Halloween And Autumn Seasonal Ink Plans

[Misfit]

Hi all,

 

I have a black TWSBI Eco, and got a sample of Bungubox Ink of the Witch to put in it for October/Halloween. The Sunset Orange Eco will get filled with Diamine Pumpkin. I will post photos once the Sunset Orange Eco is dry enough to be filled.

 

Is anyone else planning seasonal inks for Autumn and Halloween?

 

I suspect these topics come along often, so apologies if someone has beat me to this topic in 2019.

 

Edited to try to make an apostrophe show up. It did not, so I typed out I will. Blame it on the iPhone.

Edited September 29, 2019 by Misfit

[goodpens]

Hi Misfit,

 

Not planned, but enjoying some seasonal colors:

 

At the Pelikan Hub, filled my black TWSBI Eco with Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin and received Diamine Ancient Copper, which is now in my terra-cotta Lamy Studio. Also using Blackstone Australian Bush, Diamine Woodland Green, Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi, Diamine Cocoa Shimmer, and Monteverde Fire Opal. Together these oranges, greens, and browns seem pretty autumnal. Received a sample of Private Reserve Ebony Purple, which I believe would be a good Halloween ink, too, but I haven't used it yet. Also have a bunch of others inked up at the moment.

Edited September 30, 2019 by goodpens

[ENewton]

My autumnal purples are Sailor Kobe Suma Purple, J Herbin Poussiere de Lune, Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa, and Diamine Grape.

 

Outside the purple range, I have ordered a bottle of Sailor Kobe Taisan-ji Yellow, which I will inaugurate this autumn but which I hope will henceforth be a summer ink. (I won't know until I've used it.)

[displacermoose]

I am only just beginning to explore seasonal colors. It started a few months ago when I had an unaccountable hankering for light, cheerful, floral summer colors. This was very much out of character since I generally go for complex and broody in my inks.

 

I'm feeling the need to explore autumn in the same way. I pulled out the Ancient Copper (which is almost finished) and will probably replace it with Fire Opal when it runs out. Yodokai will go in a pen today even though it is supposed to be summer bonfire. For me bonfires very much extend to early and mid fall. KWZ Honey is both one of my favorite inks and reminds me of Keats's "To autumn" (to set budding more/ And still more, later flowers for the bees/ Until they think warm days will never cease,/ For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.), so that one is on the list. I'll need a brown and possibly a green, although I'm exceptionally picky about greens and don't know if I have one I can stand that feels autumnal and doesn't overlap with the other inks I have picked out.

 

Later Yodoki will be replaced with OkuYama because it is exactly the color of the burning bush outside my kitchen window, and I will also add something that reminds me of rain (Shigure or Chushu, most likely).

 

Edit to add: Vert Gris. That's my autumnal green. It reminds me of mist or fog in front of trees. Perfect.

Edited September 30, 2019 by displacermoose

[Cast]

Fall fever started for me the first of September, even though the temperature was in the upper nineties.

It could be all the dead grass and foliage, but suddenly the bright colors of summer didn’t look right.

Currently inked are:

Sailor wake-uguisu

Pilot Yama Guri

Sailor Okuyama

Pilot Yu-yaki

Pilot Tsukushi

Diamine Pumpkin

J. Herbin Vert Empire

pilot Ina-Ho

Pilot Shin-Kai

Pilot Shin-Kai

pilot Kiri-Sami

[pararis]

Same every year...

 

Diamine Autumn Oak in a Sheaffer Legacy II with a flood-prone broad nib.

[sombrueil]

Diamine Autumn Oak, Diamine Ancient Copper, J.Herbin Lie de The, and one that just came today and not yet tried, Sailor Rikyu-cha. And for the bright bright blue skies of autumn, Diamine Asa Blue.

That will be my five inks for my five pens.

[Misfit]

For a fairly good green for Autumn, Ive used Diamine Safari. Having only had Diamine Pumpkin in a Japanese F nib, I am looking forward to seeing it in a wider nib.

 

I have far too many pens filled now, or I would add more colors to my plans. Some choices are based on Fall leaves colors, but chrysanthemums have a wide range, so that is where I see the purples fitting in.

 

It is still too hot here. 85°F at 6pm. I would be happy with the high in the 70s.

 

Here is a photo of the Halloween TWSBIs:

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by Misfit

[inkstainedruth]

Not an orange ink person. But I WAS thinking about putting my M400 Brown Tortoise back into rotation -- maybe with Edelstein Smoky Quartz -- to try my hand at Inktober again this year (I did it a few years ago; it was a challenge but I got through it).

Hmm. Might also be time to ink up something with Diamine Terra Cotta as well.... That's the closest to "orange" that I can stomach....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PaganArcher]

No oranges, but my Visconti HS is currently inked up with Papier Plume Samhain and will remain that way until the last day of Yule when I visit the mound and seek the wisdom of my ancestors.

[ENewton]

No oranges, but my Visconti HS is currently inked up with Papier Plume Samhain and will remain that way until the last day of Yule when I visit the mound and seek the wisdom of my ancestors.

 

 

Would you be willing to post a handwriting sample? I've read elsewhere that this ink is somewhat dry and low in saturation, but you must be having a different experience if you plan to use it for three months.

[mulrich]

I recently filled a pen with a sample of Noodler's Apache Sunset and I think it's a great fall ink. I didn't intentionally pick a fall-colored ink but it worked out that way.

 

The ink is renowned for its shading, so the exact color of orange is hard to describe but to me the color seems like a nice fall orange. It's a little brighter shade of orange than I normally like but still not too bright to be obnoxious (I should note that I'm using Apache Sunset in a wet OBBB nib, so it's potentially darker than what you'll get with a thinner nib).

[Runnin_Ute]

Some of the more autumnal inks I have on pens right now

Sheaffer Skrip Emerald Green

KWZI El Dorado

KWZI Pine Green

Levenger Pomegranate

Lamy Petrol

Edelstein Aventurine

 

Edelstein Olivine and Robert Oster Astorquiza Olive are great muted greens. Neither is in a pen at the moment though. I just finished a fill if Apache Sunset and KWZI Brown #4.

[Noihvo]

[VivaTerlingua]

My autumn picks:

 

Sailor KN Dorcus hopei bindolosus

Sailor KN Uca arcuata

Sailor Douyou

Kyo-iro Stone Road of Gion

Akkerman van Vermeer Steenrood

KWZI Monarch

Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo

[Carrau]

Grey-Browns can be uninspiring, but they have their own beauty at times. (See the Great Grey Owl in your avatar).

Currently Im using Monteverde Fireopal in Edison Collier Persimmon Swirl, GvFC Moss Green in Horn Leonardo MZ, and Ancient Copper in Leonardo LMZ Copper.

Edited October 6, 2019 by Herrjaeger

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm just going with black 'n' orange.

 

Not even in such cool-looking pens as Misfit has, either: just a Lamy Nexx and whatever pens🖌 I had filled when I had my Black Ink Brain Fever. 😜

[thudthwacker]

A lot of years, my Fall colors have been a bright orange (Sailor Kin-mokusei, usually), a sky blue (Waterman Inspired Blue), and some other color which reminds me of the seasonal foliage (last year, it was Iroshizuku Momiji). So, that is, usually, bright-sunny-Fall-day colors.

 

Earlier this week, I filled a new Nemosine Singularity (broad nib) with Colorverse Dark Energy, and was showing my teen the color -- how (depending on how the light hits it) you get sort of reddish, brownish, slightly-purplish, dark-green-sheenish -- and they said "Fall; it's Fall-colored." And it struck me that it was -- it made me think of foliage colors from later in the season, as they look under a lead-grey sky, with a chilly wind heralding winter. My Lamy AL-star in Charged Green (1.1 nib) is pretty much always filled with Platinum Classic Citrus Black these days, and the dark gold fits that color palette, too -- indeed, the two inks really look lovely next to each other. My Lamy Safari (also a 1.1 nib) was just filled with De Atramentis Deepwater Obsession Black-Blue, and I think that fits, too -- it's not the bright blue of a sunny day, but more the profoundly deep blue of midnight (though, okay, with a touch more green than the night sky usually has).

 

In all, I'm pretty happy with these as seasonal colors, even if they're not the ones I usually gravitate towards.

[Misfit]

There are so many diverse colors during autumn. Until the frost, it is still growing season. So many colors in chrysanthemums, and the autumn pansy varieties. Lots of variety is seen in trees too. Not just red but burgundy too. Yellows, oranges, brown, rust shades, and greens like Diamine Safari.

 

Then there are the shades in Fall clothes.

 

Thank you to Sailor Kenshin for the nice comment on my pens. I have 3 Lamy Nexx pens, which seem to get less attention compared to Safaris and Al-Stars. I like them.

Edited October 16, 2019 by Misfit