EFNIR: Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-peki

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

If you like a Pilot Iroshizuku ink whose name begins with “Tsu”, buy it now while you still can, I tell ya!

[yazeh]

@LizEF wise words of experience. I have so many bottles that I would gladly throw away, these are just taking too much space.  if I had know samples. Once I ordered a mystery sample and discovered the color brown. At first I hated the color (Polar Brown) and now I own a bottle. Same goes with murky greens. I find the color soothing and propitious for creative writing.

Ironically, one of the most sought-after ink characteristics, shading, leaves me indifferent. I found it too distracting and appreciated "flat" colors. 

Ink reviewing and fountain pen art has helped me stretch out of my comfort zone and see ink in a different perspective.

The few times I've used water color, I realize how ink is capricious and difficult to control. 

What a fun thread. 🙏

 

[LizEF]

45 minutes ago, yazeh said:

@LizEF wise words of experience. I have so many bottles that I would gladly throw away, these are just taking too much space.  if I had know samples. Once I ordered a mystery sample and discovered the color brown. At first I hated the color (Polar Brown) and now I own a bottle. Same goes with murky greens. I find the color soothing and propitious for creative writing.

  Yeah, brown is another color I really like - but that, I would have guessed from the start.   If I could only have three colors, they'd be blue-black, murky green, and brown.  But thank heaven I don't have to have only three colors.

 

46 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Ironically, one of the most sought-after ink characteristics, shading, leaves me indifferent.

Blasphemy!  

 

46 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I found it too distracting and appreciated "flat" colors.

🥱😴

 

47 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Ink reviewing and fountain pen art has helped me stretch out of my comfort zone and see ink in a different perspective.

 Yes!  If you want to really know what you enjoy and what you don't, review!

 

47 minutes ago, yazeh said:

The few times I've used water color, I realize how ink is capricious and difficult to control. 

 This is good to know.  I hadn't thought about it, but it makes sense.  The watercolors would be designed to give you one color (with water offering a range, but still the same hue).  Inks, on the other hand, can surprise you once the water hits.  

 

48 minutes ago, yazeh said:

What a fun thread. 🙏

[LizEF]

Just now, LizEF said:

 Yes!  If you want to really know what you enjoy and what you don't, review!

Also, if you want to cure your FOMO and obsessions, review.  After a couple hundred inks, you mostly stop obsessing and worrying about finding the perfect shade.

[inkstainedruth]

9 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

It wasn't.

 

Ina-ho, Tsukushi, and Tsuyu-kusa were the first to be replaced in the Pilot Iroshizuku line-up.

 

Kiri-same, Kosumosu, and Tsutsuji were in the second tranche of colours purged.

 

If you like a Pilot Iroshizuku ink whose name begins with “Tsu”, buy it now while you still can, I tell ya!

I know I have a bottle of Tsuyu-kusa someplace; and think I might have a sample of Tsutsuji as well.  Really sad about Kosumosu.  

I don't know whether the "retired" colors were because they didn't sell well, or because they started having trouble getting the ingredients during the pandemic, or what.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

🥱😴

I'm like a cat and a laser beam when I write. With "Shading" or similar inks, I get easily distracted by the visual quality of the ink, its beauty, or special properties. It's like when a painter is fascinated by the brushstrokes and forgets the painting. I hope it makes sense. 😊

 

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

makes sense.  The watercolors would be designed to give you one color (with water offering a range, but still the same hue).  Inks, on the other hand, can surprise you once the water hits.  

You can paint easily layer over layer with water colour. With ink no dice.  It's like learning to write with a quill, instead of a fountain pen. 😂