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Thanks everyone for the kind words. :)

 

@inkstainedruth This ink does not have any shimmer. Maybe the close ups with the TWSBI pen look gold? If so, it was probably just the light I had to use for the macro shots. That was one of the most challenging parts of doing this. My light setup is a joke. Any serious photographer would cringe. I wish I could afford some fancy studio lighting or the holy grail, a DSLR camera. Now that would yield some nice photos!

 

 

"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 118:29

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2 hours ago, axialix said:

Thanks everyone for the kind words. :)

 

@inkstainedruth This ink does not have any shimmer. Maybe the close ups with the TWSBI pen look gold? If so, it was probably just the light I had to use for the macro shots. That was one of the most challenging parts of doing this. My light setup is a joke. Any serious photographer would cringe. I wish I could afford some fancy studio lighting or the holy grail, a DSLR camera. Now that would yield some nice photos!

 

 

 

What is your lighting setup, please? The results look grrrrreat. 

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A couple of Lohas bare bulbs directly over my paper. I have to shield my eyes with one hand and take the picture with the other hand. Crude but effective.

 

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"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 118:29

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1 hour ago, axialix said:

A couple of Lohas bare bulbs directly over my paper. I have to shield my eyes with one hand and take the picture with the other hand. Crude but effective.

 

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... + inexpensive. 

 

Thanks. 

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Your images are fantastic!  Some of them look like slides from a

microscopic biology experiment.  I look at them and lose all sense of

scale; they take me to other levels of reality.

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Thank you @axialix for this amazing, chaw dropping review.

Such a wonderful handwriting and so inspiring drawings, washes and marblings - simply great!

Colorverse inks seem to be of high quality (I have tested only one so far) and are available in Europe at a luxury price as well.

 

Looking forward to more of your ink reviews!

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Because of the review, I considered getting at least a sample of this.  One of the places I looked at had swab images, and those did NOT show the amazing sheen, and the ink looked like a standard, not overly saturated, black ink.... 

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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On 1/22/2022 at 3:13 AM, DvdRiet said:

Whoa! Whoa! WHOA!! What kind of wizardry is this???

Seriously. What kind of wizardry is it?

 

On 1/22/2022 at 9:55 AM, Audrey T said:

So seriously cool. If I thought this ink would look like this for me, I'd buy it. I actually do like a lot of Colorverse inks, but I'm not partial to blue-blacks. In your hands, though, this ink is magical. Looking forward to more of your reviews. Wow -- made my inky day!

Right? I would totally buy it if I could like, do art. Frame it. Sell it. Have people fawn all over it. Yes, that is what I would do. So, yeah, I would love that stuff if I could do any of that with it. 

 

 

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On 1/22/2022 at 3:50 PM, axialix said:

Thanks everyone for the kind words. :)

 

@inkstainedruth This ink does not have any shimmer. Maybe the close ups with the TWSBI pen look gold? If so, it was probably just the light I had to use for the macro shots. That was one of the most challenging parts of doing this. My light setup is a joke. Any serious photographer would cringe. I wish I could afford some fancy studio lighting or the holy grail, a DSLR camera. Now that would yield some nice photos!

 

 

 

I think your shots are amazing. With a DSLR, my photos would still look like a kindergarten let loose with fisher price toy camera. Thank you for the great review.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I understand saturation and shading to have an inverse relationship. This ink does not shade, it sheens; bronze at first, then after a few days of drying, the blue will show up (depending on the nib and how much it was allowed to pool). This pic was taken after a few days of drying. A light coat of the ink was sprayed onto TR 68 paper. You can see the blue in the areas where the ink pooled.

 

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I've read posts here and elsewhere that some people were not getting the blue sheen to show up. And as @inkstainedruth said, some retailers and ink reviewers don't show it at all. I cannot account for this. Perhaps they did not wait long enough for it to show up? Due to the long dry time, patience is key with this ink. I've waited more than a week to finally see that blue develop. And while not being as bad as some heavy sheeners (OS Nitrogen, Walden, etc.), Sunspot does take a long time to cure completely, if it ever does. I have racks of paper trays like an assembly line of freshly inked pages in various states of dryness. Some pages of this ink have been sitting in the rack for over a month. I know if I ran my finger over parts of them, the ink would still smudge.

 

So, what to do? Keep those pages in the rack indefinitely? Poor use of space. Spray them with a fixative? I tried that with Krylon. It muted/darkened the colors and killed the sheen. I know this a matte fixative. I'm wondering if the gloss kind would still have the same effect on the colors? Enamel gloss does not work. Is the acrylic gloss the answer? I'd appreciate any feedback from someone with experience using this stuff.

 

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Well, that ink splash / spray is amazing.  I don't know about the paint.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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That looks like an amazing ink very well worth testing and possibly lots of fun to use. Thanks for the details.

If you are to be ephemeral, leave a good scent.

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Beautiful review and great photography ! Thank you so much for doing this :thumbup:

I usually discard black inks as "hmmphh... not interesting", but this review shows that at least some blacks have tremendous potential and can be real fun to work with. Time to revisit those blacks that are hidden at the bottom of my ink stash 😉

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