Pelikan Edelstein Aventurine

[lgsoltek]

Aventurine is a decent green ink and has quite a good flow and is rather lubricating. It tends to bleed on many kinds of paper more than other inks, including other Edelstein inks. Looking past the bleeding problem, I think it's an OK ink but I find the colour still too blue for my taste.

 

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Edited January 22, 2019 by Lgsoltek

[lapis]

Nice review but as you say still somewhat uninteresting. I don't find it too blue but too pale. And/or anything else would add a shot of pizzazz........................

[namrehsnoom]

Like you say: a bit blue-leaning. This was one of my first green inks, and I’ve never been impressed by it. It’s an ok ink, but a bit too bland in my opinion. Totally missing the wow-factor. Never tried to use it for drawing, so I might give it a retry.

BTW... love your related ink comparisons. What do you use to make them? (I’m always interested in techniques used to get ink on paper)

[carlos.q]

I also didn't like Aventurine very much. I much prefer Edelstein Olivine.

[lgsoltek]

Like you say: a bit blue-leaning. This was one of my first green inks, and I’ve never been impressed by it. It’s an ok ink, but a bit too bland in my opinion. Totally missing the wow-factor. Never tried to use it for drawing, so I might give it a retry.

BTW... love your related ink comparisons. What do you use to make them? (I’m always interested in techniques used to get ink on paper)

 

The end of a nib holder... I dip it in the ink and swab the ink on the paper, then spread it out.

[Newjelan]

I also didn't like Aventurine very much. I much prefer Edelstein Olivine.

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[Honeybadgers]

I really like olivine, it's got that mossy smokiness that this lacks.

[Timotheus]

A dissonant voice: I do love Aventurine: it's a dark green, but still green. Olivine is too dark to my taste: a gloomy, almost depressing colour.

 

My favorite greens are Aventurine and Montblanc Irish Green, which is a more clear and bright kind of green: not too light, not too dark, just green green.

[Nyanzilla]

It's a nice green colour, but I prefer the Pelikan 4001 dunkelgrün or dark green which is much cheaper.

The bleeding is an issue because I write on many different papers.