Troublemaker Inks (New Company?)

[Intensity]

Nice! I'm going to compare Petrichor with Ink Studio 123 and 162 when I get it. I've found some samples of the troublemaker inks on Instagram:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bze8TBVjluN/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzngqJnDKz9/

 

They are still too new to have many written sample photographs floating around.

[Tas]

Nice! I'm going to compare Petrichor with Ink Studio 123 and 162 when I get it. I've found some samples of the troublemaker inks on Instagram:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bze8TBVjluN/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzngqJnDKz9/

 

They are still too new to have many written sample photographs floating around.

 

Excellent.

 

As a community, we've helped many a new ink company get started. Hope this is another success story.

[Carrau]

I'm most curious about "Copper Patina". This is the description on the ink page: "Age and exposure brings about a melancholy beauty to copper artifact." [/size] The swab looks like it has some copper/bronze-colored glitter in a turquoise base. Do you think I'm right in my evaluation? I would order a bottle, but it's currently unavaialble

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On another note, does the flow level affect feathering? I.e. I imagine more surfactant is added to the ink to increase its flow, which would then also increase ink penetration into a more absorbent page, right? So if I were to use a gushy pen, I probably want "dry" level to still get a juicy line but not have it soak in as fast?

I have a bottle of Copper Patina, and it is just as you describe, a light blue-green (greener than turquoise, between Robert Oster Tranquility and Marine) with what appears to be gold particles suspended within. In writing with a Lamy Safari with a 1.5mm stub, the particles were only visible by tilting the page to catch the light, but plainly visible in areas where pooling occurred. The base color does resemble the patina acquired by copper, but it is much more saturated than what you would actually see on copper, and there is no copper color in the ink. My ink is a “Standard Wet,” but was dry even in the 1.5 stub. I added a couple of drops of diluted 05% Photoflo, and it was less dry with a nicer writing experience. Looking under a loupe, I didn’t appreciate any more feathering on Staples Signa Pad paper, remembering that this was Photoflo 0.5% solution-if you use straight Photoflo YMMV. I hope that helps.