Ink Mix: Bulletproof Navajo Safari

[justaninker]

This was a mix intended to use up Noodler's #41 Brown. #41 Brown is a pleasant, well-behaved ink, but too unsaturated for daily use. This mix achieves a darker, professional, more muted color that is medium-wet, 92% bulletproof, and shades well. Incidentally the color seems to be reminiscent of Diamine's Safari/Salamander

 

The photo looks more accurate than the scan, although neither shows the green component well. My old scanner apparently doesn't like HP 24lb Laserjet paper.

 

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Scan

Edited May 29, 2016 by justaninker

[OCArt]

Looks like a nice mix, thanks for posting this.

[Tas]

Oooo. I don't have any 41 Brown but looking at the result I will pop another brown into your mix and have a play.

 

Thank you.

[justaninker]

Oooo. I don't have any 41 Brown but looking at the result I will pop another brown into your mix and have a play.

 

Thank you.

Hi Tas, you are very welcome! If you substitute a more saturated brown (and most browns should be more saturated than #41), your results may be more similar to El Lawrence. You may want to leave out the bulletproof black if you want the green to show through. This may compromise the shading a bit, though.

 

Have fun!

[Tas]

Hi Tas, you are very welcome! If you substitute a more saturated brown (and most browns should be more saturated than #41), your results may be more similar to El Lawrence. You may want to leave out the bulletproof black if you want the green to show through. This may compromise the shading a bit, though.

 

Have fun!

 

Using your 10:1 guidelines I took an old, failed brown mix, Brown Dreggs and mixed it with Navajo Turquoise. (no black needed)

I absolutely love it !

Thank you so much.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_navajo_brown.jpg

 

 

For reference, Brown Dreggs looks like this:

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_brown_dreggs_may2014.jpg

 

[Cyber6]

OH GOSHH....

 

 

I am loving that Navajo Brown... How many ml of that never-reproducible-again ink you have?

 

 

C.

[Tas]

 

Funny that. I mixed up just 2ml of this to see what it'd look like but when I saw it on the word card, I poured all of the, until today, previously useless Brown Dreggs (40ml) and then added 4ml of NT to it.

 

I knows what I likes when I sees it

Shall I send you some or will you have a go at mixing yours and produce an even more gorgeous murky greeny brown . . . ?

[Cyber6]

 

Shall I send you some or will you have a go at mixing yours and produce an even more gorgeous murky greeny brown . . . ?

 

 

I guess we both know each other so well.... Yes, I will be making my own murky green brown...

 

 

I just need to find a brown I don't like much.. Cause I do like my Navajo Turquoise..

 

 

 

 

C.

[Tas]

[lgsoltek]

 

Funny that. I mixed up just 2ml of this to see what it'd look like but when I saw it on the word card, I poured all of the, until today, previously useless Brown Dreggs (40ml) and then added 4ml of NT to it.

 

I knows what I likes when I sees it

 

Shall I send you some or will you have a go at mixing yours and produce an even more gorgeous murky greeny brown . . . ?

 

 

Oh you slugs!