De Atramentis Artist Red

[yazeh]

 

 

 

Like it’s document sibling, Artist red reminds me of watermelon juice or coral red to quote @lapis 

I honestly cannot see much of variation between the two. If you need a document red ink go for the sibling, if not Artist is fine. The bottles are different, Artist is 50 ml. 

Let's start with the chroma:

 

 

Writing samples:

I used the same poem by Mark Nepo, which you find here.

If you use a wet flex pen on this paper, you'll have a bit of ghosting and bleed through. 

Photo (Tomoe River Paper)

 

Comparison with De Atramentis Document red

 

Comparison:

Watertest

And finally some art work:

Prince of Cards...

Pentel brush pen - De Atramentis Artist Red..

 

Happy birthday 

Pentel brush pen. 

J Herbin Bouton d'or

and De Atramentis Artist Red

 

· Pens used: Pilot Kakuna Ef/Stub, Kaweco (EF/Reverse BB/M/B/BB), Kanwrite Ultraflex, 

· What I liked: Teaching me to write with a feather hand, very easy to clean. Worked well with the pilot stub...

· What I did not like: Not much lubricated, palish red, good for art work

· What some might not like: Dryish, the colour.

· Shading: None.

· Ghosting: Faint on copy paper. If you're heavy handed.

· Bleed through: None

· Flow Rate: Wet.

· Lubrication: It won’t make your scratchy nib glide. 

· Nib Dry-out: No.

· Start-up: No.

· Saturation: No.

· Shading Potential: Dismal

· Sheen: None

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: None.

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: A bit

· Staining (pen): No.

· Clogging: No.

· Cleaning: Easy. Like most pigment inks the more it stays in the pne the more you need to soak. But I didn’t need to use pen flush. 

· Water resistance: Excellent. 

· Availability: 50 ml bottles.

 

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

 

 

 

 

[lapis]

They really look the same. Maybe they are the same. Of all of the dozens to hundreds of ink companies, DeA seems to have the biggest number of dupes. Especially when it come to authors etc.

 

[LizEF]

Wait, I would have sworn you already reviewed this!  Did you do another DA Document & Artist pair?  You must have and I've forgotten the color.  Well, anyway....

 

Love the painter kitty.  Laughing at the frosted kitty cat cake!  (But a little horrified, too.)  And the prince of cards certainly looks the part.

 

Thank you for another thorough review of an ink that doesn't really inspire - your review makes it enjoyable anyway.

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, lapis said:

They really look the same. Maybe they are the same.

They are not! Apparently the Artists inks can be tampered with chemically! That's the difference

 

1 hour ago, lapis said:

Of all of the dozens to hundreds of ink companies, DeA seems to have the biggest number of dupes. Especially when it come to authors etc.

 

Yeah. It's a pity! 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

Wait, I would have sworn you already reviewed this!  Did you do another DA Document & Artist pair?  You must have and I've forgotten the color.  Well, anyway....

Nope. It was the Document Red. I thought I do them back to back, unfortunately they are too similar

 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

Love the painter kitty.  Laughing at the frosted kitty cat cake!  (But a little horrified, too.)  And the prince of cards certainly looks the part.

Yep. It's a little nod. I have a little more tamer one than this version.

 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

Thank you for another thorough review of an ink that doesn't really inspire - your review makes it enjoyable anyway.

🙏

[LizEF]

56 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Nope. It was the Document Red. I thought I do them back to back, unfortunately they are too similar

I think I must be thinking of Cyan.  I know you just did Document Red, but I thought you'd done the Artist one weeks ago, so I must be thinking of another color.  Checking.... Yeah, you did both Cyan and Turquoise pairs too.  I think I'm just remembering those (without remembering the color ).

[yazeh]

4 minutes ago, LizEF said:

I think I must be thinking of Cyan.  I know you just did Document Red, but I thought you'd done the Artist one weeks ago, so I must be thinking of another color.  Checking.... Yeah, you did both Cyan and Turquoise pairs too.  I think I'm just remembering those (without remembering the color ).

Glad the mystery is resolved. In the end I had to resort to an Excel sheet, so I won't get confused myself either

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Glad the mystery is resolved. In the end I had to resort to an Excel sheet, so I won't get confused myself either

  So many inks....

[namrehsnoom]

Great review as always @yazeh. Love the birthday cake 😉

But not my type of red - a bit too rose-pink for me. I prefer my reds more dark & bloody.

[yazeh]

23 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

Great review as always @yazeh. Love the birthday cake 😉

🙏

23 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

But not my type of red - a bit too rose-pink for me. I prefer my reds more dark & bloody.

Me too