Inks And Intrinsic Beauty

[essayfaire]

I almost never try to match ink and barrel colors (one of the exceptions is my M400 Brown Tortoise, and I keep THREATENING to put Noodler's Navajo Turquoise in it sometime instead of a brown ink, except I like Edelstein Smoky Quartz too much ). I DO, however, sometimes pick inks on the basis of what I think will look good coming out of a specific pen. And if I don't like an ink color at all I try to find it a new home -- or at least grit my teeth and use up the sample vial, knowing that once it's gone, it's gone, and I never have to use it again....

As to the pen in the OP's photo? Maybe a brown or dark red ink. Purple would be nice, too (I hesitate to recommend pink because I don't know if the OP is a "pink" sort of person or not.

Of course, black ink goes with everything.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

So perhaps I was too quick to declare myself a non-pink person. On a lark, inspired by your response, I picked up a sample of Oster Pink Glitz. I love it in the pen; it is muted by saturated and has a brownishness to it. Apologies for the photo quality. I will be buying this ink. Thanks!

[inkstainedruth]

Reading back through this thread just now, it occurred to me that I have one ink of which I dislike the color of a lot -- Noodler's Luck of the Draw LE (from the Baltimore-Washington Pen Show from a couple of years ago). But it works well in the Noodler's Boston Safety pen.... Which (rather annoyingly) Kung Te Cheng did NOT....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[essayfaire]

Reading back through this thread just now, it occurred to me that I have one ink of which I dislike the color of a lot -- Noodler's Luck of the Draw LE (from the Baltimore-Washington Pen Show from a couple of years ago). But it works well in the Noodler's Boston Safety pen.... Which (rather annoyingly) Kung Te Cheng did NOT....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Interesting that that, too, is a green....