Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Brown - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[essayfaire]

Graf von Faber-Castell Hazelnut Brown on Bienfang paper in vintage Mentmore with M nib with a teeny bit of flex.

 

No drying tests because it doesn't smear at the one second mark!

 

[HalloweenHJB]

A quick comparison of some brown-ish inks from Birmingham.  The Petrified Wood is a true brown color, while the other 2 read much redder.  

 

 

Best,

 

HalloweenHJB

[essayfaire]

10 hours ago, HalloweenHJB said:

A quick comparison of some brown-ish inks from Birmingham.  The Petrified Wood is a true brown color, while the other 2 read much redder.  

 

 

Best,

 

HalloweenHJB

The Weathered Brick looks way more brownish than the Twilight! Is it just the photo?

[HalloweenHJB]

13 hours ago, essayfaire said:

The Weathered Brick looks way more brownish than the Twilight! Is it just the photo?

 

Yes —the Weathered Brick is a little less red and more brown than Twilight.  I like them both very much.  Need samples?

[essayfaire]

2 hours ago, HalloweenHJB said:

 

Yes —the Weathered Brick is a little less red and more brown than Twilight.  I like them both very much.  Need samples?

[Detman101]

It finally works right...after sitting in the archive for almost a year.

 

[pgcauk]

I am completely happy with my two Kobe Brown inks, #3 and #40, but "in order to qualify for free postage" I threw a bottle of Sailor 50 States Idaho in with a recent order for art supplies. I wondered at first if it was KyuKyoRyuchi in a different package, but no, both are beautiful dark purplish browns but Idaho has silver/green sheen and, possibly, even more purple! It is a very, very nice Dark Brown ink!
Here are some potatoes, three with pigment inks (Mukuri is gorgeous, but takes forever to dry, and still hadn't when I added water here) the two Kobe's and the Idaho. The shadows under the "white" potatoes are painted, the three dye inks are simply line drawing plus water.

 

[pgcauk]

Golly, not much action on here in the last year!
Just as an update from CAUK land:

*Brown has become my standard ink, although I still have 1,003 other pens and inks in action at one time!

*Idaho has been in my EDC Sailor PGS Kamoshika MF (so pretty!) since that last post, and very happy with it! In the MF nib Kobe #3 just looked black, but this one hits the target for me!

*I still have Kobe #40 in a 1.5mm stub, where it has been forever and serves well. Didn't have enough presence in the MF though!

*Oh, I have Herbin's Cacao Du Bresil in a Lamy CP1 with a Gold B nib and it's glorious!
*Newly added: Sailor Kamoshika (to go with the pen) and Taccia KuroCha. I love the Taccia range! Both of these are mostly for artwork tho'. Kamoshika is pale but pretty, Kurocha is for sure worth checking out!

*Just added Kobe #3 to a 1.1mm stub. Kurocha was too colorful, Doyou, with its glorious flow, too charcoal, but Kobe #3 fit just right!