afterwards my father said it should have been called Crime and Punishment instead -- because it was a crime to have made and punishment to sit through).  OTOH?  If I NEVER have to read Anna Karenina again it will be too soon....  By halfway through the book, I even stopped feeling sorry for her husband, because he was such an annoying schlub....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Now I'm sorry that I missed the MB ink. Not sorry to have missed Fonda "roll[ing] mightily across the screen." (Just watched the trailer. It was too long.)

[amberleadavis]

Okay, that's funny, I was thinking it was  C&T as the ink name, not two different inks. 

[Audrey T]

1 minute ago, amberleadavis said:

Okay, that's funny, I was thinking it was  C&T as the ink name, not two different inks. 

You're thinking of "Molière and Woolf." It's one of those dichromatic inks, but clashier than most.

[amberleadavis]

1 hour ago, Audrey T said:

You're thinking of "Molière and Woolf." It's one of those dichromatic inks, but clashier than most.

 

 

No, but your MW name made me think of Meow Wolf.  https://meowwolf.com/

[Arkanabar]

On 4/28/2020 at 12:24 PM, yazeh said:

If I like an ink, I find a way to use it accordingly... And I forgive a lot of things... What I don't like are inks that refuse to dry, Black Swan Oz, Noodler's Red black, Noodler's Golden Brown.... Though if I really like them, I would use them on absorbent paper, or with a fine nib...though I'm not a fan of fine nibs

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I used Red-Black quite a bit for a few years, before I found somebody to give it to.  It was one of those "I'mma use this ink if it kills me!" situations, because it seemed to more-or-less pass for brown, and I wasn't going to own two brown inks.  Its behavior, like Noodler's Black, is improved by dilution.  I diluted mine approximately 4:1 or 3:1, and it became a burgundy, and much less prone to smudging.

[amberleadavis]

23 minutes ago, Arkanabar said:

I used Red-Black quite a bit for a few years, before I found somebody to give it to.  It was one of those "I'mma use this ink if it kills me!" situations, because it seemed to more-or-less pass for brown, and I wasn't going to own two brown inks.  Its behavior, like Noodler's Black, is improved by dilution.  I diluted mine approximately 4:1 or 3:1, and it became a burgundy, and much less prone to smudging.

 

I may try this in my insanity thread.