Ink Rambling - Dromgoole's Noodler's Texas Black Bat And Its Stablemates . . .

[Tas]

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

Paper: Rhodia UNI No19 (can't wait to finish the pad, I've gone off it as colour wash results are nearly always different)
Inks: Noodlers's Texas Black Bat, Noodler's Heart of Darkness, Noodler's Raven, Noodler's Black.

I attach my swatches as reference too - notice (typical ) how they behave differently on the watercolour paper. However, this is how tend to use the inks so the swatches are more relevant to me than the Rhodia ramble.

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

Edited November 24, 2016 by Tas

[lgsoltek]

Blacks are not for me. But I adore your horse heads and jugs!

[Tas]

Blacks are not for me. But I adore your horse heads and jugs!

 

Thank you but the horse heads are roughly copied from Dark Horse Comics logo - I tried to draw wild black horses and very quickly gave up . . . the vases are however mine

[visvamitra]

Cool drawings, the inks though don't excite me that much

[bobje]

Tas, outstanding comparison. As for drawing inspiration from comic book illustrations for a review of an ink called "Texas Black Bat," thank you for choosing not to go with Batman.

[Tas]

Cool drawings, the inks though don't excite me that much

 

I know. But they are black. Proper black.

 

Sadly though as black as they are they'll never compare to my nurebairo - look at its loveliness . . .

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_pilot912_po_nib_nurebairo.jpg

[Tas]

Tas, outstanding comparison. As for drawing inspiration from comic book illustrations for a review of an ink called "Texas Black Bat," thank you for choosing not to go with Batman.

 

Thank you.

(Batman, too hard to draw )

[Chrissy]

Thank you for the review, and the drawings. Who would have thought that there could be so much difference between black inks...

[Cyber6]

I honestly can say that Tas is the MAIN culprit for my new found "affair" with Black...

 

If it wasn't for you and always looking for those stealthy undertones.... I would have never gone and get Nurebairo... which in return, you fell in love with and got your own bottle. So the circle is now close.

 

 

Lovely review Tas... I need a large poster with your Horse heads... (love the sepia color wash in HOD)..

 

 

 

C.

[Tas]

I honestly can say that Tas is the MAIN culprit for my new found "affair" with Black...

 

If it wasn't for you and always looking for those stealthy undertones.... I would have never gone and get Nurebairo... which in return, you fell in love with and got your own bottle. So the circle is now close.

 

 

Lovely review Tas... I need a large poster with your Horse heads... (love the sepia color wash in HOD)..

 

 

 

C.

Yay! 😊

 

Blacks can be addictive.

 

The Rhodes paper brings out a lot of warmth from the HOD wash. It's nowhere near that warm normally.

 

Glad you like nurebairo. What will we do when it runs out ? 😭

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the comparison.

For me, though, there's more to life than "blackest black". And the slow dry times for Texas Black Bat would make me completely crazy. So I think I'll stick to Heart of Darkness as my go-to black.

Although I'd be curious to see a more formal side by side with Old Manhattan, exclusive to Fountain Pen Hospital, which is also IMO super black (although it does have some issues with spread in my experience).

Is Raven Black the exclusive one from Wonder Pens in Toronto? I asked about it when I was there but decided that it didn't fill any "must have" niches.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Tas]

Thanks for the comparison.

For me, though, there's more to life than "blackest black". And the slow dry times for Texas Black Bat would make me completely crazy. So I think I'll stick to Heart of Darkness as my go-to black.

Although I'd be curious to see a more formal side by side with Old Manhattan, exclusive to Fountain Pen Hospital, which is also IMO super black (although it does have some issues with spread in my experience).

Is Raven Black the exclusive one from Wonder Pens in Toronto? I asked about it when I was there but decided that it didn't fill any "must have" niches.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thanks Ruth. I always appreciate your thoughts. I suppose Heart of Darkness is my go to black too but I'm a saddo, I feel sorry for my other blacks and load them up into pens at whim.

 

Raven's speciality it the greenish undertone, and perhaps the name

 

I'd love to try Old Manhattan - perhaps I'll pop a bottle in the bag when I next fill up with Ellis Island . . . now that's a GORGEOUS black for washing over. Loads of bluey lovelyness.

 

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

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks Ruth. I always appreciate your thoughts. I suppose Heart of Darkness is my go to black too but I'm a saddo, I feel sorry for my other blacks and load them up into pens at whim.

 

Raven's speciality it the greenish undertone, and perhaps the name

 

I'd love to try Old Manhattan - perhaps I'll pop a bottle in the bag when I next fill up with Ellis Island . . . now that's a GORGEOUS black for washing over. Loads of bluey lovelyness.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, I'm definitely thinking about getting a bottle of Ellis Island at Christmas (didn't have time this trip east to get down to FPH). I didn't get it the first time I went there, because at the time I was trying to match what came out of an Esterbrook SJ for color and shading (although I did buy a bottle of Old Manhattan because I felt bad about trying so many blue-blacks and not finding what I wanted; Art Brown's was still open at that point, and I went there next, and ended up getting both Diamine Denim and Noodler's Manhattan Blue -- one for the color match and one for the shading...). I did go back to FPH a year or two later to pick up a bottle of Henry Hudson Blue, but I'm thinking that I could really use a bottle of Ellis Island because I don't have a lot of super dark blue-blacks.... (Can one have too many blue blacks? Naaaah....)

But I don't use Old Manhattan much. Well, I don't use *any* black ink much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

Tad WOW that's crazy cool. Thanks for the review.

[PS104]

Black inks matter