EFNIR: Diplomat Pine Tree

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Diplomat Pine Tree

This is review #266 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Looks like this is Octopus Fluids Pinie.  Apparently inspired by the Mediterranean pine.  It's a red-leaning brown, though not as red as many of my other browns, and sometimes it even seems slightly green-leaning (which ought to be impossible).  Whatever it is, it's an interesting brown.  Cleaning was pretty easy with plain water but it did take some extra flushes - a pen flush would have sped it up.

Zoomed in photo (Very close to what my eyes see.)

Screenshot (Color is a little too dark.)

Scan of Completed Review (Very close to what my eyes see.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Fairly close, maybe a little dark.)

Line width (One of the lines used for dry time. Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 280µm. With 266 inks measured, the average line width is 296µm.) (Nice fine line. :))

Microscope image (400x. Taken with smart phone. Couldn't get much in focus at the same time. The smear was mostly boring, but this bunch of bubbles (or whatever) was interesting. It had a slight greenish hue in with the oranges and yellows.)

Doodle (The alternating horizontal and vertical lines in the background are Diplomat Pine Tree. Jars and line are Pilot Mixable Colour Black. Swirls under the line, oil, and flour from the jars are Robert Oster Gold Antiqua. It's titled 1 Kings 17:8-16, after the story told therein.  I couldn't figure out how to draw containers that never run out, so I drew them overflowing.  Under the black line on which the containers sit are a bunch of circles and swirls meant to represent sticks, looking at the end grain.  The alternating line pattern is just for filling in the space, it doesn't represent anything in particular.)

Previous Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Black.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[knarflj]

Good old Essri!  Glad to see him back and well.

 

The ink is not my colour, but I like the microscope image--reminds me of a Hubble shot--and the doodle.

[LizEF]

11 minutes ago, knarflj said:

Good old Essri!  Glad to see him back and well.

 

11 minutes ago, knarflj said:

The ink is not my colour, ...

I promise not to send you any.

 

11 minutes ago, knarflj said:

but I like the microscope image--reminds me of a Hubble shot--and the doodle.

Thank you!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Hold the phone!  It's BROWN.  An ink named Pine needs to be GREEN. (Although the line width looks like a pine tree trunk, so I will grant that.)

 

And white, egg-shaped magic dripping from a glowing galaxy of sparkle orange.  The Source, mayhap?

 

I do like the color but it's very similar to Noodler's 41 Brown, which now resides in a mango colored Jinhao-fari.  I LOVE the doodle, the extras, and the story.  Hooray, Essri!  ('Only a fool fights in a burning house.' - The great Kang, Klingon Commander and honorable nemesis of The Kirk).*

 

Happy New Year, @LizEF, and many thanks for making Tuesdays special.

 

 

*….yes, my Star Trek is showing…

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Hold the phone!  It's BROWN.  An ink named Pine needs to be GREEN. (Although the line width looks like a pine tree trunk, so I will grant that.)

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

And white, egg-shaped magic dripping from a glowing galaxy of sparkle orange.  The Source, mayhap?

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I LOVE the doodle, the extras, and the story.

Thank you!

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Hooray, Essri!  ('Only a fool fights in a burning house.' - The great Kang, Klingon Commander and honorable nemesis of The Kirk).*

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Happy New Year, @LizEF, and many thanks for making Tuesdays special.

Happy New Year, @Sailor Kenshin!  You're very welcome!

[yazeh]

Another excellent review @LizEF with the re-th-urrection of our beloved Th-nek.  It's fun to see him becoming buddies with Viscount- E (Vithcount- E to be more prethise)

Like @Sailor Kenshin it reminded me of Noodler's, though my most used Polar Brown. And I believe it's identical to Octopus Pine, which I assume it alludes to the color of Pine cones

I love the microscopic image and fast dry times. I tired my hand at doodling your style with Jonah and the whale, and it sort of fell flat

 

Thanks for making the first Tuesday of this New Year, fresh, hopeful and joyful! Looking forward to the next Tuesday

 

[LizEF]

39 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Another excellent review @LizEF with the re-th-urrection of our beloved Th-nek.  It's fun to see him becoming buddies with Viscount- E (Vithcount- E to be more prethise)

Thank you!    Who knows, this could be the seed that grows into some future adventure.

 

40 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Like @Sailor Kenshin it reminded me of Noodler's, though my most used Polar Brown. And I believe it's identical to Octopus Pine, which I assume it alludes to the color of Pine cones

Well, I'll get to compare it when I review Polar Brown!   I didn't think about the cones - I figured they were referencing the trunk, but perhaps it is the cones.  And yes, I think it is exactly the same ink as Octopus Fluids "Pinie", just packaged differently.

 

52 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I love the microscopic image and fast dry times.

Thanks!

 

52 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I tired my hand at doodling your style with Jonah and the whale, and it sort of fell flat

  I recommend starting without any sort of image template.  The key is just to fill a space with a repeating pattern.  Here's my first doodle in the style of Zentangles (link because it won't show http:// images).  Not great, not awful.  You just have to learn how to make the pattern - if you google for "zentangle pattern", there are lots of examples and some that show you how to draw the more complex ones.  I used to do them while "watching" TV, but hardly do that anymore, and don't seem to have time to doodle either.  Anyway, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it if you want to.   (Pointless to bother if you don't.)

 

58 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for making the first Tuesday of this New Year, fresh, hopeful and joyful! Looking forward to the next Tuesday

You're most welcome!   And thank you!

[yazeh]

22 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Thank you!    Who knows, this could be the seed that grows into some future adventure.

Aha!

22 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Well, I'll get to compare it when I review Polar Brown!

According to Anderson Pens, it's quite close to Polar Brown!

22 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

  I recommend starting without any sort of image template. 

I rarely use a template

 

22 minutes ago, LizEF said:

The key is just to fill a space with a repeating pattern.  Here's my first doodle in the style of Zentangles (link because it won't show http:// images).  Not great, not awful. 

It's lovely!

22 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

You just have to learn how to make the pattern - if you google for "zentangle pattern", there are lots of examples and some that show you how to draw the more complex ones.  I used to do them while "watching" TV, but hardly do that anymore, and don't seem to have time to doodle either.  Anyway, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it if you want to.   (Pointless to bother if you don't.)

I'l check it out!

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

It's lovely!

Thank you!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

I'l check it out!

Hope you enjoy.  They can be very relaxing, and very satisfying when done.

[InesF]

Thank you @LizEF for the ink review and for releasing some tension from the story. My nighttime sleep will improve a lot now...  

 

The Diplomat / Octopus Fluid inks are a nice extension of standard inks without airs and graces and suitable for all "work" purposes. It's these properties why I like those range of inks so much.

 

I love your drawing - and all the inks you used there. The Pilot black shows it's brown undertone much better than in the last written review - may it is better in praxis than what the name black promises. I see there some similarity with the Rohrer & Klingner Ebony ink, which should be black but isn't after a careful second look. 🤫

 

Looking forward to the next steps of the now again complete adventurer group. 😄

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you @LizEF for the ink review and for releasing some tension from the story. My nighttime sleep will improve a lot now...  

  You're very welcome!  Sorry for any nightmares or lack of sleep!

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

The Diplomat / Octopus Fluid inks are a nice extension of standard inks without airs and graces and suitable for all "work" purposes. It's these properties why I like those range of inks so much.

I've really liked the ones I've reviewed so far.

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

I love your drawing - and all the inks you used there. The Pilot black shows it's brown undertone much better than in the last written review - may it is better in praxis than what the name black promises. I see there some similarity with the Rohrer & Klingner Ebony ink, which should be black but isn't after a careful second look. 🤫

Thank you!  I wonder, though, if any brown undertone in the Pilot ink isn't caused by the digitization process - when cleaning the pen, pipette, slide, etc. there was a definite blue color, and nothing else.  Though I didn't do a chroma, so I suppose there could be other colors in there...

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to the next steps of the now again complete adventurer group. 😄

[yazeh]

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

Hope you enjoy.  They can be very relaxing, and very satisfying when done.

I hope so too, repetitive tasks drive me nuts

 

[LizEF]

20 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I hope so too, repetitive tasks drive me nuts

Well, if this one drives you nuts, then you should probably stop.  The theory is that the, basically mindless, repeated pattern drawing shifts your brainwaves to a particular frequency (I forget which, but it's the meditative one) and thereby relaxes and refreshes...  But if it's not doing that for you, then it's probably not for you...