Taccia Hokusai Katsushika Sabimidori (Rust Green)

[Intensity]

I don't have Prussian Blue, but I have been interested in it. I think Vert de Gris is more gray. Honestly I love Vert de Gris: dry pens, wet pens, skinny Japanese EF, broad cursive italic. It looks excellent in all forms.

 

Sabimidori is indeed very intense, but also it's really unusual. It's so good to draw with too using it as watercolor. Great color separation: vibrant blue and green hues, and the bright coppery sheen.

Edited October 15, 2020 by Intensity

[PithyProlix]

On 10/8/2020 at 7:43 AM, Intensity said:

Ok now that I have Sabimidori, I can compare it to Vert de Gris (one of my top favorite inks). They are really nothing alike, except perhaps in generous flow characteristics.

 

Vert de Gris is a very pastel gray with a teal tint. Chalky pastel finish, practically no sheen to be seen.

 

Sabimidori is a vivid deep blue leaning teal while wet, and when it permeates the paper and dries the finish looks much more green. It's more saturated than Vert de Gris. It also sheens easily in the most vivid rust-orange hue I've ever seen in a fountain pen ink. Really bright and glinting metallic.

 

I'll photograph the two at some point to give a better color representation, as these scans and a cell phone pic don't do Sabimidori any justice, but you can see from the images below that the two inks are quite different:

 

 

 

Hi @Intensity - 

May I ask, where did you get these cards?