Organics Studio Ernest's Vintage Writing Fluid Oscar's Copper

[yazeh]

This is my 3rd and last mystery ink in my blind test from the Fpgeeks site. 

 

The name is a mouthful

 

According to Penchalet: 

 

The Vintage series of inks are made using vintage, yet simple ink formulas that are PH neutral, and hassle or clog free inks. They are designed to be easy to clean even if the ink is left in a pen for an extended period of time.

 

As of now there are three colours in the vintage series, Blue Merle, Scarlett and Oscar’s Copper.

 

I didn't like the high sheening inks of Organics Studio. I found them distracting. But with this ink, I'm tempted to be enticed by the brand again

 

However, the hassle free claim did not materialize.  It took a day of flushing, soaking and finally pen flush to clean Lamy Safari, where the ink had taken residence for at least a month.

Paradoxically, the cartridge was very easy to clean, a few flushes with a syringe and it was clean as a whistle. I put it on the colour. Pink/ Red inks are notoriously difficult to clean, they are clingy and love to stick to every nook and cranny of a pen. 

 

So my recommendation is to use this ink in a pen that can be easily dismantled and not a piston filler

 

Lets start with the gorgeous chroma:

Writing Samples:

As this was a blind test, my texts are not regrettably not from Oscar Wilde. The first three samples are from The Song of Songs translated by Ariel and Chana Bloch. 

Note how the colour changes depending on the paper and nib size. 

A couple of photos:

The brown ink is Yama-guri, the blue, Pilot Blue-Black.

 

Comparison (Mystery 53 is Oscar's Copper)

Watertest:

A little sketch:

It's inspired by Swan of Tuonela inspired from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. I don't recall the black ink, but it could be Platinum Carbon Black. 

 

 

This was inspired by @LizEF 's The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh, magical texts, aka, message papers in this episode:

The text was written with glass nib, dipped in bleach:

 

 

  

· Pens used: Lamy Safari (Reverse Ef/EF/F/M/B), Kanwrite Ultraflex, Jinhao 450 

· What I liked: Multiple personality ink. Very fast dry times even with broad nibs, lovely/ chameleon colour, lovely shading

· What I did not like: You might have Startup issues if the pen is left uncapped, and cleaning (It's a red ink after all, what do you expect )

· What some might not like: Same as above.

· Shading: Yes

· Ghosting: None, only if you insist on writing on cheap paper with wet wide nib. 

· Bleed through: None

· Flow Rate: Wet

· Lubrication: Excellent

· Nib Dry-out: No

· Start-up: No

· Saturation: Nice brick red

· Shading Potential: With wide nibs

· Sheen: No

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: No

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: No.

· Staining (pen): No

· Clogging: No

· Cleaning: I had to finally resort to a pen flush twice. It took a day to clean. But the Jinhao was much easier and faster to clean.

· Water resistance: Debatable 😛

· Availability: 55 ml bottles. 

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

 

[LizEF]

Thank you for the review, @yazeh!  It's an interesting ink with the shade varying so much with the pens and papers used.  I suspect I would like it.  It doesn't look very coppery to me, though.    Fun rendering of Quin's message paper, and of course the poor half-soaked kitty.   Klaw is now pondering roast swan...

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

Thank you for the review, @yazeh!  It's an interesting ink with the shade varying so much with the pens and papers used.  @LizEf 🙏 It's a chameleon of ink. 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

  I suspect I would like it. 

Me too!

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

 

It doesn't look very coppery to me, though.   

Now whose being difficult 😛

 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

 

Fun rendering of Quin's message paper, and of course the poor half-soaked kitty.  

 

I'm still wondering how magical texts are done, by scrolls

 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

Klaw is now pondering roast swan...

Nope. Cheeseburgers!

 

[LizEF]

19 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Now whose being difficult 😛

 

19 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I'm still wondering how magical texts are done, by scrolls

If you weren't wondering, it would be science or technology rather than magic!

 

20 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Nope. Cheeseburgers!

[yazeh]

11 minutes ago, LizEF said:

If you weren't wondering, it would be science or technology rather than magic!

You mean the orb is the estranged sibling of Terminator

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

You mean the orb is the estranged sibling of Terminator

 

[InesF]

Thank you, @yazeh, for the exciting inktroduction. It's always a pleasure to see inks presented that way with varying writing styles and with drawing/painting extensions. 

 

The colour reminds me more of Burgundy than of copper - which I like.

 

I also like your interpretation of the magical scroll which seems to hide something between the visible and stays unreadable for the non-magical fountain pen user!  

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thanks, @yazeh, for another of your womderful ink comparisons.  I like how your nib/writing was able to show color variations.  (Mine wasn't, it was a fine nib.). Love the drawings too!

 

That dried polynose (what we called these maple things as kids) adds a nice artistic touch.  When they are fresh, we used to split the seed part and stick them on our noses, hence the name.  🤣

[yazeh]

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @yazeh, for the exciting inktroduction. It's always a pleasure to see inks presented that way with varying writing styles and with drawing/painting extensions. 

🙏

7 hours ago, InesF said:

 

The colour reminds me more of Burgundy than of copper - which I like.

It's a really handsome colour!

7 hours ago, InesF said:

 

I also like your interpretation of the magical scroll which seems to hide something between the visible and stays unreadable for the non-magical fountain pen user!  

Glad you liked that I'm not sure, you know who ( @LizEF) totally agrees. My interpretation of the Orb sent shock waves

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks, @yazeh, for another of your womderful ink comparisons.  I like how your nib/writing was able to show color variations.  (Mine wasn't, it was a fine nib.). Love the drawings too!

You're so kind 🙏

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

That dried polynose (what we called these maple things as kids) adds a nice artistic touch.  When they are fresh, we used to split the seed part and stick them on our noses, hence the name.  🤣

Ah. I get the meaning behind the word now. I was inspired to take the photo outside. I love adding organic objects, like dried or fresh flowers. It gives life to the paper, if you know what I mean

 

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, yazeh said:

My interpretation of the Orb sent shock waves

@yazeh was channeling his inner Dalí.

[SashK]

Can't tell if I like it. A red ink that can't sheen...

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

@yazeh was channeling his inner Dalí.

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Smile - dude was famous. 

[yazeh]

19 hours ago, SashK said:

Can't tell if I like it. A red ink that can't sheen...

 

https://vanness1938.com/collections/sheen-inks-main?sort_by=best-selling&filter.p.m.my_fields.color_=red&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=

[yazeh]

18 hours ago, LizEF said:

Smile - dude was famous. 

 

Ok. I channeled by inner Dali, as you're doing your inner Tolkien 😛

You tell me if you recognize the scene:

Red ink is Oscar's Copper,

Black is J Herbin Perle Noir

And the blue is a mixture of Sketchink Klara & Marlene

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Ok. I channeled by inner Dali, as you're doing your inner Tolkien 😛

 

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

You tell me if you recognize the scene:

I believe we have Quin collapsed into sleep with Makhabesh and Essri watching over him. Essri's awfully brave to go into that blood-red water!   (If it relates to a specific Dali painting, I don't know it, but then, I didn't really like his paintings, so I'm not that familiar with them beyond the more commonly known ones - mostly, I just know they're weird... )

[Sailor Kenshin]

Dali had a few paintings with boats, most of them eerie.  
 

I never saw a Dali painting in real life, apart from his enormous 'Crucifixion,' under which I stood awestruck until I had to be dragged away.

[yazeh]

13 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

 

I believe we have Quin collapsed into sleep with Makhabesh and Essri watching over him.

 

13 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

Essri's awfully brave to go into that blood-red water!   (If it relates to a specific Dali painting, I don't know it, but then, I didn't really like his paintings, so I'm not that familiar with them beyond the more commonly known ones - mostly, I just know they're weird... )

Nope. No Dali. I was so inspired by your scene I did a few drafts. Then I started colouring and experimenting ( a bit to much) and I nearly threw it away. It looks like a mess, especially after the brushing with bleach. But then you had mentioned, the haunted Island, I thought why not, maybe it's a ghost of Moby Dick

 

[yazeh]

11 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Dali had a few paintings with boats, most of them eerie.  

I had not seen those. They are indeed striking!

11 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I never saw a Dali painting in real life, apart from his enormous 'Crucifixion,' under which I stood awestruck until I had to be dragged away.

It must have been an experience 😇

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, yazeh said:

 

Nope. No Dali. I was so inspired by your scene I did a few drafts. Then I started colouring and experimenting ( a bit to much) and I nearly threw it away. It looks like a mess, especially after the brushing with bleach. But then you had mentioned, the haunted Island, I thought why not, maybe it's a ghost of Moby Dick

 

I did wonder about that dark shadow under the boat, if perhaps something was lurking there...